Never Eat Alone


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. It also screened at the Buenos [Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema] as part of a 2017 retrospective of Bohdanowicz's work.

Cast

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