Women Directors – Page 3

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|

Canadian Women Directors Get VOD Channel on October 27

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, BC -- For anyone who’s ever wondered where they can find more films directed by women, First Weekend Club's Canada Screens will launch a new VOD channel dedicated exclusively to female directors, curated by Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC). In addition, each feature film will be paired with a complimentary woman-directed short film, courtesy of the National Film Board [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Canada Screens, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Anita Adams, BC Federation of Labour, Canada Screens, Carol Whiteman, NFB, Siobhan Devine, The Birdwatcher, UBCP/ACTRA, VOD, Women Directors, Women's Rights Committee|

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|

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Offers Career Advancement, Celebrates Women Directors at the Fourteenth Annual Female Eye Film Festival

For immediate release: June 8, 2016 (Vancouver, BC). Organizers are pleased to announce the next four women directors to take part in the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Career Advancement Module when it returns to Toronto for the fourteenth annual Female Eye Film Festival June 13 to 19, 2016. Selected to develop their debut feature films are award-winning short [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00June 8th, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Eva Colmers, Female Eye Film Festival, Geraldine Carr, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Independent Production Fund, Ingrid Veninger, Lesley Grant, Melanie Jones, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

WIDC Feature Film Award-winning ‘SUCK IT UP’ goes to camera, Jordan Canning directing

“SUCK IT UP” STARRING ERIN CARTER, GRACE GLOWICKI DIRECTED BY JORDAN CANNING, GOES TO CAMERA IN THE HEART OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES DAN BEIRNE AND MICHAEL ROWE JOIN THE CAST For immediate release - (May 31, 2016 – Invermere, B.C.) Principal photography is underway on the comedic drama SUCK IT UP directed by Jordan Canning (We Were Wolves). The feature is [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00June 3rd, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Jordan Canning, Suck It Up, WIDC, Women Directors|

Soda Pictures Picks up Never Steady, Never Still for Canadian and UK Distribution as Shooting Recommences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 May 2016: Following an extraordinary winter shoot, which saw cast and crew taking on the challenge of filming in freezing conditions in Northern British Columbia, shooting recommences on Never Steady, Never Still, the debut feature from award-winning filmmaker Kathleen Hepburn. Principle photography begins again May 20th in historic Fort St. James, BC. “Soda Pictures UK has [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Christie Street Creative, Experimental Forest Productions, Feature Film Award, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady, Never Still, Shirley Henderson, Soda Pictures, Telefilm Canada, TIFF, VIFF, Women Directors, Women In Film|

Five BC-based filmmakers selected for WIDC career advancement during Vancouver International Women In Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - On March 7, 2016 five BC-based female filmmakers will have a jump start to the 11th annual Vancouver International Women In Film Festival (March 8 to 13, 2016) as they begin the Women In the Director's Chair Career Advancement Module (WIDC CAM) at the Sandman Hotel and Suites on Davie. These directors are offered the rare [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00March 3rd, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Adelina Suvagau, Brianne Nord-Stewart, Carol Whiteman, Fumiko Kiyooka, John Dippong, Julia Hutchings, Karen Lam, Kate Green, Marina Cordoni, Melanie M. Jones, Sara McIntyre, Siobhan Devine, Telefilm Canada, VIWIFF, WIFTV, Women Directors|

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|

Top-notch Talent to Attend Whistler Film Festival for WIDC Story & Leadership Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October, 2015 – Vancouver BC: Eight women directors from across Canada have been selected to attend the 20th annual session of Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), which includes the pilot program, WIDC Story & Leadership. Over the coming months this top-notch group of content creators will develop their feature films and web [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00October 13th, 2015|Categories: Media Release, Uncategorized, WIDC|Tags: Ana de Lara, Anita Reilly McGee, Feature Films, Frances-Anne Solomon, Jordan Canning, Karen Lam, Marie Clements, Mary Walsh, Maya Gallus, Nicole Dorsey, Rachel Talaley, Siobhan Devine, WIDC, Women Directors, Women screen directors|