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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 her defiant daughter and her murderously amorous husband how to [...]

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Pamela Gallant wins 2019 WIDC Feature Film Award

$200k prize presented at Whistler Film Festival FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, Canada (December 8, 2019) – Award-winning Acadian-Canadian filmmaker Pamela Gallant is the winner of the Women In the Director’s Chair’s 2019 national WIDC Feature Film Award, an in-kind prize of up to $200K in services and rentals, designed to encourage more feature films directed by Canadian women and [...]

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