Career Advancement

Women In the Director’s Chair Launches 25th Anniversary including new collaboration with Reelworld Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2021 – Kicking off the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), organizers are delighted to announce that the Reelworld Film Institute / Reelworld Film Festival will become an official community collaborator. Together with the St John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF), the three organizations will co-present the Fall 2021 Online [...]

By |2021-06-14T23:07:44-07:00June 11th, 2021|Categories: Equity Diversity Inclusion, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: , , , , , , |
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WIDC Organizers to Deliver New TELUS STORYHIVE Career Accelerator For Emerging Content Creators in Prince George, BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2017 (Vancouver, BC) – Organizers of the internationally respected Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce that they have been funded by TELUS STORYHIVE to deliver a new professional development offering for emerging content creators this summer. The Career Accelerator presented by Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA), supported by STORYHIVE, [...]

By |2018-03-01T22:11:09-08:00July 21st, 2017|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, Women Directors|Tags: , , , , |
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WIDC Announces Career Advancement Module Vancouver Director Participants: Supported with the participation of TELUS Optik Local

WIDC Announces Career Advancement Module Vancouver Director Participants: Supported with the participation of TELUS Optik Local FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 2017: Four western-based women directors have been selected to partake in the next edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place March 7 to 12, 2017 during the Vancouver International Women In Film Festival. Aiming [...]

By |2017-02-27T05:39:18-08:00February 27th, 2017|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC)
Offering tailored mentorship, project development, workshops, production awards, and made-to-order outreach initiatives, WIDC builds capacity for women and non-binary screen directors to advance their careers and narrative screen projects in a safe collegial setting.

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WIDC recognizes the term Woman/Women is in an evolution of language and note that our intention in our use is to be fully inclusive of underrepresented persons who may identify as she/her and or they/them and share the goals and values of WIDC to promote these marginalized voices and stories.

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Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC)
PO Box 51505 Main Street South, Park Royal
West Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V7T 2X9

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We gratefully acknowledge that the WIDC program originates from the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish people, including the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwu7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta (Tseil-wau-tuth) Nations. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Nations on whose traditional lands our guests, participants, and colleagues live, work and create. We commit to working together in the spirit of collaboration and respect for the generations that came before, those living now, and the generations to come.

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