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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|

WIDC Organizers to Deliver New TELUS STORYHIVE Career Accelerator For Emerging Content Creators in Prince George, BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2017 (Vancouver, BC) – Organizers of the internationally respected Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce that they have been funded by TELUS STORYHIVE to deliver a new professional development offering for emerging content creators this summer. The Career Accelerator presented by Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA), supported by STORYHIVE, [...]

By CW|2018-03-01T22:11:09-08:00July 21st, 2017|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, Women Directors|Tags: Career Accelerator, Career Advancement, Content Creators, TELUS STORYHIVE, WIDC|

Three Award-winning Directors Selected for WIDC Career Advancement in Toronto

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 31, 2017: WIDC organizers 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 June 19 to 24, 2017 during the Toronto's Female Eye Film Festival which is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The CAM is specially designed to [...]

By CW|2018-03-01T22:12:43-08:00May 31st, 2017|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Career Advancement Module, Female Eye Film Festival, Telefilm Canada, Virginia Ambramovich, WIDC, Women Directors|

WIDC Launches Directory of 220 Women Directors across Canada: And Calls for Feature Film Award Submissions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Vancouver (May 22, 2017): As part of its 20th anniversary celebration and also in answer to the question, "Where are the women directors?", Canada's one of a kind national professional development initiative, Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) has launched a new alumnae directory featuring the profiles of 220 Canadian women directors from coast to coast [...]

By CW|2017-05-23T07:45:33-07:00May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Alison Reid, Alumnae Directory, Ana Valine, Carol Whiteman, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Jordan Canning, Kathleen Hepburn, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, Marie Clements, Stephanie Morgenstern, WIDC, 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|

Unprecedented International Collective Stands Together at TIFF ‘16

#DirectHERs #seeHERnow WIDC is proud to be part of a groundbreaking collective of 12 international women’s film and television organizations, film festivals, media outlets, and production companies, that are coming together for the first time at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), to promote the shared goal of increasing the number of women in the director’s chair. In this [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00September 1st, 2016|Categories: Media Release|Tags: Alliance of Women Directors, Black Women Film! Canada, Film, Film Fatales, NYWIFT, Tangerine Entertainment, TIFF, WIDC, WIFT, WIFT-AT, WIFTV, Women and Hollywood, Women Directors, Women In the Director's Chair, Women In View|

WIDC Feature Film Award: Now valued at $190K

WIDC Signs $120K Three-year Agreement with William F. White International – Technicolor, Skylab, MELS, and The Research House offer support to Feature Film Award for Women Directors Next submission deadline: June 30, 2016 For more information: Applications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June, 2016: Toronto, ON – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce a new sponsorship agreement [...]

By CW|2016-06-28T05:57:18-07:00June 20th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Ana Valine, Jordan Canning, Kathleen Hepburn, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, MELS Studios, Siobhan Devine, Skylab, Technicolor Toronto, WIDC, William F. White International Inc.|