Ben Petrie is a

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actor and filmmaker. He is most noted as the director of the short film '' Her Friend Adam'',Alex Southey
"Her Friend Adam (Review)"
''Hollywood North Magazine'', January 17, 2017. which premiered at the

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and was named Best Comedy of 2016 by Vimeo. The film was named to the

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's annual year-end

Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema". ''Welland Tribune'', November 23, ...

list for 2016."TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival"

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, December 7, 2016. His feature debut, '' The Heirloom'', premiered in 2024 at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. It was named as one of The 10 Best Canadian Films of 2024 by

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. He is a producer, co-writer and actor of Dead Lover, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He stars in '' Honey Bunch'', which premiered at the

75th Berlin International Film Festival The 75th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place between 13 and 23 February 2025 in Berlin, Germany. American filmmaker Todd Haynes was named the Jury President for the main competition. It marked the f ...

in Berlinale Special. As an actor he has also performed in '' Tito,'' ''

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,'' and ''The All Golden''. He has been in a relationship with his frequent collaborator

Grace Glowicki Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta.Fish Griwkowsky"Edmonton-born actress wins at Sundance" ''Edmonton Journal'', February 2, 2016. Glowicki directed and starred in the feature film ''Tito (2019 film), Tito'' ...

Johanna Schneller Johanna Schneller is an American-born Canadians, Canadian film journalist and television personality, who hosted the film talk show ''The Filmmakers'' on CBC Television. A freelance celebrity interviewer for such publications as ''Vanity Fair (ma ...

"Filmmaker Grace Glowicki on breaking norms and the secret to shooting 13-15 pages of script a day"

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, May 14, 2021.

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