Career Advancement – Page 3

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|

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|

Diverse Directors Selected for WIDC at Female Eye Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2015, Toronto, ON - The Women In the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module (WIDC CAM) kicks off the Female Eye Film Festival (June 16 to 21, 2015). The award-winning director participants selected for this session of the CAM include, Toronto-based filmmakers Jackie English (Nimby), Nadine Valcin (In Between/Entre Deux), and Vancouver filmmaker, Maryam Najafi (Kayan). [...]

By CW|2021-04-27T11:06:10-07:00June 14th, 2015|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Christine Buijs, Director Development, Female Eye Film Festival, filmmaking, Jackie English, Maryam Najafi, Nadine Valcin, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, Women Directors, Women screen directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair Launches 2016 Slate of Programs

Director Participants Selected for Career Advancement Module at Female Eye Film Festival For Immediate Release, Vancouver, BC – Over this coming year, twenty-two Canadian women directors will receive the equivalent of over $300,000 in kind in mentorships and awards from Canada’s one-of-a-kind Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), a celebrated career and project development program specially designed for mid-career women [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00June 9th, 2015|Categories: Career Advancement, Feature Film Award, Media Release, Story Incubation Module, WIDC|Tags: Actors, ACTRA, Feature Films, FeFF, filmmaking, funding, Mentorship, professional development, screen writing, Story Incubation Module, Web Series, WIDC, Women Directors|