Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto, she is the founder of the production company MAISON DU BONHEUR. She has had focuses of her work presented at BAFICI, Punto de Vista, Cinemateca de Bogotà, DocLisboa, and Festival du nouveau cinéma. In 2017, the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded her the Jay Scott Prize and in 2018 she was nominated for the Rogers Prize for Best Canadian Film for her documentary Maison du bonheur. Her third feature film, MS Slavic 7, graced the cover of Cinema Scope (and the Argentinian newspaper Página/12), premiered at the Berlinale and was featured at the Harvard Film Archive. Bohdanowicz is an MFA graduate of York University’s Film Production program, an alumni of Berlinale Talents as well as the TIFF Talent Accelerator. Her fourth feature titled A Woman Escapes, a co-direction with filmmakers Burak Çevik and Blake Williams which won the Churubusco Prize at FICUNAM’s rough-cut workshop, CATAPULTA. The film had its World Premiere in International Competition at FIDMarseille and received an honourable mention for the CNAP prize. She was named as one of “The 22 Most Influential People in Canadian Film” by Barry Hertz in the Globe and Mail and was named one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 for their class of 2024. Her new feature Measures for a Funeral which won the Kodak and Silverway Award during FIDMarseille’s co-production lab will premiere in TIFF in the Centrepiece programme September. Currently, her films are available to view on the Criterion Channel, DAFilms, Tënk, and Kanopy.