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WIDC Alumni Nominated for 2025 CSAs

Congrats to all the 2025 #CSA nominees, especially WIDC alumni and their projects who have earned 57 nominations, including... 6x BEST DIRECTION NOMINATIONS: Naomi Jaye, Darkest Miriam (feature film) Nimisha Mukerji, Allegiance (drama series) Marie Clements, Bones of Crows (drama series) Sharon Lewis, Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (drama series) Vanessa Magic, Near or Far (digital series) Zarqa [...]

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WIDC Alumnae earn eight nominations for Achievement in Direction at 2022 CSA’s

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 2022: When the Canadian Academy announced the nominees for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards - the CSA's - WIDC alumnae and their associated projects had earned forty-one nods, including eight nominations for Achievement in Direction. Nominations include: Best Direction of an MOW Sharon Lewis, Death She Wrote Danishka Esterhazy, I Was Lorena Bobbitt Gloria Ui [...]

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Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC)
Offering tailored mentorship, project development, workshops, production awards, and made-to-order outreach initiatives, WIDC builds capacity for women and non-binary screen directors to advance their careers and narrative screen projects in a safe collegial setting.

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WIDC recognizes the term Woman/Women is in an evolution of language and note that our intention in our use is to be fully inclusive of underrepresented persons who may identify as she/her and or they/them and share the goals and values of WIDC to promote these marginalized voices and stories.

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