Marjan Hashemi receives 2023 WIDC Feature Film Award $250,000 worth of in-kind services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2023) – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce that award-winning Iranian-Canadian filmmaker, Marjan Hashemi will take home the 2023 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dark comedy debut feature, After Love about an Iranian-Canadian immigrant wife who learns from [...]
With Love and a Major Organ to bow at Fantasia and BIFAN
Pictured: Hamza Haq and Anna Maguire star in Kim Albright’s debut feature, With Love and a Major Organ “one of the best movies out of SXSW 2023” - Mashable “Ambitious and inventive… A creative and vibrant approach to storytelling that bursts with originality… Feels in good company alongside the likes [...]
Monica’s News: Pamela Gallant’s Debut Feature Films in Nova Scotia
Monica’s News, the debut feature from writer/director Pamela Gallant, has begun filming in Nova Scotia. The film is being produced by award-winning production company Picture Plant. Set in 1974, in the fictional village of Millman, Monica’s News follows an intrepid nine-year-old girl, Casey Richards, as she wages a battle [...]
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 [...]
Cameras roll on Susanne Serres debut feature Celestine
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 16, 2023 (Montreal, QC): Cameras have started rolling on Montreal-based writer/director, Susanne Serres’ debut feature film Celestine 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. An [...]
Kim Albright’s feature film With Love and a Major Organ World Premieres at SxSW
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (February 1, 2023) - Vancouver-based Canadian-British-Filipina director, Kim Albright’s debut feature film With Love and A Major Organ will have its world premiere at the prestigious South By Southwest Festival (March 10 to 19, 2023). With Love will be screened as part of the Visions programme at [...]