Sonia Bonspille Boileau

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|

Sonia Bonspille Boileau’s, Pour toi Flora, will be first Indigenous-led drama series for CBC radio-Canada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 2021 - On April 27, 2021, radio-Canada announced its first-ever drama production written, directed and produced by Indigenous creators. Pour toi Flora, a miniseries consisting of six hour-long episodes, will premiere on the ad-free premium streaming service ICI TOU.TV EXTRA in 2022 before its linear-TV broadcast on ICI TÉLÉ as well as APTN. According to [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-08-22T13:13:30-07:00May 5th, 2021|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Back Stories, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Featured Voices, Media Release, Women Directors|Tags: CBC, pour toi flora, radio-canada, Sonia Bonspille Boileau|

WIDC alumnae earn 8 directorial achievement nods for upcoming DGC Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National, September 22, 2020 - When the Director's Guild of Canada announced the nominees for their annual Awards, WIDC organizers were delighted to see that 54% (22/41) of the directorial achievement nominees were women, and that nearly 40% of those women nominees are WIDC alumnae. WIDC alumnae nominees include: Feature Film: Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Rustic Oracle [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:11:14-07:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, Women Directors|Tags: DGC, Director's Guild of Canada, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Jordan Canning, Joyce Wong, Loretta Todd, Michelle Latimer, Nimisha Mukerji, Ruth Lawrence, Siobhan Devine, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, TIFF, VIFF SJIWFF Cineplex, Winnifred Jong|

WIDC alumnae rack up 37 nominations: Leo Awards 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2020, Vancouver, BC - An announcement made by the Leo Awards this week, confirms that Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) alumnae and their projects have garnered a whopping thirty-seven nominations, including six for Best Direction and eight for Best Program. Leading the pack with ten nominations, Karen Lam's latest feature film, The Curse [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:11:52-07:00May 20th, 2020|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Alayna Silverberg, Ana de Lara, Carol Whiteman, Hayley Gray, Karen Lam, Leo Awards, Loretta Todd, Mary M. Frymire, Nimisha Mukerji, Siobhan Devine, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Tara Hungerford, Wendy Ord|

WIDC Alumnae at 30th St John’s International Women’s Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 11, 2019 - WIDC alumnae are playing a huge part of this year's 30th annual St John's International Women's Film Festival. This is an historic must see must be at event at one of the world's oldest and highly respected women's film festivals. Six WIDC alumnae-directed feature films are screening including the opening and closing [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:26:24-07:00October 10th, 2019|Categories: Back Stories, Media Release, Outreach, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Black Conflux, Body and Bones, Deanne Foley, Emily Bridger, Honey Bee, Jordan Canning, Karen Lam, Kathleen Hepburn, Latonia Hartery, Lori Lozinski, Lulu Keating, Martine Blue, Mary Walsh, Melanie Oates, Nicole Dorsey, Rustic Oracle, Sherry White, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Stephanie Morgenstern, Tamara Sagura, Telefilm Ca, Telefilm Canada, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, Winnifred Jong|

Filming on Sonia Bonspille Boileau’s feature drama Rustic Oracle kicks off in Oka and Kanesatake

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Montreal, July 31st, 2018 - Produced by Nish Media, filming on Sonia Bonspille Boileau's second feature, Rustic Oracle, has begun in the communities of Oka and Kanesatake. The dramatic feature film, shot in English and due out in the fall of 2019, will raise awareness about the cause of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. [...]

By CW|2018-07-31T07:21:31-07:00July 31st, 2018|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Breaking Barriers Feature Film Fund, Harold Greenberg Fund, Nish Media, Post Moderne, Rustic Oracle, SODEC, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Telefilm Canada, Walters Lighting and Grip, WIDC, Women Directors|

Sonia Bonspille Boileau wins WIDC Feature Film Award: Cash and in-kind totaling close to $200K to be presented at Whistler Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 30, 2017) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2017 national WIDC Feature Film Award, a cash and in-kind prize valued at nearly $200K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Bonspille Boileau, whose first feature was the Telefilm MicroBudget supported [...]

By CW|2017-11-30T21:22:40-08:00November 30th, 2017|Categories: feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Feature Film Award, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, WIDC, Women Directors, Women screen directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Announces Eight Director Participants For Story & Leadership Program to take place at the Whistler Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 8, 2017 (Vancouver BC) Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian women directors who will attend the highly acclaimed script development and director mentoring program WIDC: Story & Leadership, that takes place in part at the Whistler Film Festival (November 29 to December 3). Developing their second [...]

By CW|2017-11-08T09:13:10-08:00November 8th, 2017|Categories: Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: CBC, Elizabeth Lazebnik, Harold Greenberg Fund, Independent Production Fund, Jessica Bradford, Katia Cafe Febrissy, Leah Cameron, Sandi Gisbert, Shannon Walsh, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Sophie Jarvis, STORYHIVE, Telefilm Canada, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC|