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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|

Kim Albright wins 2020 WIDC awards for debut feature, With Love and a Major Organ

CBC Films renews WIDC commitment for 2021 in support of underrepresented voices FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 18, 2020 (Vancouver BC): Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce that Vancouver-based filmmaker Kim Albright is the 2020 winner of two major WIDC awards: the CBC Films WIDC Talent Development Award worth $10,000 cash, and the WIDC [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:09:54-07:00December 18th, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, Uncategorized, WIDC Awards|Tags: Kim Albright|

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 alumnae earn 8 directorial achievement nods for upcoming DGC Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National, September 22, 2020 - When the Director's Guild of Canada announced the nominees for their annual Awards, WIDC organizers were delighted to see that 54% (22/41) of the directorial achievement nominees were women, and that nearly 40% of those women nominees are WIDC alumnae. WIDC alumnae nominees include: Feature Film: Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Rustic Oracle [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:11:14-07:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, Women Directors|Tags: DGC, Director's Guild of Canada, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Jordan Canning, Joyce Wong, Loretta Todd, Michelle Latimer, Nimisha Mukerji, Ruth Lawrence, Siobhan Devine, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, TIFF, VIFF SJIWFF Cineplex, Winnifred Jong|

Racism is soul-destroying: Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell reacts to current events in USA and Canada

June 2, 2020. #BlackoutTuesday In light of recent events, WIDC alumna 2006 and former Board Member, Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell has asked us to reprint her reactions below to current events in the USA and Canada. The WIDC Board agreed unanimously to give Rita this space. Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell Until I realized that murdered black man [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-08T09:47:09-07:00June 2nd, 2020|Categories: Equity Diversity Inclusion, Featured Voices, Media Release|Tags: #BlackoutTuesday, Rita Shelton Deverell|

WIDC alumnae nab three best direction awards: 2020 CSA’s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 28, 2020, Toronto, ON - With twenty-one nominations going into the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards, WIDC alumnae have picked up seven awards, including three for Best Direction. The annual CSA's are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and due to COVID-19 were presented virtually this year. In the Feature Film category, Kathleen [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:11:41-07:00May 28th, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Canadian Screen Awards, Jordan Canning, Kathleen Hepburn, Lori Lozinski, Tina Keeper, Wedny Ord, Winnifred Jong|

WIDC alumnae rack up 37 nominations: Leo Awards 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2020, Vancouver, BC - An announcement made by the Leo Awards this week, confirms that Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) alumnae and their projects have garnered a whopping thirty-seven nominations, including six for Best Direction and eight for Best Program. Leading the pack with ten nominations, Karen Lam's latest feature film, The Curse [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:11:52-07:00May 20th, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Alayna Silverberg, Ana de Lara, Carol Whiteman, Hayley Gray, Karen Lam, Leo Awards, Loretta Todd, Mary M. Frymire, Nimisha Mukerji, Siobhan Devine, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Tara Hungerford, Wendy Ord|

Marie Clements’ Red Snow wins top honours at VIWFF2020, begins theatrical run

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 9, 2020 - Vancouver, BC. Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) alumnae-directed films took home the top feature film prizes given out at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF) Awards Gala on March 8th, International Women’s Day. Red Snow writer /director Marie Clements received the CFA Award for Best Screenplay and the DGC [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2020-08-25T08:44:41-07:00March 9th, 2020|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: A-71, Black Conflux, CFA, Cineplex, DGC BC, IATSE 891, Marie Clements, Nicole Dorsey, Red Snow, Telefilm Canada|

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|