''Ben's at Home'' is a 2014 Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by

Mars Horodyski Mars Horodyski is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. She is most noted as director and co-writer of the 2014 film '' Ben's at Home'', for which she won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Direction in ...

. The film stars Dan Abramovici as Ben, a man who responds to an emotional breakup on the eve of his 30th birthday by rearranging his life so that he will never have to leave his apartment again, only to have his desire to live as a hermit challenged when he and Jess (Jessica Embro), a regular driver for his food delivery service, develop a romantic interest in each other. The cast also includes Jim Annan, Rob Baker, Craig Brown and Inessa Frantowski. The film was shot in August 2013 on a budget of just $20,000, half funded by Horodyski and Abramovici and half by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The film premiered in April 2014 at the

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. It had its Canadian premiere at the

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.Brendan Kelly
"FFM: Like their protagonist, Toronto filmmakers quick to create"
''

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'', August 28, 2014.

Awards

At Houston, the film won the award for Best Comedy Feature. It won the award for Best Feature Film at the 2014

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, and the award for Best Feature Film at the 2015

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. Horodyski won the

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for Best Direction in a Film at the

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.Greg David
"22 Minutes and Samantha Bee among Canadian Comedy Award winners"
''TV, eh?'', September 15, 2015.

References

External links

* 2014 films 2014 comedy films Canadian romantic comedy films Canadian independent films English-language Canadian films 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub