FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 21, 2021 – Happy National Canadian Film Day!

Our friends at Reel Canada have been hard at work preparing a showcase of Canadian talent and their films for audiences to enjoy TODAY!!

15 WIDC alumnae titles are showcased on their website including:

Spotlight on Contemporary Films
(5/36 are WIDC alumnae titles)

  • The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers* & Kathleen Hepburn)
  • Christopher Plummer: A Man for All Stages (Veronica Tennant)
  • Maudie (Sherry White, screenplay)
  • The Road Forward (Marie Clements)
  • Rustic Oracle (Sonia Bonspille Boileau)

Films Airing on TV and Streaming….

APTN / Lumi

  • The Body Remembers… (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers* & Kathleen Hepburn)

CBC / CBC Gem

  • An Audience of Chairs (Deanne Foley)
  • The Body Remembers… (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers* & Kathleen Hepburn)
  • The Breadwinner (Anita Doron, screenplay)
  • The Lesser Blessed (Anita Doron)
  • Maudie (Sherry White, screenplay)
  • Wexford Plaza (Joyce Wong)
  • Window Horses (Ann Marie Fleming)

Corus

  • Maudie (Sherry White, screenplay)
  • Bearwalker (Dr. Shirley Cheechoo)

Crave

  • Never Steady, Never Still (Kathleen Hepburn)
  • Monkey Beach (Loretta Todd)

NFB

  • Ruthless Souls (Maddison Thomas)
  • Window Horses (Ann Marie Fleming)

Encore+ YouTube

  • Christopher Plummer: A Man for All Stages (Veronica Tennant)

Hollywood Suite

  • Wexford Plaza (Joyce Wong)

Screening through select film festivals across Canada with filmmakers Q&A’s….

  • Rustic Oracle (Sonia Bonspille Boileau)
  • The Body Remembers… (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers* & Kathleen Hepburn)
  • The Curse of Willow Song (Karen Lam)
  • Sugar Daddy (Lauren Grant, Lori Lozinski, producers)
  • Wexford Plaza (Joyce Wong)

Special Events…

  • RCtv – catch a special youth-focussed discussion with Sonia Bonspille Boileau (Rustic Oracle) and Charles Officer (Mighty Jerome) speaking about Indigenous and Black realities in Canada.

*Note: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is not a WIDC alumna, but we are nonetheless delighted to honour her work and collaboration with WIDC alumna Kathleen Hepburn.

About WIDC

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) was founded in 1997 as an initial collaboration among ACTRA, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Women In Film and Television Vancouver. WIDC has since earned a reputation as a highly effective, internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to offer mentorship, development and production support to advance the careers and fiction screen projects of Canadian women directors. With more than 300 director alumnae across Canada who garner over 100 awards and nominations for their work annually, over the last twenty-four years WIDC has fostered the voices and visions of a generation of women screen directors.

WIDC is presented with major support from Telefilm Canada and with the participation of CBC Films, Creative BC, Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, ACTRA National, and the Independent Production Fund.

WIDC Community collaborations include: Directors Guild of Canada, National Film Board, WIFT Vancouver’s International Women In Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, BANFF Media Festival, WIFT Toronto, Women In View, Crazy 8’s, TIFF Share Her Journey, and the Whistler Film Festival.

WIDC Feature Film Award has been supported by Sim, William F. White International, Panavision Canada,  Keslow Camera, Company 3 (formerly Encore Vancouver), Encore VFX, Post Moderne, Skylab Vancouver, White Hart Post production, North Shore Studios, The Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, The Research House Clearance Services Inc., MELS Studios, Walter Lighting & Grip, Front Row Insurance, Descriptive Video Works, National Closed Captioning Canada, and Line 21.