Director Development Award

Canadian Directors receive WIDC Awards worth over $265k towards development and production of original content

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2022) – November 27, 2022, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers handed out multiple awards valued at over $265k, including cash and in-kind services towards development, production and post production of women*-directed projects. Top prize winner, Susanne Serres takes home the 2022 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dramatic debut feature Celestine about [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:09:45-07:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Films, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marie Clements, Nauzanin Knight, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|

Cameras roll on WIDC Feature Film Award winner Kim Albright’s debut feature: With Love and a Major Organ shoots in Vancouver, BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 14, 2022 (Vancouver BC): Cameras have started rolling on Vancouver-based Canadian-British-Filipina director, Kim Albright’s debut feature film With Love and A Major Organ with regional production funding from Telefilm Canada, along with the WIDC Feature Film Award which includes in kind sponsorships from screen industry companies across the country. The off-beat comedy screenplay is [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-02-15T16:18:31-08:00February 15th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Maguire, Carol Whiteman, CBC Films, Descriptive Video Works, Elemental Post, EP Canada, Front Row Insurance, Hamza Haq, Julia Lederer, Kalos Studios, Kim Albright, Lori Lozinski, Madeleine Davis, Portable Electric, Raw Camera, Telefilm Canada, The Research House Clearances Inc., Veena Sood, Whistler Film Festival, Whites LES, WIDC, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc., With Love and a Major organ|

Carole Ducharme wins $10,000 prize: CTV WIDC Director Development Award winner announced

Vancouver, Canada (June 2011) – Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is pleased to announce the winner of a $10,000 cash prize. Made possible through the support of the CTV-CHUM Benefits, the award is designed to advance the career and next fiction screen-directing project of the recipient. This is the third and final installment of this award. Award-winning filmmaker Carole Ducharme [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00June 2nd, 2011|Categories: Director Development Award, Media Release|Tags: Carole Ducharme, CTV|