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WIDC PROGRAM  

 Note: Extended deadline for WIDC FEATURE FILM AWARD!!

 February 8, 2013

(For and application form please contact Carol Whiteman)

carol@creativewomenworkshops.com 

 

For Women Directors

STORY INCUBATION MODULE (SIM) and 

PREP PRODUCTION & POST PRODUCTION MODULE (PPPM) 

Workshop Dates: SIM - November 23 to 26, 2012
Workshop Dates: PPPM - January 17 to February 2, 2013

Applications and Criteria 

ANNUAL DEADLINE: August 31


For Actors and Crew

PREP PRODUCTION & POST PRODUCTION (PPPM) 

Workshop Dates: PPPM - January 17 to February 2, 2013

Applications & Criteria
Actors Professional Crew | Work Study Crew

Note: Open to female and male applicants

 ANNUAL DEADLINE: November 30 



 For Director Alumnae

ONGOING ADVANCEMENT MODULE

WIDC BANFF Fellowship

Open to WIDC alumnae; a full access pass to the 
Banff World Media Festival, plus coaching from CWWA.

Next Deadline: April 30

WIDC Feature Film Award
Open to any Canadian woman screen director; 
a prize valued at $120,000 in kind rentals from some of Canada's most prominent industry companies, towards a fiction feature film that she is set to direct; plus mentoring from CWWA.


Note: EXTENDED DEADLINE: February 8

 


WIDC Career Advancement Module (CAM)
An intensive career coaching session with Industry professionals for four women filmmakers per session.  Held in collaboration with the St John's International Women's Film Festival, the Vancouver Women In film Festival, and the Female Eye Film Festival.

Next Deadlines:
September 30 (SJIWFF, St John's Session)

January 31 (VWIFF, Vancouver Session)

February 15 (FeFF, Toronto Session)

~Congratulations WIDC AWARD WINNERS~

 

WIDC Feature Film Award

Marie Clements ~ 2012
Ana Valine ~ 2011 
media release

CTV WIDC Director Development Award
Carole Ducharme ~ 2011 media release

WIDC BANFF Fellowship
Wendy Ord ~ 2011 media release

WIDC 2013 Modules 1 & 2 Directors' Chairs
Katrina Beatty, Christine Buijs, Nikila Cole, Melanie M. Jones, 

Anne Kmetyko, Lea Nakonechny, Jill Riley, Karen X. Tulchinsky 

 WIDC 2013 Director Bios

WIDC 2012 Director Bios

WIDC 2011 Director Bios

WIDC CAM 2011 - 12
E.Jane Thompson & Soledad Porta ~ St John's

Siobhan Devine & Karen Lam - Vancouver

Alana Cymerman & Lauren Grant - Toronto

WIDC CAM 2012 - 13 

Jordan Canning & Elsa Morena - St John's 

WIDC 15th Anniversary Newsletter
WIDC Alumnae have created or co-created 4x successful fiction TV Series
FLASHPOINT (CTV/CBS) ~ Stephanie Morgenstern
COMBAT HOSPITAL (Global/ABC) ~ Jinder Oujla-Chalmers
LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE (CBC) ~ Zarqa Nawaz
ANASH AND THE LEGACY OF THE SUN ROCK (APTN) ~ Carol Geddes



Collaborate Create Transform: Vision into Reality



 

Creative Women Workshops Association

  • Strengthening the voice of Canadian women story-tellers through film, television and video drama.

  • Promoting and developing excellence behind and in front of the lens.

  • Encouraging a diversity of stories for screen told from women's perspectives.


PRESENTING PARTNERS
For more information contact:

WIDC Workshop Producer, Carol Whiteman

Film and New Media Coordinator, Greta Hall


Public Relations Officer, Carol Taverner



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