FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) organizers are delighted to share the news that WIDC alumni and their projects have received multiple nominations for the 2024 DGC Awards.

The WIDC alumni nominees include:

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY

Shannon Walsh – Adrianne & the Castle

DGC JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DISCOVERY AWARD

Melanie Oates – Sweet Angel Baby

BEST SHORT FILM

Liz Whitmere – Cold

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FILM (LIMITED BUDGET)

Stephen Britton Osler – Monica’s News

Xavier Georges – Sweet Angel Baby

BEST SOUND EDITING – FEATURE FILM

Claudia Pinto, Kelly McGahey – Sweet Angel Baby

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES

Hannah Cheesman & Team – Something Undone, Make Yourselves Clean

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN FAMILY SERIES

Winnifred Jong & Team – Jane, Ailuropoda melanoleuca

OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION OR MINI-SERIES

Marie Clements & Team – Bones of Crows, To Be Here

Nimisha Mukerji & Team – Under the Bridge, Beautiful British Columbia

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – DRAMATIC SERIES & MINI-SERIES

James Philpott – Bones of Crows, To Be Starved

September 15, the DGC announced the long-list for the DGC JEAN-MARC VALÉE DISCOVERY AWARD which also included WIDC alumni:

Liz Cairns – Inedia
Pamela Gallant  – Monica’s News
Tamara Segura – Seguridad
Nadine Valcin – Simply Johanne

The DGC Awards will be announced online October 28, 2024.

ABOUT WIDC

Founded in 1996/97, Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC) is an internationally respected Canadian professional development offering, specially designed to advance the skills, careers and fiction screen projects of mid-career women and non-binary directors. Over 375 director alumni across Canada earn hundreds of awards and nominations for their work annually and their work reaches millions of audiences world-wide. Co-created by representatives of ACTRA, GEMS Vancouver (formerly Women In Film and Television Vancouver), and The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity which was its home venue for eighteen years, WIDC is presented with major support from Telefilm Canada, and Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada, and with the participation of Creative BC, Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, ACTRA National, UBCP/ACTRA, Independent Production Fund.

WIDC community collaborators include the National Film Board, St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Reelworld Film Festival and Screen Institute, GEMFest, Female Eye Film Festival, DGC, DGC, BC, Crazy 8’s, TIFF, VIFF, the Whistler Film Festival, and GAT PR.

WIDC Feature Film Award is supported by MELS Studios, Keslow Camera, Panavision Canada, JAM POST Inc., Rocket Science VFX, Distillery VFX, Sunbelt TV & Film Rentals, Elemental Post, Company3 Vancouver, AA VFX, North Shore Studios, The Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, The Research House Clearance Services Inc., Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc., Descriptive Video Works, Line 21 Media Services, Power of Babel, EP Canada, Portable Electric, Champ & Pepper.