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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 her defiant daughter and her murderously amorous husband how to [...]

Cameras roll on WIDC Feature Film Award winner Kim Albright’s debut feature: With Love and a Major Organ shoots in Vancouver, BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 14, 2022 (Vancouver BC): Cameras have started rolling on Vancouver-based Canadian-British-Filipina director, Kim Albright’s debut feature film With Love and A Major Organ 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. The off-beat comedy screenplay is [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-02-15T16:18:31-08:00February 15th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Maguire, Carol Whiteman, CBC Films, Descriptive Video Works, Elemental Post, EP Canada, Front Row Insurance, Hamza Haq, Julia Lederer, Kalos Studios, Kim Albright, Lori Lozinski, Madeleine Davis, Portable Electric, Raw Camera, Telefilm Canada, The Research House Clearances Inc., Veena Sood, Whistler Film Festival, Whites LES, WIDC, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc., With Love and a Major organ|

Lindsay McIntyre wins WIDC Feature Film Award: Close to $250K in-kind services and rentals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (December 2021) - Multi-award-winning, multi-disciplinary Canadian artist and filmmaker of Inuit and Scottish descent, Lindsay McIntyre is the winner of the Women In the Director's Chair's 2021 Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize valued at nearly $250K, and designed to back the production of more narrative feature films directed by women. This year's award [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-01-08T06:48:56-08:00December 2nd, 2021|Categories: feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Brianne Nord-Stewart, Carol Whiteman, Company 3, Descriptive Video Works, Elemental Post, Encore VFX, Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc, Katrina Beatty, Keslow Camera, Lindsay McIntyre, Panavision Canada, SIM, The Bridge Studios, The Research House Clearances, Vancouver Film Studios, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International, Women Directors|