Her Friend Adam

{{Infobox film | name = Her Friend Adam | native_name = | image = | caption = | director = Ben Petrie | producer = Kristy Neville | writer = Ben Petrie | starring = Ben Petrie<br>Grace Glowicki<br>Andrew Chown | music = | cinematography = Kelly Jeffrey | editing = Ben Petrie | released = {{film date|2016|01|22|Sundance}} | studio = | runtime = 17 minutes | country = Canada | language = English | budget = }} '''''Her Friend Adam''''' is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Ben Petrie and released in 2016.<ref name=hn>Alex Southey, [http://hnmag.ca/review/her-friend-adam-review-2/ "Her Friend Adam (Review)"]. ''Hollywood North Magazine'', January 17, 2017.</ref> The film stars Petrie as Robert, a man whose insecurities about his relationship with his girlfriend Liv (Grace Glowicki) explode into a fight after he suspects her of having an affair with her friend Adam (Andrew Chown) even though Adam is gay.<ref name=hn/>

The film was inspired in part by Petrie's own experiences of feeling misplaced jealousy in his own real-life relationship with Glowicki.<ref>Stephen Saito, [https://moveablefest.com/ben-petrie-her-friend-adam/ "Interview: Ben Petrie on the Envious Position of 'Her Friend Adam'"]. ''The Moveable Feast'', August 25, 2016.</ref>

The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where Glowicki won a Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance.<ref>[https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/ben-petrie/#.XUsYint7mUk "Twenty Five New Faces of Independent Film: Ben Petrie"]. ''Filmmaker Magazine'', 2016.</ref>

It was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2016.<ref name=topten2016>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-canada-top-10-films-2016-1.3884421 "TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival"]. CBC News, December 7, 2016.</ref>

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Category:2016 films Category:Canadian LGBTQ-related short films Category:2016 LGBTQ-related films Category:2010s LGBTQ-related drama films Category:2016 drama films Category:2016 English-language films Category:Canadian drama short films Category:2016 Canadian films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films directed by Ben Petrie