Featured Voices – Page 5

A71 acquires Canadian distribution for WIDC Feature Film Award winner Marie Clements’ Red Snow

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, ON - October, 2019 - Following World Premiere screenings at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Edmonton International Film Festival in September and the recent screening at the 2019 ImagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto, Canadian distributor A-71 has acquired Canadian theatrical distribution rights to acclaimed Métis-Dene playwright/director/producer/ screenwriter Marie Clements’ narrative feature debut Red Snow. A71 [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:26:34-07:00November 1st, 2019|Categories: Back Stories, feature film, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: A71, APTN, Canada Media Fund, CBC Films, Creative BC, Marie Clements, Red Snow, Telefilm Canada|

WIDC Alumnae at 30th St John’s International Women’s Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 11, 2019 - WIDC alumnae are playing a huge part of this year's 30th annual St John's International Women's Film Festival. This is an historic must see must be at event at one of the world's oldest and highly respected women's film festivals. Six WIDC alumnae-directed feature films are screening including the opening and closing [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:26:24-07:00October 10th, 2019|Categories: Back Stories, Media Release, Outreach, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Black Conflux, Body and Bones, Deanne Foley, Emily Bridger, Honey Bee, Jordan Canning, Karen Lam, Kathleen Hepburn, Latonia Hartery, Lori Lozinski, Lulu Keating, Martine Blue, Mary Walsh, Melanie Oates, Nicole Dorsey, Rustic Oracle, Sherry White, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Stephanie Morgenstern, Tamara Sagura, Telefilm Ca, Telefilm Canada, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, Winnifred Jong|

WIDC Announces Career Advancement Module Director Participants St John’s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 2019: Women In the Director's Chair organizers are pleased to announce the four women directors selected to take part in the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place during the 30th annual St John's International Women's Film Festival, October 15 to 20, 2019. This session of the CAM includes actor/filmmakers from both [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:16:19-07:00October 10th, 2019|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Caarol Whiteman, CBC Films, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kerrin Rafuse, Lulu Keating, Molly Flood, Penny Eizenga, Renee Hackett, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Susan Curran, Telefilm Canada|

WIDC Announces 2019 BANFF Fellowship Recipients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 5, 2019 - WIDC organizers are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 WIDC BANFF Fellowship sponsored by Telefilm Canada. WIDC alumnae Cjay Boisclair and Melanee Murray Hunt will attend the BANFF World Media Festival, June 9 to 12, 2019. Cjay Boisclair is the recipient of the 2018 WIDC Short Works Award: Kamloops edition [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:16:41-07:00June 5th, 2019|Categories: Awards & Accolades, BANFF Fellowship, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Banff World Media Fellowship, Cjay-Boisclair, Melanee Murray-Hunt, Telefilm Canada|

Four Western-based Directors Selected for WIDC Career Advancement Module Vancouver

Collaborating with Women In Film and Television Vancouver FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -March 2019: Four western-based women directors have been selected to partake in the next edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place during the Vancouver International Women In Film Festival, March 5 to 10, 2019. Aiming to generate career momentum while they develop pitch [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:16:57-07:00March 3rd, 2019|Categories: Career Advancement, Featured Voices, Media Release, Outreach, Program Announcements, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: A-71, Annelise Larson, Carol Whiteman, Jean Parsons, Michelle Brezinski, Moinque Hurteau, Susan Curran, Suza Singh, Telefilm Canada, TELUS STORYHIVE, WIFTV|

A Tribute to WIDC Alumna, Pepita Ferrari

Pepita and I met at the 1998 WIDC workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts, a meeting that sparked a life long friendship, numerous trips, a multitude of film projects, and more than one wild adventure. The mid-January cold in Banff was literally breathtaking – but we both found the WIDC experience invigorating. Stacey Curtis was our mentor [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-05-29T22:10:24-07:00January 31st, 2019|Categories: Special Tributes, WIDC|Tags: Naomi McCormack, Pepita Ferrari, Tribute, WIDC alumnae|

Shelley Thompson wins WIDC Feature Film Award $200K Prize to be presented at Whistler Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2018) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Shelley Thompson is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2018 national WIDC Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize of services and rentals valued at up to $200K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Nova Scotia-based Thompson, best known for her portrayal of [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:25:07-07:00November 29th, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC Awards|Tags: Keslow Camera, Panavision, Panavision Canada, Poste Moderne, Shelley Thompson, SIM, Walter Lighting and Grip, William F. White International Inc.|

Principal Photography Underway on WIDC Feature Film Award: QUEEN OF THE MORNING CALM, directed by Gloria Ui Young Kim

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, November, 2018 – The latest of three WIDC-supported Feature Film Award films to go to camera this year, Women In the Director’s Chair organizers and Gloryous Productions are delighted to announce that principal photography is underway on Queen of the Morning Calm, a powerful feature-length drama about a single mother and her daughter, and their [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:25:29-07:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Back Stories, feature film, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Eponine Lee, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Jesse LaVercombe, Josh Barsky, Panavision Canada, Shaun Benson, SIM, Sonya Di Rienzo, Tina Jung, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

Announcing the Eight Women Directors Selected for WIDC Story & Leadership – Whistler Film Festival Industry Immersion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 12, 2018 (Vancouver BC) Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian women directors who will attend the highly acclaimed script development and director mentoring program WIDC: Story & Leadership, that takes place in part at the Whistler Film Festival (November 28 to December 2). We also celebrate [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:23:32-07:00November 12th, 2018|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, Anna Cooley, Carolyn Combs, CBC Films, Deanne Foley, Independent Production Fund, JJ Neepin, Jude Klassen, Meeshelle Neal, Michelle Morgan, Mis Fiona Kut, Pamela Gallant, Penny Eizenga, Rama Rau, Shalagh Carter, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, UBCP-ACTRA, Veronika Kurz, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC, Women Directors|

WIDC announces winner of 2018 Short Works Award: Kamloops edition

WIDC announces winner of 2018 Short Works Award: Kamloops edition Supported by TELUS STORYHIVE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 31, 2018: Organizers of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) are pleased to announce that Kamloops-based filmmaker Cjay Beauclair has won the 2018 WIDC Short Works Award Kamloops edition presented in collaboration with TELUS STORYHIVE. Local writer/directors Vesta Giles [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:23:47-07:00October 31st, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Aubrey Fix, Cjay Beauclair, Hayley Gray, Jason Burkhart, Kamloops, Rekha Sharma, Short Works Award, TELUS STORYHIVE, Tracey Power, Vesta Giles|