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 Young Kim, Left For Dead

Best Direction on a Comedy Series
Siobhan Devine, Kim’s Convenience
Winnifred Jong, Pretty Hard Cases
Renuka Jeyapalan, Sort Of

Best Direction on a Drama Series
Sharon Lewis, Murdoch Mysteries

Best Direction on a Web series (fiction)
Leah Cameron, The Communist’s Daughter

Other alumnae-associated nominations include:

  • 11 nominations for Television Comedy, Pretty Hard Cases, co-created by WIDC alumna Sherry White (including Best editing, Best Costumes, Best Stunt Coordination, Best Casting, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and three for Best Guest Performance).
  • 6 nominations for Digital Short Series (fiction), The Communist’s Daughter, created by WIDC alumna Leah Cameron (including Best Direction, Best Series, Best Performance, and three for Best Performance).
  • 5  nominations for MOW, I Was Lorena Bobbitt (including Best Direction, Best Writing, Best Female Performance, Best Male Performance, and a Best Cinematography nod for Maya Bankovic).
  • 4 nominations for MOW, Death She Wrote (including Best Direction, Best Male Performance and two for Best Female Performance).
  • 3 nominations for MOW, Left For Dead (including Best Direction, Best Writing, and Best Female Performance)
  • 3 nominations for Feature Documentary, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (including Best Feature Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Editing) WIDC alumna Lori Lozinski is one of the producers.
  • A nomination for the Donald Britton Award for Big News, WIDC alumna Michelle Metivier is one of the producers.
  • A Best Short Documentary nomination for Nalujuk Night. WIDC alumna Latonia Hartery is one of the producers.
  • A nomination in the Feature Film category for Between Waves for Best Musical Score. The film was written and directed by WIDC alumna Virginia Abramovich. 
  • A nomination in the Feature Film category for WIDC alumna Gail Maurice for Best Supporting Performance in Night Raiders.
  • A nomination in the Digital Short Series (fiction) category for WIDC alumna Mary Walsh for Best Performance in Broad Appeal.

The Canadian Screen Awards will be presented in April 4 through 10, 2022.

 

About WIDC

Recognizing the term woman/women is in an evolution of language and welcoming those who identify as she/her and or they/them, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) was founded in 1996/97 as an initial collaboration among ACTRA, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Women In Film and Television Vancouver. Since attending WIDC, over 300 Canadian WIDC alumnae have gone on to direct thousands of hours of screen entertainment reaching millions of audiences globally. WIDC is presented with major support from Telefilm Canada and with the participation of Creative BC, Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, ACTRA National, and the Independent Production Fund.  WIDC Community Collaborations include Directors Guild of Canada, National Film Board, WIFTV, Vancouver International Women In Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, WIFT Toronto, Women In View, Crazy 8’s, TIFF Share Her Journey, and the Whistler Film Festival. WIDC Awards have been supported by CBC Films, BANFF World Media Festival, Sim, William F. White International Ltd., Panavision Canada, Keslow Camera, RAW Camera, Company 3, Encore VFX, Elemental Post, Post Moderne, North Shore Studios, The Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, The Research House Clearance Services Inc., MELS Studios, Walter Lighting & Grip, Front Row Insurance, Descriptive Video Works, EP Canada, Line 21 Media Services Ltd.

WIDC gratefully acknowledges that the WIDC program originates from the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish people, including the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwu7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta (Tseil-wau-tuth) Nations. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Nations on whose traditional lands our guests, participants, and colleagues live, work and create. We commit to working together in the spirit of collaboration and respect for the generations that came before, those living now, and the generations to come.