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Submission Deadline – WIDC Career Advancement Module (spring / summer 2025)

Up to 8 director participants attend an intensive, tailored masterclasses and roundtables for mid-career women and non-binary filmmakers focusing on career advancement and scripted content development. For this specially designed module that dovetails with partnering Canadian Film Festivals, director participants are selected by a WIDC alumni peer jury along with representatives from host festivals. DEADLINE: January 15, 2025 PROGRAM DATES: March 1 to September 30, 2025 First week - intensive Followed by once per week sessions for total 6 months.

Submission Deadline: WIDC Story & Leadership, Winter 2025-26

A one-of-a-kind professional development award program delivered in four parts over the course of four months; focusing on the development of live-action screen fiction (feature film, web and TV series) and offering pathways to effective authentic leadership.

Submission Deadline: Career Advancement Module (fall/winter 2026/27)

Presented with major support from Telefilm Canada and the participation of St John's International Women's Film Festival and Reelworld Film Festival and Screen Institute. Session Dates: October 2026 to April 2027, (intensive week one then twice a month) Workshop Summary: In addition to Zoom sessions (one-to-one and group) designed to advance the development of at least one fiction project each [...]

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC)
Offering tailored mentorship, project development, workshops, production awards, and made-to-order outreach initiatives, WIDC builds capacity for women and non-binary screen directors to advance their careers and narrative screen projects in a safe collegial setting.

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WIDC recognizes the term Woman/Women is in an evolution of language and note that our intention in our use is to be fully inclusive of underrepresented persons who may identify as she/her and or they/them and share the goals and values of WIDC to promote these marginalized voices and stories.

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1.778.809.0747 | toll free: 1.877.913.0747

Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC)
PO Box 51505, 802 Main Street South, Park Royal
West Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V7T 2X9

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We gratefully acknowledge that the WIDC program originates from the traditional and unceded lands of the Coast Salish people, including the xmkym (Musqueam), Swxwu7mesh (Squamish), and slilwta (Tseil-wau-tuth) Nations. We also acknowledge the Indigenous Nations on whose traditional lands our guests, participants, and colleagues live, work and create. We commit to working together in the spirit of collaboration and respect for the generations that came before, those living now, and the generations to come.

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