Program Announcements

Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada Sponsors Women In the Director’s Chair to attend 2023 Whistler Film Festival: Announcing Eight Directors Selected for Story & Leadership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2023 (Vancouver BC) For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) will present an in-person Industry Immersion at the Whistler Film Festival through a director-focused sponsorship provided by Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada. From BC: Amy Bohigian, Impact Doc Award winner (Only In Nelson) is developing [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-12-13T12:11:52-08:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership, Uncategorized, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA National, AFBS, Amy Bohigian, bruna arbex, Creative BC, Giselle Miller, Independent Production Fund, Jenny Lee-Gilmore, Jules Koostachin, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marielle Quesney, Marjan Hashemi, Nimisha Mukerji, Shelly Hong, Sunny Mohajer, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA, Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada, Whistler Film Festival, Yasmine Mathurin|

Directors Announced for WIDC Career Advancement Module Fall 2023

Pictured (L-R): Martina Monro, Teresa Alfeld, Kathleen Cummins, Rosie Choo Pidcock 2nd Row: Shonna Foster, Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt, Eva Tavares, Émilie Martel FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2023: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organisers are pleased to announce the eight women and non-binary directors selected to take part in this session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM), presented [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-12-02T18:10:24-08:00October 4th, 2023|Categories: Career Advancement, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Career Advancement Module, Emilie Martel, Eva Tavares, Kathleen Cummins, Kim Albright, Marie Clements, Martina Monro, Michelle D'Alessandro Hatt, Rama Rau, Reelworld Film Festival, Reelworld Screen Institute, reelworld Summit, Rosie Choo Pidcock, Ruth Lawrence, Shonna Foster, SJIWFF, Telefilm Canada, Teresa Alfeld, WIDC|

WIDC Presents Alumnae Awards at 27th Edition Launch Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2023, Vancouver, BC. – The 27th annual Launch Event of the acclaimed Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), held June 8, 2023 presented two awards to BC-based alumnae, and announced the call for submissions for the 2023-24 slate of WIDC programming. Hayley Gray is the 2023 recipient of the WIDC BANFF Fellowship Award. Made possible through [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-06-12T08:50:19-07:00June 12th, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, BANFF Fellowship, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Media Release, Program Announcements, Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Program, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Banff World Media Fellowship, Banff World Media Festival, Giselle Miller, Hayley Gray, IPF, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA|

Women In the Director’s Chair Launches 25th Anniversary including new collaboration with Reelworld Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2021 – Kicking off the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), organizers are delighted to announce that the Reelworld Film Institute / Reelworld Film Festival will become an official community collaborator. Together with the St John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF), the three organizations will co-present the Fall 2021 Online [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-14T23:07:44-07:00June 11th, 2021|Categories: Equity Diversity Inclusion, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Career Advancement, Reelworld Film Festival, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Story & Leadership, Telefilm Canada, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC|

Joy Haskell to receive 2021 WIDC Banff World Media Festival Fellowship

Vancouver, Canada (May 2021) – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce that BC-based Indigenous filmmaker, Joy Haskell is the 2021 recipient of the WIDC Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) Fellowship. Made possible through a long-standing partnership, the fellowship is designed to provide one WIDC alumna the opportunity to network and advance her projects at [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:38:51-07:00May 7th, 2021|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anita Doron, Banff World Media Festival, Carol Whiteman, Carole Ducharme, Cjay-Boisclair, Jenn Kuzmyk, Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, Joy Haskell, Kathleen Hepburn, Leslie Ann Coles, Melanee Murray-Hunt, Paula Kelly, Sharon Lewis, Veronica Tennant|

Eight directors selected for WIDC’s Career Advancement Module: collaborating with Vancouver International Women in Film Festival and Female Eye Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 2021: Women In the Director’s Chair organizers are pleased to announce the eight women directors selected to take part in the latest WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). This edition of the CAM marks a first-ever combined collaboration with two of Canada's international women's film festivals, the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival and the Female [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:07:41-07:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Career Advancement, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements|Tags: Annelise Larson, Camille Hollet-French, CBC Films, Gloria Mercer, Independent Production Fund, Joy Haskell, Karen Lam, Mayumi Yoshida Telefilm Canada, Panta Mosleh, rebeka Herron, Ruth Lawrence, Shazia Javed, Tanya Lemke, Vortex Media, Winnifred Jong|

Eight Canadian directors selected to develop feature films and series: WIDC Story & Leadership – WFF Industry Immersion

We gratefully acknowledge that the WIDC program originates from the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwu7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta (Tseil-wau-tuth) Nations. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Nations on whose traditional lands our guests and participants live, work and create. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Novmeber 2020: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:10:24-07:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership|Tags: ACTRA National, AFBS, CBC Films, Emily Diana Ruth, Harold Greenberg Fund, Hayley Gray, Independent Production Fund, Lindsay McIntyre, Liz Cairns, Michelle Muldoon, Rachel Beaulieu, Rachel Cairns, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA, ZhiMin Hu|

WIDC announces directors selected for first online edition: CAM St John’s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 2020: 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) taking place in collaboration with the St John's International Women's Film Festival. This augmented online edition runs workshop sessions October 13 to 24, 2020 with follow up career [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:10:49-07:00October 29th, 2020|Categories: Career Advancement, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements|Tags: Annelise Larson, CBC Films, Dorothy A. Atabong, Esra Cilingir, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Jamie Miller, Jill Riley, Ruth Lawrence, Telefilm Canada, Veria, Vortex Media|

WIDC Selects Six Directors for Career Advancement in Vancouver

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Updated March 4, 2020 – Vancouver, BC – Organizers of Canada's Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce six directors have been selected to take part in the 2020 Vancouver Career Advancement Module presented during the 15th annual Vancouver International Women In Film Festival (VIWIFF), March 3 to 8, 2020. Developing original [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:12:15-07:00March 2nd, 2020|Categories: Career Advancement, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: A71, Anaisa Visser, Anita Abbasi, Creative BC, Hayley Gray, Monica Mustelier, Nauzanin A. Knight, Sarah Deakins, Telefilm Canada, TELUS|

Eight Canadian directors selected to develop their feature films and series: WIDC Story and Leadership – WFF Industry Immersion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 19, 2019 (Vancouver, BC) Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight directors selected to develop their narrative feature films and series at the WIDC’s four-month Story & Leadership program that begins November 22 in Vancouver. Tapped earlier this year for the Canadian Academy’s directors program for women, Kim [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:15:45-07:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Camille Hollett-French, Creative BC, Independent Production Fund, Kim Albright, Lana Slezic, Laura Adkin, Monique Hurteau, Nimisha Mukerji, Sarah Galea-Davis, Story & Leadership, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, UBCP-ACTRA|