WIDC Awards – Page 4

A71 acquires Canadian distribution for WIDC Feature Film Award winner Marie Clements’ Red Snow

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, ON - October, 2019 - Following World Premiere screenings at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Edmonton International Film Festival in September and the recent screening at the 2019 ImagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto, Canadian distributor A-71 has acquired Canadian theatrical distribution rights to acclaimed Métis-Dene playwright/director/producer/ screenwriter Marie Clements’ narrative feature debut Red Snow. A71 [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:26:34-07:00November 1st, 2019|Categories: Back Stories, feature film, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: A71, APTN, Canada Media Fund, CBC Films, Creative BC, Marie Clements, Red Snow, Telefilm Canada|

WIDC Announces 2019 BANFF Fellowship Recipients

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 5, 2019 - WIDC organizers are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 WIDC BANFF Fellowship sponsored by Telefilm Canada. WIDC alumnae Cjay Boisclair and Melanee Murray Hunt will attend the BANFF World Media Festival, June 9 to 12, 2019. Cjay Boisclair is the recipient of the 2018 WIDC Short Works Award: Kamloops edition [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:16:41-07:00June 5th, 2019|Categories: Awards & Accolades, BANFF Fellowship, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Banff World Media Fellowship, Cjay-Boisclair, Melanee Murray-Hunt, Telefilm Canada|

Four Western-based Directors Selected for WIDC Career Advancement Module Vancouver

Collaborating with Women In Film and Television Vancouver FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -March 2019: Four western-based women directors have been selected to partake in the next edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place during the Vancouver International Women In Film Festival, March 5 to 10, 2019. Aiming to generate career momentum while they develop pitch [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:16:57-07:00March 3rd, 2019|Categories: Career Advancement, Featured Voices, Media Release, Outreach, Program Announcements, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: A-71, Annelise Larson, Carol Whiteman, Jean Parsons, Michelle Brezinski, Moinque Hurteau, Susan Curran, Suza Singh, Telefilm Canada, TELUS STORYHIVE, WIFTV|

Shelley Thompson wins WIDC Feature Film Award $200K Prize to be presented at Whistler Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2018) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Shelley Thompson is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2018 national WIDC Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize of services and rentals valued at up to $200K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Nova Scotia-based Thompson, best known for her portrayal of [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2021-06-10T19:25:07-07:00November 29th, 2018|Categories: Awards & Accolades, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC Awards|Tags: Keslow Camera, Panavision, Panavision Canada, Poste Moderne, Shelley Thompson, SIM, Walter Lighting and Grip, William F. White International Inc.|

Principal Photography Underway on WIDC Feature Film Award: QUEEN OF THE MORNING CALM, directed by Gloria Ui Young Kim

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, November, 2018 – The latest of three WIDC-supported Feature Film Award films to go to camera this year, Women In the Director’s Chair organizers and Gloryous Productions are delighted to announce that principal photography is underway on Queen of the Morning Calm, a powerful feature-length drama about a single mother and her daughter, and their [...]

By CW|2021-06-10T19:25:29-07:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Back Stories, feature film, Feature Film Award, Featured Voices, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Eponine Lee, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Jesse LaVercombe, Josh Barsky, Panavision Canada, Shaun Benson, SIM, Sonya Di Rienzo, Tina Jung, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F. White International Inc.|

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|

Launching WIDC Short Works Lab Award with Winnipeg Film Group

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2018 Vancouver/Winnipeg: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) is collaborating with the Winnipeg Film Group to offer a new WIDC Short Works Award for women interested in advancing their careers in directing screen fiction. This lab will be free and is designed to provide a prize package for up to 3 women directors including [...]

By CW|2018-04-30T14:45:06-07:00March 28th, 2018|Categories: Media Release, Outreach, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: Short Works Award, WIDC, Winnipeg Film Group, Women Directors|

WIDC Feature Film Award winner, Marie Clements’ much-anticipated feature-length drama, Red Snow has begun principal photography in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22nd, 2018, Vancouver, BC) Producers Marie Clements (MCM Inc.), Lael McCall (Principia Productions), Michelle Morris (Lily Pictures), and the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers announce the start of production on Marie Clements’ much-anticipated feature-length drama, Red Snow. Principal photography began in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, March 20, 2018. The production then moves to the [...]

By CW|2018-04-30T14:46:37-07:00March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: #CBCBreakingBarriers, #RedSnow, APTN, Creative BC, Harold Greenberg Fund, Lael McCall, Lily Pictures, Marie Clements, Mehernaz Lentin, Michelle Morris, Northwest Territories Film Rebate program, Principia Productions, Red Snow, Telefilm Canada, WIDC|