MS SLAVIC 7
a film by Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell
FEATURE PRESENTATION
FREE IN-PERSON
+ ONLINE SCREENING
IN-PERSON SCREENING:
MARCH 7, 2022 • 7 PM
@ Halifax Central Library
VIEWABLE ONLINE IN ATLANTIC CANADA
FOR 48 HOURS FOLLOWING IN-PERSON SCREENING
2019 / CANADA / 64 mins
Filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz and actor Deragh Campbell continue their ongoing investigation of collective memory and blurred biography with MS Slavic 7—their first collaboration with shared writer, director, and producer credits. Returning to the character of Audrey Benac [Campbell], now an executor for her late grandmother’s literary estate, the film follows her research down the rabbit hole of her family history and into the murk of her own identity. With her docu-lyrical visual style, Bohdanowicz offers a soft translucence to the movements of memory and belonging at play in the legacy of immigration. While maybe posing more questions than answers, MS Slavic 7 is a profound illumination—leaving the kind of indelible impressions that invite us to think directly about, among so much else, what we talk about when we talk about “after-images.”
—Seán Galway
TRAILER
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto and the founder of the production company MAISON DU BONHEUR. She has had retrospectives of her work screened at BAFICI, The Seattle Northwest Film Forum, 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.
Deragh Campbell
Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actor and writer. She has starred in numerous independent films such as Fail to Appear, Stinking Heaven and I Used to be Darker. For her most recent performance in Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000ft, she received a nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role from the Canadian Screen Awards. She co-wrote, co-directed and starred in MS Slavic 7 with Sofia Bohdanowicz, which premiered at the 2019 Berlinale. She was selected as a 2015 Rising Star at the Toronto International Film Festival, received a 2017 Macdowell Fellowship for screenwriting and was awarded the 2019 Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize for emerging film talent from the Toronto Critics Association.