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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 [...]

With Love and a Major Organ to bow at Fantasia and BIFAN

Pictured: Hamza Haq and Anna Maguire star in Kim Albright’s debut feature, With Love and a Major Organ “one of the best movies out of SXSW 2023” - Mashable “Ambitious and inventive… A creative and vibrant approach to storytelling that bursts with originality… Feels in good company alongside the likes of Charlie Kaufman or Yorgos Lanthimos.” Film Inquiry. “With Love [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:49:05-07:00July 21st, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Maguire, BIFAN, Carol Whiteman, Fantasia Film Festival, Hamza Haq, Julia Lederer, Kim Albright, Madeleine Davis, Raw Camera, Telefilm Canada, Veena Sood, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

Monica’s News: Pamela Gallant’s Debut Feature Films in Nova Scotia

Monica’s News, the debut feature from writer/director Pamela Gallant, has begun filming in Nova Scotia. The film is being produced by award-winning production company Picture Plant. Set in 1974, in the fictional village of Millman, Monica’s News follows an intrepid nine-year-old girl, Casey Richards, as she wages a battle for her own equal rights. While she discovers freedom and [...]

Cameras roll on WIDC Feature Film Award winner Kim Albright’s debut feature: With Love and a Major Organ shoots in Vancouver, BC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 14, 2022 (Vancouver BC): Cameras have started rolling on Vancouver-based Canadian-British-Filipina director, Kim Albright’s debut feature film With Love and A Major Organ 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. The off-beat comedy screenplay is [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-02-15T16:18:31-08:00February 15th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Maguire, Carol Whiteman, CBC Films, Descriptive Video Works, Elemental Post, EP Canada, Front Row Insurance, Hamza Haq, Julia Lederer, Kalos Studios, Kim Albright, Lori Lozinski, Madeleine Davis, Portable Electric, Raw Camera, Telefilm Canada, The Research House Clearances Inc., Veena Sood, Whistler Film Festival, Whites LES, WIDC, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc., With Love and a Major organ|

Acquired by Elevations Pictures, Marie Clements’ award-winning feature Red Snow launches in U.S.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2021 - Zhoh Daatsik Pictures has announced that Marie Clements’ award-winning narrative feature debut Red Snow has been acquired by Elevation Pictures and released in the US. The film released across all digital platforms to US audiences on March 16th and will be available to own on DVD on March 30th. Following its World Premiere screening at [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:30:13-07:00March 30th, 2021|Categories: Back Stories, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC Awards|Tags: APTN, CBC Films, Company 3, Descriptive Video Works, Elevation Pictures, Front Row Insurance Brokers, Harold Greenberg Fund, Line 21, Marie Clements, National Captioning Canada, Panavision Canada, Red Snow, Telefilm Canada, The Research House Clearances, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

Pamela Gallant wins 2019 WIDC Feature Film Award

$200k prize presented at Whistler Film Festival FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (December 8, 2019) – Award-winning Acadian-Canadian filmmaker Pamela Gallant is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2019 national WIDC Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize of up to $200K in services and rentals, designed to encourage more feature films directed by Canadian women and [...]

Shelley Thompson wins WIDC Feature Film Award $200K Prize to be presented at Whistler Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2018) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Shelley Thompson is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2018 national WIDC Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize of services and rentals valued at up to $200K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Nova Scotia-based Thompson, best known for her portrayal of [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:25:07-07:00November 29th, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC Awards|Tags: Keslow Camera, Panavision, Panavision Canada, Poste Moderne, Shelley Thompson, SIM, Walter Lighting and Grip, William F. White International Inc.|

Principal Photography Underway on WIDC Feature Film Award: QUEEN OF THE MORNING CALM, directed by Gloria Ui Young Kim

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, November, 2018 – The latest of three WIDC-supported Feature Film Award films to go to camera this year, Women In the Director’s Chair organizers and Gloryous Productions are delighted to announce that principal photography is underway on Queen of the Morning Calm, a powerful feature-length drama about a single mother and her daughter, and their [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:25:29-07:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Back Stories, feature film, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Eponine Lee, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Jesse LaVercombe, Josh Barsky, Panavision Canada, Shaun Benson, SIM, Sonya Di Rienzo, Tina Jung, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

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.|