Ben Petrie is a Canadian independent filmmaker. He has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s annual series, 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

He wrote, directed & performed in Her Friend Adam. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance for Grace Glowicki. The film was later named One of the Best Pieces of Pop Culture of the Year by The A.V. Club, and the Best Comedy of The Year by Vimeo.

More recently, Ben performed in and produced Tito, a feature-length dramatic comedy. The film premiered at SXSW, where it won the Adam Yauch Hornblower Award. The film was later named “an instant classic of acting” by The New Yorker.

Ben’s feature length directorial debut The Heirloom is having its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024.

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