Hosted at Canada’s top three international women’s film festivals, these separate sessions of WIDC offer an immersive experience for mid-career women directors to hone their pitching skills while they zero in on career goals and to create strategic plans to move their careers and screen projects forward. Following a week of tailored master classes and one to one meetings during the host festival, each director receives 3 monthly coaching sessions to keep up the momentum generated during the face to face intensive.
Host Festivals:
Vancouver International Women’s Film Festival, March 2019
St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, October 2019
Female Eye Film Festival, November 2019
Mentors & Guests: A71 Entertainment, Susan Curran; Telefilm Canada, John Dippong, Dan Lyon; Lori McCurdy; CBC Films, Mehernaz Lentin; TELUS STORYHIVE, Smita Acharrya; Independent Production Fund, Andra Sheffer; Harold Greenberg Fund, John Galway, Alan Bacchus; Canadian Screen Composers Guild, Janal Bechthold; Innovate By Day, Deborah Day; WIDC Producer, Carol Whiteman
Mentor Directors: Mina Shum, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Jordan Canning, Lulu Keating