Susanne Serres

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 Susanne Serres debut feature Celestine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 16, 2023 (Montreal, QC): Cameras have started rolling on Montreal-based writer/director, Susanne Serres’ debut feature film Celestine 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. An original English-language drama with Afro-futurist elements, Celestine is produced by [...]

By CW|2023-04-27T13:54:56-07:00March 16th, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Equity Diversity Inclusion, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Benoit Beaulieu, Carol Whiteman, Celestine, Chanel Mings, feature film, Lee Paula Springer, SLYKYD, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada|

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|

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 19, 2019 (Vancouver, BC) Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight directors selected to develop their narrative feature films and series at the WIDC’s four-month Story & Leadership program that begins November 22 in Vancouver. Tapped earlier this year for the Canadian Academy’s directors program for women, Kim [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:15:45-07:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Camille Hollett-French, Creative BC, Independent Production Fund, Kim Albright, Lana Slezic, Laura Adkin, Monique Hurteau, Nimisha Mukerji, Sarah Galea-Davis, Story & Leadership, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, UBCP-ACTRA|