FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to share the news that WIDC alumni and their projects have received multiple nominations for the 2024 DGC Awards. The WIDC alumni nominees include: ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY Shannon Walsh – Adrianne & the Castle DGC JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DISCOVERY AWARD Melanie Oates – Sweet Angel Baby [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, BC – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to uplift the tremendous showing of WIDC alumni, including WIDC co-creator and producer, Dr. Carol Whiteman, at the 2024 Leo Awards, presented by the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to celebrate and promote the [...]
Pictured (L-R): Martina Monro, Teresa Alfeld, Kathleen Cummins, Rosie Choo Pidcock 2nd Row: Shonna Foster, Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt, Eva Tavares, Émilie Martel FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2023: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organisers 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), presented [...]
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 [...]
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: March 2021 - Zhoh Daatsik Pictures has announced that Marie Clements’ award-winning narrative feature debut Red Snow has been acquired by Elevation Pictures and released in the US. The film released across all digital platforms to US audiences on March 16th and will be available to own on DVD on March 30th. Following its World Premiere screening at [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 9, 2020 - Vancouver, BC. Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) alumnae-directed films took home the top feature film prizes given out at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF) Awards Gala on March 8th, International Women’s Day. Red Snow writer /director Marie Clements received the CFA Award for Best Screenplay and the DGC [...]
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: April 30, 2018, Vancouver - Organizers of the Women In the Director's Chair are thrilled to announce that WIDC alumnae and their projects have earned 28 Leo Award nominations including 7 for best direction. "Through a system of peer adjudication, with final ballot tabulation by Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants, we are pleased to confirm the [...]
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 [...]
