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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.|

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|

Canadian Directors receive WIDC Awards worth over $265k towards development and production of original content

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2022) – November 27, 2022, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers handed out multiple awards valued at over $265k, including cash and in-kind services towards development, production and post production of women*-directed projects. Top prize winner, Susanne Serres takes home the 2022 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dramatic debut feature Celestine about [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-07-21T09:09:45-07:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: Director Development Award, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|Tags: CBC Films, Kim Albright, Lindsay McIntyre, Marie Clements, Nauzanin Knight, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Susanne Serres, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, WIDC Awards, Women Directors|

Eight Canadian Directors to Develop Original Content at WIDC Story & Leadership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 2022 (Vancouver BC), Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian directors selected to attend the Women In the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program, presented in collaboration with the Whistler Film Festival. Five of this year’s Story & Leadership cohort of directors are award-winning ACTRA members, including Toronto-based [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2023-04-27T13:10:26-07:00November 17th, 2022|Categories: Media Release, Story & Leadership, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Creative BC, Independent Production Fund, KC Carthew, Liz Whitmere, Luvia Petersen, Madison Thomas, Marie Clements, Mina Shum, Naomi Mark, Nika Belianina, Osas Eweka-Smith, Rebecca Gibson, Sam Coyle, Sarah Strange, Supinder Wraich, Telefilm Canada|

Directors Announced for WIDC Career Advancement Module Fall 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2022: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers 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). The Fall 2022 edition of the CAM partners with Canada’s Reelworld Film Festival and the St John’s International Women’s Film Festival. Workshop sessions run through the [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-10-17T12:27:33-07:00October 11th, 2022|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: ACTRA, AFBS, Andrea Martinez-Crowther, Asis Sethi, Cailleah Scott-Grimes, Catharine Parke, Creative BC, Elizabeth Fraser, Giselle Miller, Holly Brace-Lavoie, IPF, Reelworld Film Festival, Reelworld Screen Institute, Shelly Hong, St John's International Women's Film Festival, Telefilm Canada|

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|

Women In the Director’s Chair Selects Nine Women and Non-binary Directors For Spring Edition of Career Advancement Module

Pictured: Top: Lisa Robertson, Marielle Quesney, Katelyn McCulloch, Gianna Isabella, Rolla Tahir Bottom: Mily Mumford, Frieda Luk, Anna Wheeler, Gia Milani FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – March 2022: Women In the Director’s Chair organizers are pleased to announce the nine women and non-binary directors selected to take part in the upcoming edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM). Celebrating its [...]

By WIDC News Editor|2022-03-09T17:45:37-08:00March 8th, 2022|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC, Women Directors|Tags: Anna Wheeler, FeFF, Frieda Luk, Gia Milani, Gianna Isabella, Katelyn McCulloch, Lisa Robertson, Marielle Quesney, Mily Mumford, Rolla Tahir, VIWFF, WIDC, Women Directors|

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|