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Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada Sponsors Women In the Director’s Chair to attend 2023 Whistler Film Festival: Announcing Eight Directors Selected for Story & Leadership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2023 (Vancouver BC) For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) will present an in-person Industry Immersion at the Whistler Film Festival through a director-focused sponsorship provided by Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada. From BC: Amy Bohigian, Impact Doc Award winner (Only In Nelson) is developing [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-12-13T12:11:52-08:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Media Release, Program Announcements, Story & Leadership, Uncategorized, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA National, AFBS, Amy Bohigian, bruna arbex, Creative BC, Giselle Miller, Independent Production Fund, Jenny Lee-Gilmore, Jules Koostachin, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marielle Quesney, Marjan Hashemi, Nimisha Mukerji, Shelly Hong, Sunny Mohajer, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA, Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada, Whistler Film Festival, Yasmine Mathurin|

Directors Announced for WIDC Career Advancement Module Fall 2023

Pictured (L-R): Martina Monro, Teresa Alfeld, Kathleen Cummins, Rosie Choo Pidcock 2nd Row: Shonna Foster, Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt, Eva Tavares, Émilie Martel FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2023: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organisers are pleased to announce the eight women and non-binary directors selected to take part in this session of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM), presented [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-12-02T18:10:24-08:00October 4th, 2023|Categories: Career Advancement, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Media Release, Program Announcements, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Career Advancement Module, Emilie Martel, Eva Tavares, Kathleen Cummins, Kim Albright, Marie Clements, Martina Monro, Michelle D'Alessandro Hatt, Rama Rau, Reelworld Film Festival, Reelworld Screen Institute, reelworld Summit, Rosie Choo Pidcock, Ruth Lawrence, Shonna Foster, SJIWFF, Telefilm Canada, Teresa Alfeld, WIDC|

With Love and a Major Organ to bow at Fantasia and BIFAN

Pictured: Hamza Haq and Anna Maguire star in Kim Albright’s debut feature, With Love and a Major Organ “one of the best movies out of SXSW 2023” - Mashable “Ambitious and inventive… A creative and vibrant approach to storytelling that bursts with originality… Feels in good company alongside the likes of Charlie Kaufman or Yorgos Lanthimos.” Film Inquiry. “With Love [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:49:05-07:00July 21st, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Maguire, BIFAN, Carol Whiteman, Fantasia Film Festival, Hamza Haq, Julia Lederer, Kim Albright, Madeleine Davis, Raw Camera, Telefilm Canada, Veena Sood, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

Monica’s News: Pamela Gallant’s Debut Feature Films in Nova Scotia

Monica’s News, the debut feature from writer/director Pamela Gallant, has begun filming in Nova Scotia. The film is being produced by award-winning production company Picture Plant. Set in 1974, in the fictional village of Millman, Monica’s News follows an intrepid nine-year-old girl, Casey Richards, as she wages a battle for her own equal rights. While she discovers freedom and [...]

WIDC Presents Alumnae Awards at 27th Edition Launch Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2023, Vancouver, BC. – The 27th annual Launch Event of the acclaimed Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), held June 8, 2023 presented two awards to BC-based alumnae, and announced the call for submissions for the 2023-24 slate of WIDC programming. Hayley Gray is the 2023 recipient of the WIDC BANFF Fellowship Award. Made possible through [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-06-12T08:50:19-07:00June 12th, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, BANFF Fellowship, Equity Diversity Inclusion, Media Release, Program Announcements, Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Program, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Banff World Media Fellowship, Banff World Media Festival, Giselle Miller, Hayley Gray, IPF, Telefilm Canada, UBCP/ACTRA|

Cameras roll on Susanne Serres debut feature Celestine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 16, 2023 (Montreal, QC): Cameras have started rolling on Montreal-based writer/director, Susanne Serres’ debut feature film Celestine with regional production funding from Telefilm Canada, along with the WIDC Feature Film Award, which includes in kind sponsorships from screen industry companies across the country. An original English-language drama with Afro-futurist elements, Celestine is produced by [...]

By CW|2023-04-27T13:54:56-07:00March 16th, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Equity Diversity Inclusion, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Benoit Beaulieu, Carol Whiteman, Celestine, Chanel Mings, feature film, Lee Paula Springer, SLYKYD, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada|

Kim Albright’s feature film With Love and a Major Organ World Premieres at SxSW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (February 1, 2023) - Vancouver-based Canadian-British-Filipina director, Kim Albright’s debut feature film With Love and A Major Organ will have its world premiere at the prestigious South By Southwest Festival (March 10 to 19, 2023). With Love will be screened as part of the Visions programme at South By, with screening dates to be announced shortly. Produced [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-02-01T17:51:51-08:00February 1st, 2023|Categories: Awards & Accolades, feature film, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC Awards|Tags: Anita Doron, Anna Maguire, Carol Whiteman, CBC Films, CFC, Hamza Haq, Kim Albright, Lori Lozinski, Madeleine Davis, South By Southwest, SXSW, Telefilm Canada, Veena Sood, WIDC Feature Film Award|

Luvia Petersen wins inaugural WIDC Advantage Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: National, June 2022 – The organizers of Canada’s acclaimed Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program are delighted to announce that recent Career Advancement Module alumna Luvia Petersen is the recipient of the inaugural WIDC Advantage Award for her debut feature film, Human Nature. The prize includes a one-year mentorship for Petersen, a spot at WIDC [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-07-31T16:27:18-07:00June 3rd, 2022|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Featured Voices, Media Release, Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch Program, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Download Joy Productions, Luvia Petersen, Telefilm Talent to Watch, WIDC Advantage Award|

Carolyn Saunders wins 2022 WIDC BANFF World Media Festival Fellowship Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 2022, Vancouver, BC. – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce that award-winning Canadian/UK writer/director, Carolyn Saunders is the 2022 recipient of the WIDC BANFF Fellowship Award. Made possible through a long-standing partnership, the fellowship is designed to provide one WIDC alumna with the opportunity to network and advance her projects [...]

By CW|2022-08-22T13:01:48-07:00May 23rd, 2022|Categories: Awards & Accolades, BANFF Fellowship, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Banff, Banff World Media Fellowship, Banff World Media Festival, Carolyn Saunders, Jenn Kuzmyk, Joy Haskell, rebeka Herron|

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|