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WIDC Nominates alumnae Shelley Thompson and Winnifred Jong for Telefilm Canada MicroBudget Program

2017 Telefilm Canada MicroBudget Production Program Nominees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National, February, 2017 - The organizers of Canada's acclaimed Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program are delighted to announce that recent Story and Leadership alumnae Winnifred Jong and Shelley Thompson have been nominated for consideration for the 2017 Telefilm MicroBudget Production program. Nominated with producer Lynn Matheson, writer/director Shelley [...]

By CW|2017-04-03T11:14:56-07:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: Media Release, Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Program, WIDC|Tags: Feature Films, Shelley Thompson, Telefilm Canada, Web Series, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

Gloria Ui Young Kim wins WIDC Feature Film Award: $190K Prize Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2016) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Gloria Ui Young Kim is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2016 national WIDC Feature Film Award, a cash and in-kind prize valued at $190K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Administered by the organizers of Canada’s respected Women In the Director’s Chair [...]

By CW|2016-11-22T09:58:10-08:00November 22nd, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Feature Film Award, Feature Films, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Tattersall Picture and Sound, Technicolor Toronto, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, William F. White, Women Directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Selects This Year’s Eight Director Participants For Story & Leadership Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2016 (Vancouver BC) Following the launch of its collaboration with Canada Screens, to curate a new women-director-focused VOD Channel, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian women directors who will attend the 20th anniversary session of the highly acclaimed script development and director mentoring program WIDC: Story [...]

By CW|2017-11-03T13:30:44-07:00October 31st, 2016|Categories: Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kate Green, Madison Thomas, Melanie Oates, Rama Rau, Shelley Thompson, Telefilm Canada, Telus Optik Local, Virginia Abramovich, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

Announcing Directors for WIDC Career Advancement Module St John’s

WIDC CAM St John's 2016 Director Participants (L to R) Emily Bridger, Wanda Nolan, Melanie Oates, Carolyn Saunders FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 2016: Organizers of the Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce the four women directors selected to partake in the next edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00September 29th, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: St John's International Women's Film Festival, Telefilm Canada, Telus Optik Local, WIDC, Women Directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Offers Career Advancement, Celebrates Women Directors at the Fourteenth Annual Female Eye Film Festival

For immediate release: June 8, 2016 (Vancouver, BC). Organizers are pleased to announce the next four women directors to take part in the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Career Advancement Module when it returns to Toronto for the fourteenth annual Female Eye Film Festival June 13 to 19, 2016. Selected to develop their debut feature films are award-winning short [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00June 8th, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Eva Colmers, Female Eye Film Festival, Geraldine Carr, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Independent Production Fund, Ingrid Veninger, Lesley Grant, Melanie Jones, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

Soda Pictures Picks up Never Steady, Never Still for Canadian and UK Distribution as Shooting Recommences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 May 2016: Following an extraordinary winter shoot, which saw cast and crew taking on the challenge of filming in freezing conditions in Northern British Columbia, shooting recommences on Never Steady, Never Still, the debut feature from award-winning filmmaker Kathleen Hepburn. Principle photography begins again May 20th in historic Fort St. James, BC. “Soda Pictures UK has [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Christie Street Creative, Experimental Forest Productions, Feature Film Award, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady, Never Still, Shirley Henderson, Soda Pictures, Telefilm Canada, TIFF, VIFF, Women Directors, Women In Film|

Five BC-based filmmakers selected for WIDC career advancement during Vancouver International Women In Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - On March 7, 2016 five BC-based female filmmakers will have a jump start to the 11th annual Vancouver International Women In Film Festival (March 8 to 13, 2016) as they begin the Women In the Director's Chair Career Advancement Module (WIDC CAM) at the Sandman Hotel and Suites on Davie. These directors are offered the rare [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00March 3rd, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Adelina Suvagau, Brianne Nord-Stewart, Carol Whiteman, Fumiko Kiyooka, John Dippong, Julia Hutchings, Karen Lam, Kate Green, Marina Cordoni, Melanie M. Jones, Sara McIntyre, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, VIWIFF, WIFTV, Women Directors|

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|

Women In the Director’s Chair and Whistler Film Festival co-present WIDC Story & Leadership: A new 4-month intensive for women screen directors

For Immediate Release, July 8, 2015, Whistler BC - Following a successful collaboration last year, Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) and the Whistler Film Festival have officially launched the WIDC: Story & Leadership, a new 4-month intensive for women screen directors focusing on fiction feature film and web series development that takes place in part at [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00July 8th, 2015|Categories: Story Incubation Module, WIDC|Tags: ACTRA, Director Development, Feature Films, Telefilm Canada, Web Series, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC, Women Directors, Women screen directors|

Diverse Directors Selected for WIDC at Female Eye Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2015, Toronto, ON - The Women In the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module (WIDC CAM) kicks off the Female Eye Film Festival (June 16 to 21, 2015). The award-winning director participants selected for this session of the CAM include, Toronto-based filmmakers Jackie English (Nimby), Nadine Valcin (In Between/Entre Deux), and Vancouver filmmaker, Maryam Najafi (Kayan). [...]

By CW|2021-04-27T11:06:10-07:00June 14th, 2015|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Christine Buijs, Director Development, Female Eye Film Festival, filmmaking, Jackie English, Maryam Najafi, Nadine Valcin, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, Women Directors, Women screen directors|