Sofia Bohdanowicz is a graduate of York University’s MFA programme in Film Production and an alumna of Berlinale Talents and Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Accelerator. Her films have been celebrated at major international festivals including BFI London, New York, Berlinale, Locarno, Toronto, and HotDocs. She gained early acclaim with her debut feature, Never Eat Alone, which won the Emerging Filmmaker Award at Vancouver in 2016. Subsequent accolades include the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2017 and a Rogers Prize nomination for her documentary Maison du bonheur in 2018.

Her third feature, MS Slavic 7, premiered at Berlinale, graced the cover of Cinema Scope and Página/12, and was showcased at the Harvard Film Archive. Her fourth feature, A Woman Escapes, co-directed with Burak Çevik and Blake Williams, received an honorable mention for the CNAP prize at FIDMarseille. Her short film Point and Line to Plane was awarded Best International Short Film at the Las Palmas Gran Canaria Festival. Her most recent film, Measures for a Funeral, in the festival programme this year, which premiered at Toronto within the Centerpiece programme.

As an acclaimed Toronto-based filmmaker recognised for her distinctive storytelling and contributions to Canadian cinema, Sofia Bohdanowicz was named one of The Globe and Mail’s '22 Most Influential People in Canadian Film’.