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WIDC Feature Film SUCK IT UP Tapped for World Premiere at Slamdance Film Festival

Suck It Up: 1 of 5 Films, and only Canadian Film in the “Beyond” Program Facebook: www.facebook.com/suckitupmovie Twitter: www.twitter.com/suckitupmovie Instagram: www.instagram.com/suckitupmovie FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2016 - Toronto, ON; Suck It Up, the second feature film by WIDC alumna director Jordan Canning (We Were Wolves, TIFF’14) will have its World Premiere at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival, [...]

By CW|2016-12-12T12:25:39-08:00December 12th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Harold Greenberg Fund, Jordan Canning, Suck It Up, WIDC Feature Film Award, William F White Intl|

Gloria Ui Young Kim wins WIDC Feature Film Award: $190K Prize Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2016) – Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Gloria Ui Young Kim is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2016 national WIDC Feature Film Award, a cash and in-kind prize valued at $190K, designed to encourage more feature films directed by women. Administered by the organizers of Canada’s respected Women In the Director’s Chair [...]

By CW|2016-11-22T09:58:10-08:00November 22nd, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Feature Film Award, Feature Films, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Tattersall Picture and Sound, Technicolor Toronto, Telefilm Canada, WIDC, William F. White, Women Directors|

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) Selects This Year’s Eight Director Participants For Story & Leadership Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 2016 (Vancouver BC) Following the launch of its collaboration with Canada Screens, to curate a new women-director-focused VOD Channel, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the eight Canadian women directors who will attend the 20th anniversary session of the highly acclaimed script development and director mentoring program WIDC: Story [...]

By CW|2017-11-03T13:30:44-07:00October 31st, 2016|Categories: Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Gloria Ui Young Kim, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kate Green, Madison Thomas, Melanie Oates, Rama Rau, Shelley Thompson, Telefilm Canada, Telus Optik Local, Virginia Abramovich, Whistler Film Festival, WIDC, Winnifred Jong, Women Directors|

Canadian Women Directors Get VOD Channel on October 27

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, BC -- For anyone who’s ever wondered where they can find more films directed by women, First Weekend Club's Canada Screens will launch a new VOD channel dedicated exclusively to female directors, curated by Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC). In addition, each feature film will be paired with a complimentary woman-directed short film, courtesy of the National Film Board [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Canada Screens, Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Anita Adams, BC Federation of Labour, Canada Screens, Carol Whiteman, NFB, Siobhan Devine, The Birdwatcher, UBCP/ACTRA, VOD, Women Directors, Women's Rights Committee|

Announcing Directors for WIDC Career Advancement Module St John’s

WIDC CAM St John's 2016 Director Participants (L to R) Emily Bridger, Wanda Nolan, Melanie Oates, Carolyn Saunders FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 2016: Organizers of the Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program are pleased to announce the four women directors selected to partake in the next edition of the WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM) slated to take place [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00September 29th, 2016|Categories: Career Advancement, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: St John's International Women's Film Festival, Telefilm Canada, Telus Optik Local, WIDC, Women Directors|

Unprecedented International Collective Stands Together at TIFF ‘16

#DirectHERs #seeHERnow WIDC is proud to be part of a groundbreaking collective of 12 international women’s film and television organizations, film festivals, media outlets, and production companies, that are coming together for the first time at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), to promote the shared goal of increasing the number of women in the director’s chair. In this [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00September 1st, 2016|Categories: Media Release|Tags: Alliance of Women Directors, Black Women Film! Canada, Film, Film Fatales, NYWIFT, Tangerine Entertainment, TIFF, WIDC, WIFT, WIFT-AT, WIFTV, Women and Hollywood, Women Directors, Women In the Director's Chair, Women In View|

WIDC Feature Film Award: Now valued at $190K

WIDC Signs $120K Three-year Agreement with William F. White International – Technicolor, Skylab, MELS, and The Research House offer support to Feature Film Award for Women Directors Next submission deadline: June 30, 2016 For more information: Applications FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June, 2016: Toronto, ON – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce a new sponsorship agreement [...]

By CW|2016-06-28T05:57:18-07:00June 20th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Ana Valine, Jordan Canning, Kathleen Hepburn, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, MELS Studios, Siobhan Devine, Skylab, Technicolor Toronto, WIDC, William F. White International Inc.|

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|

WIDC Feature Film Award-winning ‘SUCK IT UP’ goes to camera, Jordan Canning directing

“SUCK IT UP” STARRING ERIN CARTER, GRACE GLOWICKI DIRECTED BY JORDAN CANNING, GOES TO CAMERA IN THE HEART OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES DAN BEIRNE AND MICHAEL ROWE JOIN THE CAST For immediate release - (May 31, 2016 – Invermere, B.C.) Principal photography is underway on the comedic drama SUCK IT UP directed by Jordan Canning (We Were Wolves). The feature is [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00June 3rd, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release|Tags: Jordan Canning, Suck It Up, WIDC, Women Directors|

Soda Pictures Picks up Never Steady, Never Still for Canadian and UK Distribution as Shooting Recommences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 May 2016: Following an extraordinary winter shoot, which saw cast and crew taking on the challenge of filming in freezing conditions in Northern British Columbia, shooting recommences on Never Steady, Never Still, the debut feature from award-winning filmmaker Kathleen Hepburn. Principle photography begins again May 20th in historic Fort St. James, BC. “Soda Pictures UK has [...]

By CW|2016-11-15T00:08:38-08:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Feature Film Award, Media Release, WIDC|Tags: Christie Street Creative, Experimental Forest Productions, Feature Film Award, Harold Greenberg Fund, Kathleen Hepburn, Never Steady, Never Still, Shirley Henderson, Soda Pictures, Telefilm Canada, TIFF, VIFF, Women Directors, Women In Film|