| Never Eat Alone | |
| Director: | Sofia Bohdanowicz |
| Producer: | Calvin Thomas |
| Starring: | Joan Benac Deragh Campbell George Radovics |
| Runtime: | 68 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
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]
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]