WIDC represents at 2024 Leo Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, BC – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to uplift the tremendous showing of WIDC alumni, including WIDC co-creator and producer, Dr. Carol Whiteman, at the 2024 Leo Awards, presented by the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, a not-for-profit [...]
Jenny Lee-Gilmore Wins 2024 WIDC Advantage Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2024 – The organizers of Canada’s acclaimed Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program are delighted to announce that recent Story & Leadership alum, Jenny Lee-Gilmore is the recipient of the 2024 WIDC Advantage Award for her debut feature film, Dormant. The prize includes a one-year mentorship [...]
2024 WIDC BANFF World Media Festival Fellowship Award Recipients Announced: Virginia Abramovich and Kate Green
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 6, 2024, Vancouver, BC.) – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are pleased to announce the award-winning writer/directors Virginia Abramovich (Between Waves) and Kate Green (NarcoLeap) are the 2024 recipients of the WIDC BANFF Fellowship Award. Made possible through [...]
Marjan Hashemi receives 2023 WIDC Feature Film Award $250,000 worth of in-kind services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (November 2023) – Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to announce that award-winning Iranian-Canadian filmmaker, Marjan Hashemi will take home the 2023 WIDC Feature Film Award, for her dark comedy debut feature, After Love about an Iranian-Canadian immigrant wife who learns from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]