Women Directors

Canadian Directors receive WIDC Awards worth over $265k towards development and production of original content

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2022) – November 27, 2022, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers handed out multiple awards valued at over $265k, including cash and in-kind services towards development, production and post production of women*-directed projects. Top prize winner, Susanne Serres takes home the 2022 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dramatic debut feature Celestine about [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:09:45-07:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Films, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marie Clements, Nauzanin Knight, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair Selects Nine Women and Non-binary Directors For Spring Edition of Career Advancement Module

Pictured: Top: Lisa Robertson, Marielle Quesney, Katelyn McCulloch, Gianna Isabella, Rolla Tahir Bottom: Mily Mumford, Frieda Luk, Anna Wheeler, Gia Milani FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 2022: Women In the Director’s Chair organizers are pleased to announce the nine women and non-binary directors selected to take part in the upcoming edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). Celebrating its [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-03-09T17:45:37-08:00March 8th, 2022|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Wheeler, FeFF, Frieda Luk, Gia Milani, Gianna Isabella, Katelyn McCulloch, Lisa Robertson, Marielle Quesney, Mily Mumford, Rolla Tahir, VIWFF, WIDC, Women Directors|

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 [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-08-22T13:01:23-07:00February 22nd, 2022|Categories: Featured Voices, Innovation & Inspiration, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACCT, Achievement in Directing, CBC, Danishka Esterhazy, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Kim's Convenience, Leah Cameron, Lorena Bobbitt, MOWs, Murdoch Mysteries, Pretty Hard Cases, Renuka Jeyapalan, Sharon Lewis, Siobhan Devine, Sort Of, The Canadian Academy, WIDC, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

Greetings for Black History Month 2022 from WIDC alumna Dr. Rita Shelton Deverell

Published by permission: Greetings to the Lakehead community during Black History Month 2022 Of course, we know that Black people have been in Canada since the 1600s. Don’t we? We know that is not since time immemorial, like Indigenous peoples, whose territories we occupy, but 400 years is a good long time. And we know that the contributions of [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-08-22T13:06:00-07:00February 12th, 2022|Categories: Equity Diversity Inclusion, Featured Voices, Women Directors|Tags: Black History Month, Rita Shelton Deverell, Women Directors, women's voices|

Lindsay McIntyre wins WIDC Feature Film Award: Close to $250K in-kind services and rentals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (December 2021) - Multi-award-winning, multi-disciplinary Canadian artist and filmmaker of Inuit and Scottish descent, Lindsay McIntyre is the winner of the Women In the Director's Chair's 2021 Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize valued at nearly $250K, and designed to back the production of more narrative feature films directed by women. This year's award [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-01-08T06:48:56-08:00December 2nd, 2021|Categories: feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Brianne Nord-Stewart, Carol Whiteman, Company 3, Descriptive Video Works, Elemental Post, Encore VFX, Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc, Katrina Beatty, Keslow Camera, Lindsay McIntyre, Panavision Canada, SIM, The Bridge Studios, The Research House Clearances, Vancouver Film Studios, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International, Women Directors|

Eight directors selected for WIDC’s Career Advancement Module Fall 2021 Edition: collaborating with Reelworld Film Festival and St John’s International Women’s Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 4, 2021: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight women directors selected to take part in the 25th Anniversary session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). The Fall 2021 edition of the CAM marks a first-ever combined collaboration with Canada’s Reelworld Film Festival and the St John’s [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-11-20T00:37:47-08:00October 4th, 2021|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Bronwyn Szabo, Career Advancement Module, Dani Pagliarello, Dianne Wulf Mahoney, Eva Thomas, Lorraine Price, Luvia Petersen, Mina Shum, Nika Belianina, Polly Pierce, Reelworld Film Festival, Sharon Lewis, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Women Directors|

Announcing the Eight Women Directors Selected for WIDC Story & Leadership – Whistler Film Festival Industry Immersion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 12, 2018 (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 28 to December 2). We also celebrate [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:23:32-07:00November 12th, 2018|Categories: Featured Voices, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, Anna Cooley, Carolyn Combs, CBC Films, Deanne Foley, Independent Production Fund, JJ Neepin, Jude Klassen, Meeshelle Neal, Michelle Morgan, Mis Fiona Kut, Pamela Gallant, Penny Eizenga, Rama Rau, Shalagh Carter, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, UBCP-ACTRA, Veronika Kurz, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC, Women Directors|

WIDC Short Works Award: Kamloops

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) WIDC Short Works Award: Kamloops Edition presented with the supported of TELUS STORYHIVE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! For Canadian women screen directors the WIDC Short Works Award is designed to provide up to three Canadian women directors with a tailored development offering with the goal of creating one short fiction film work (2-3 minutes [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:24:15-07:00August 1st, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Short Works Award, STORYHIVE, TELUS, WIDC, Women Directors|

Filming on Sonia Bonspille Boileau’s feature drama Rustic Oracle kicks off in Oka and Kanesatake

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Montreal, July 31st, 2018 - Produced by Nish Media, filming on Sonia Bonspille Boileau's second feature, Rustic Oracle, has begun in the communities of Oka and Kanesatake. The dramatic feature film, shot in English and due out in the fall of 2019, will raise awareness about the cause of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. [...]

By CW|2018-07-31T07:21:31-07:00July 31st, 2018|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Breaking Barriers Feature Film Fund, Harold Greenberg Fund, Nish Media, Post Moderne, Rustic Oracle, SODEC, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Telefilm Canada, Walters Lighting and Grip, WIDC, Women Directors|

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|