FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, BC – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 cohort for their flagship four-part program, Story & Leadership, which includes a Whistler Film Festival Industry Immersion at the powered by Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada. This year’s award-winning director participants are: Dani Kind - Toronto, Ontario-based member of both UBCP/ACTRA [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2023 (Vancouver BC) For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) will present an in-person Industry Immersion at the Whistler Film Festival through a director-focused sponsorship provided by Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada. From BC: Amy Bohigian, Impact Doc Award winner (Only In Nelson) is developing [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2022 (Vancouver BC), Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian directors selected to attend the Women In the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program, presented in collaboration with the Whistler Film Festival. Five of this year’s Story & Leadership cohort of directors are award-winning ACTRA members, including Toronto-based [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2022: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight women and non-binary directors selected to take part in this session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). The Fall 2022 edition of the CAM partners with Canada’s Reelworld Film Festival and the St John’s International Women’s Film Festival. Workshop sessions run through the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2021 (Vancouver BC), Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian directors selected to attend the Women In the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program, presented in collaboration with the Whistler Film Festival. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, WIDC is internationally known as one of Canada’s highly effective script [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Updated March 4, 2020 – Vancouver, BC – Organizers of Canada's Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce six directors have been selected to take part in the 2020 Vancouver Career Advancement Module presented during the 15th annual Vancouver International Women In Film Festival (VIWIFF), March 3 to 8, 2020. Developing original [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 19, 2019 (Vancouver, BC) Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight directors selected to develop their narrative feature films and series at the WIDC’s four-month Story & Leadership program that begins November 22 in Vancouver. Tapped earlier this year for the Canadian Academy’s directors program for women, Kim [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, ON - October, 2019 - Following World Premiere screenings at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Edmonton International Film Festival in September and the recent screening at the 2019 ImagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto, Canadian distributor A-71 has acquired Canadian theatrical distribution rights to acclaimed Métis-Dene playwright/director/producer/ screenwriter Marie Clements’ narrative feature debut Red Snow. A71 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22nd, 2018, Vancouver, BC) Producers Marie Clements (MCM Inc.), Lael McCall (Principia Productions), Michelle Morris (Lily Pictures), and the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers announce the start of production on Marie Clements’ much-anticipated feature-length drama, Red Snow. Principal photography began in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, March 20, 2018. The production then moves to the [...]
