Lindsay McIntyre

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 [...]

Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada Sponsors Women In the Director’s Chair to attend 2023 Whistler Film Festival: Announcing Eight Directors Selected for Story & Leadership

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 [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-12-13T12:11:52-08:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership, Uncategorized, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA National, AFBS, Amy Bohigian, bruna arbex, Creative BC, Giselle Miller, Independent Production Fund, Jenny Lee-Gilmore, Jules Koostachin, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marielle Quesney, Marjan Hashemi, Nimisha Mukerji, Shelly Hong, Sunny Mohajer, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA, Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada, Whistler Film Festival, Yasmine Mathurin|

Canadian Directors receive WIDC Awards worth over $265k towards development and production of original content

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2022) – November 27, 2022, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers handed out multiple awards valued at over $265k, including cash and in-kind services towards development, production and post production of women*-directed projects. Top prize winner, Susanne Serres takes home the 2022 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dramatic debut feature Celestine about [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:09:45-07:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Films, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marie Clements, Nauzanin Knight, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|

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|

Eight Canadian directors selected to develop feature films and series: WIDC Story & Leadership – WFF Industry Immersion

We gratefully acknowledge that the WIDC program originates from the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwu7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta (Tseil-wau-tuth) Nations. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Nations on whose traditional lands our guests and participants live, work and create. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Novmeber 2020: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:10:24-07:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership|Tags: ACTRA National, AFBS, CBC Films, Emily Diana Ruth, Harold Greenberg Fund, Hayley Gray, Independent Production Fund, Lindsay McIntyre, Liz Cairns, Michelle Muldoon, Rachel Beaulieu, Rachel Cairns, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA, ZhiMin Hu|