Never Eat Alone

This article is about the film. For the book, see Keith Ferrazzi.
Never Eat Alone
Film poster
Directed bySofia Bohdanowicz
Written bySofia Bohdanowicz
Produced byCalvin Thomas
StarringJoan Benac
Deragh Campbell
George Radovics
Release date
  • October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02) (VIFF)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Never Eat Alone is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz. The film follows a lonely grandmother as she tries to reconnect with an ex-boyfriend from her youth.

The film premiered in the Future//Present section of the Vancouver International Film Festival on October 2, 2016, where Bohdanowicz won the Emerging Canadian Director award.[1] It also screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema as part of a 2017 retrospective of Bohdanowicz's work.[2]

Cast

  • Joan Benac as herself
  • Deragh Campbell as Audrey Benac
  • George Radovics as Don Radovich

Production

Never Eat Alone is an unorthodox documentary-fiction hybrid. Joan Benac, the grandmother character, is played by Joan Benac, Bohdanowicz's grandmother. Don Radovich, the ex-boyfriend character, is played by George Radovics, the film's producer and Bohdanowicz's partner Calvin Thomas' grandfather.[3]

Deragh Campbell plays Audrey Benac, a character she has inhabited twice since for Bohdanowicz in the films Veslemøy's Song (2018) and MS Slavic 7 (2019).[4] She received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nomination for Best Actress in a Canadian Film for her performance.[5]

References

  1. ^ Cook, Adam (September 22, 2017). "Future//Present Returns to VIFF". VIFF. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Mango, Agustin (March 30, 2017). "Buenos Aires Film Festival Unveils Full Slate". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved Dec 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Garcia, Lawrence (October 2, 2016). "Natural Histories: Sofia Bohdanowicz Discusses Her Debut Feature". MUBI. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  4. ^ Mantagni, Ian (February 20, 2019). "Berlinale first look: MS Slavic 7 draws strength from the written word". Sight and Sound. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  5. ^ "2017 Nominees Announced". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.