FFA – WIDC

WIDC Feature Film Award gets boost from Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund and Tattersall Sound & Picture: Jordan Canning inaugural recipient for Suck It Up

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December, 2015: Whistler, BC – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce new sponsorship relationships with the Harold Greenberg Fund and Tattersall Sound and Picture that will disburse some significant cash and in kind services towards Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) programming. The new funds are geared to support women-directed feature film [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00December 3rd, 2015|Categories: Media Release|Tags: ACTRA, Ana Valine, Carol Whiteman Whistler Film Festival, FFA, Harold Greenberg Fund, Jane Tattersall, John Galway, Jordan Canning, Katheleen Hepburn, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, Siobhan Devine, Tattersall Picture and Sound, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, William F White Intl, Women Directors|

Award-Winning Director, Kathleen Hepburn Receives $120,000 WIDC Feature Film Award

Banff, Canada (June 2014)– Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is pleased to announce that Kathleen Hepburn is the recipient of the 2014 WIDC Feature Film Award, a $120,000 in kind prize designed to encourage more feature films directed by women in Canada and supported by some of Canada’s most influential western screen-industry companies. Administered by CWWA, the award will help [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00June 10th, 2014|Categories: Feature Film Award|Tags: Ana Valine, Banff Centre, FFA, Kathleen Hepburn, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, Marie Clements, Siobhan Devine|

Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) to present the $120K Feature Film Award

Since our initial launch in 1996, the Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program has had a presence at the BANFF Festival, and we are pleased to be back and part of the Festival's 35th Anniversary celebrations. This year at our annual WIDC Launch Event, Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is presenting our $120K Feature Film Award, rolling out our new web [...]

By SMc|2014-06-09T21:58:51-07:00June 9th, 2014|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Banff Centre, FFA, NBCUniversal, William F White Intl|

Ana Valine Wins 2014 Leo Award for Best Direction of a Motion Picture

Vancouver (June 6, 2014) – WIDC Feature Film Award winner, Ana Valine took home one of the Leo Award's top prizes, Best Direction of a Motion Picture, for her feature film directorial debut, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene. An alumna of the WIDC program, Ana was the recipient of the 2011 WIDC Feature Film Award (FFA), which contributed $120,000 [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00June 6th, 2014|Categories: Feature Film Award|Tags: Ana Valine, Awards, FFA, WIDC|

WIDC Award-Winner Siobhan Devine’s debut feature building momentum: The Birdwatcher launches IndieGoGo campaign

VANCOUVER (February 25, 2014) – To keep project momentum going on Siobhan Devine’s Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Feature Film Award-winning debut feature The Birdwatcher, the BC-based filmmaking duo, director Devine, and writer, Roslyn Muir are creating an IndieGoGo campaign to help supplement the in kind rentals and services being provided by some of Canada’s pre-eminent industry organizations, including [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00February 25th, 2014|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: FFA, Lori Lozinski, Siobhan Devine|

Award-winning director, Siobhan Devine receives $120,000 WIDC Feature Film Award

Vancouver, Canada (March 2013) – Siobhan Devine is the recipient of the 2013 WIDC Feature Film Award, a $120,000 in kind prize designed to encourage more feature films directed by women in Canada and supported by some of Canada’s most influential western screen-industry companies. Administered by Creative Women Workshops Association, the award will help Devine complete her feature film directorial [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00March 11th, 2013|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Ana Valine, FFA, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, Marie Clements, Siobhan Devine|

$120,000 WIDC Feature Film Award for director Marie Clements

Vancouver, Canada (May 2012) – Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is pleased to announce that award-winning filmmaker Marie Clements is the recipient of the 2012 WIDC Feature Film Award, a $120,000 in kind prize designed to encourage more feature films directed by women in Canada and supported by some of Canada’s most influential western screen-industry companies. This year’s award, administered [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00May 10th, 2012|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Ana Valine, FFA, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, Marie Clements|

2011 winner of $120,000 Feature Film Award is Ana Valine

Through the generous support and leadership from some of the most significant companies in Canada’s film industry, Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) administers an annual award valued at $120,000 in in-kind rentals including one-week studio rental, production equipment rentals, and post production services, towards a feature film project directed by a Canadian woman. Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is a [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00April 11th, 2011|Categories: Feature Film Award|Tags: Ana Valine, FFA|

Keating wins $100,000 WIDC Feature Film Award: western Canadian companies back women Directors

Vancouver, Canada (April 13, 2010) – Award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating is the 2010 recipient of the Women In the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award to be presented by Creative Women Workshops Association April 17 at the Opening Gala the 2010 Women In Film Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia. The WIDC Feature Film Award represents industry leadership and support from some [...]

By SMc|2016-11-15T00:08:39-08:00April 13th, 2010|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: FFA, Lulu Keating|