William F White Intl

Three Winnipeg women filmmakers win prize packages to create original short films: Inaugural WIDC Short Works Award presented in collaboration with Winnipeg Film Group

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 2018: Organizers of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) in collaboration with the Winnipeg Film Group are pleased to announce the winners of a new Short Works Award specially created to offer Manitoba-based women filmmakers the opportunity to direct screen fiction. All three directors attended an intensive story development lab which also brought [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:24:44-07:00May 27th, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, Outreach, Short Works Award, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Angela Froese, Canada Council for the Arts, Rachel Beaulieu, Shira Newman, WIDC, William F White Intl, Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg Foundation, Women Directors|

WIDC Feature Film SUCK IT UP Tapped for World Premiere at Slamdance Film Festival

Suck It Up: 1 of 5 Films, and only Canadian Film in the “Beyond” Program Facebook: www.facebook.com/suckitupmovie Twitter: www.twitter.com/suckitupmovie Instagram: www.instagram.com/suckitupmovie FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2016 - Toronto, ON; Suck It Up, the second feature film by WIDC alumna director Jordan Canning (We Were Wolves, TIFF’14) will have its World Premiere at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival, [...]

By CW|2016-12-12T12:25:39-08:00December 12th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Harold Greenberg Fund, Jordan Canning, Suck It Up, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F White Intl|

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|

Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) to present the $120K Feature Film Award

Since our initial launch in 1996, the Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program has had a presence at the BANFF Festival, and we are pleased to be back and part of the Festival's 35th Anniversary celebrations. This year at our annual WIDC Launch Event, Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is presenting our $120K Feature Film Award, rolling out our new web [...]

By SMc|2014-06-09T21:58:51-07:00June 9th, 2014|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Banff Centre, FFA, NBCUniversal, William F White Intl|