15Th Anniversary Edition
15th Anniversary Edition
Shining a Spotlight 15 Years 150 Women Directors Limitless Talent
CREATIVE WOMEN WORKSHOPS ASSOCIATION Providing major support since 1997 WIDC PROGRAM
Challenging, uncompromising and caring, “ WIDC has forged an approach to creative“ training in film that is road tested and has proved consistently successful. Gaylene Preston ONZM, NZ Arts Foundation Laureate, Independent Filmmaker, WIDC 2011 Mentor Director
MODULE 1 MODULE 2 STORY INCUBATION MODULE 3 MODULE (SIM) November 25 to 28, 2011 Leadership, story and character development from the director’s perspective led by Jungian expert, Dr Carolyn Mamchur; followed by five weeks of story-editing with a senior story editor. PREP, PRODUCTION & POST PRODUCTION ONGOING MODULE (PPPM) ADVANCEMENT January 12 to 29, 2012 MODULE (OAM) Mentorship, hands-on practice Follow-up, mini-master in all aspects of the screen- classes, networking events, based creative process, awards, fellowships. led by senior mentors and supported by professionals.
CWWA sponsors Female Eye Film Festival Best in the Biz Tribute to Honorary Director, a mini-master class with 2011 honoree, Mary Harron.
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WIDC consistently attracts high caliber professionals who share their expertise, insights and love of creative exploration with all participants. Many thanks to the people behind 15 years of WIDC.
WIDC Producer, Carol Whiteman; Mentor Directors, Anne Robitaille, Diana Cafazzo, Sandra Richmond, Pat Wheeler, Stacey Stewart Curtis, Norma Bailey, Nancy Malone, Ferns, Peter Lhotka, Tom Cox, Doug McLeod, Janet Greek, Lynn Hamrick, Nanci Rossov, Patricia Rozema, Catherine Middleton, CWWA Board members Gaylene Preston, Lea Pool, Donna Deitch, Kari Skogland; past and present, Carol Whiteman, Brian Directors of Photography, Roger Vernon, Peter Woeste, Gromoff,Sara Diamond, Susan Kennard, Kerry Tony Westman, Dean Bennett, Peter Wunstorf, Gregory Middleton, Stauffer, Tammy Bentz, Katie Tallo, Anita Doron, Robin Loewen, Harvey La Rocque, Andreas Poulsson, Richard Mary Bissell, Rita Shelton Deverell, Carole Walden, Bob Aschmann, Bob Saad, and the late Richard Ducharme, Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, and too many Lieterman; Production Designers, John Blackie, Myron to list,the hundreds of ACTRA actors, DGC and Hyrak, Louise Middleton, Cathy Cowan, Janet Lakeman, Celine IATSE crew, and workstudy crew volunteers, The Godberson, Terry Gunvordahl; Mentor Actors, Lori Triolo, Banff Centre staff; and an extra special thank Rosemary Dunsmore, G. Christianne Hirt Shaw, Janet Laine you for a 10th anniversary visit from former Green, Iris Quinn, Brenda Basinet, Veena Sood; Story Editors, Governor General of Canada, her Excellency the Peg Campbell, Carolyn Mamchur, Linda Coffey; Picture Editors, Right Honorable Michaelle Jean. Lisa Binkley, Susan Shipton, Mary Ungerleider, Daria Ellerman, Richard Schwadel, Roger Mattiussi, Paul Mortimer, James Ilecic, Sophie Mardirosian, Kerry Stauffer; Audio Post Production, WIDC 15-YEAR SERVICE Orest Sushko, Frank Laratta, Mike Shields; Industry Executives, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Trish Williams, Rebecca Dipasquale, Robert Hardy, Virginia Rankin, Marguerite Pigott, Maureen Levitt, Janice Talbott, Caterina DeNave, CWWA: Carol Whiteman John Dippong, Anne Frank, Gordon Whittaker, Jamie Gaetz, Martin ACTRA: Brian Gromoff Harbury, Anna Stratton, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Lael McCall, Jan The Banff Centre: Nathanson, Trish Dolman, Camelia Frieberg, Mary Quinn, Helen Luke Van Dyk, Aubrey Fernandez Asimakis, Lesley Grant, Suzanne Chapman, Brad Pelman, Lucie WIDC 2011 PPPM
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Made possible through the generous support of the CTV-CHUM tangible benefits, CWWA was able to deliver two award programs and provide 34 scholarships to WIDC directors.
CTV WIDC CAREER ADVANCEMENT MODULE (CAM) Delivered in collaboration with three women’s film festivals over three years, 36 women content creators advanced their careers and projects (see alumnae updates). Congratulations to this year’s CAM participants, pictured behind the CAM mentors.
ST JOHN’’’ S INTERNATIONAL FEMALE EYE FILM VANCOUVER WOMEN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL (TORONTO) IN FILM FESTIVAL Ann Marie Fleming, Dana Warren, Katrin Bowen, Sharon Lewis, Wendy Ord, Mauri Bernstein, Brianne Nord-Stewart, Nelofer Pazira Valerie Buhagiar, Anna Sikorski Ana de Lara, France Benoit (also pictured l, Leslie Ann Coles, FeFF)
With thanks to CAM Mentors, Telefilm Canada’s Gordon Whitaker, John Dippong, Anne Frank; Independent producers Anna Stratton, Mary Anne Waterhouse; Super Channel’s Marguerite Pigott; CTV representatives Trish Williams and Rebecca Dipasquale, and WIDC Producer, Carol Whiteman.
CTV WIDC DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT AWARD
The third and final $10,000 prize from the CTV-CHUM benefits; awarded to Carole Ducharme who
uses the award to attend BANFF and further her hilarious feature film directorial debut,The Donor. This award gives me so much more energy“ “ to go after other financing sources and make my feature film a reality.
Carole Ducharme
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WIDC FEATURE FILM AWARD $120,000 in kind support towards a feature film directed by a Canadian woman; awarded to 2010 “Ana will undoubtedly bring a great CTV WIDC CAM alumna, Ana Valine. deal of humanity to the screen through the compelling characters of Sitting on the Edge of Marlene. We’re looking forward to working with the team on this deserving project.” Ed Brando Sales Manager, William F White International
The WIDC Feature Film Award
“will help us make Sitting on
the Edge of Marlene a reality and will certainly help“ build the kind of momentum every project needs. Ana Valine WFW CEO, Paul Bronfman with WIDC FF winners, Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating, and Ana Valine
With thanks to Women In Film and Television Vancouver for providing the award presentation venue and, Wendy D Photography
WIDC BANFF FELLOWSHIP
A full festival pass and coaching from CWWA; awarded to
2011 CTV WIDC CAM alumna, Wendy Ord. This opportunity comes at the perfect“ time for me. “ I’ve been developing a diverse slate of projects that are now poised to move ahead. Wendy Ord
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ARLIN MCFARLANE, 2011 Director “The opportunity to practice the art of directing, on a professional set, in a supportive environment, is a true gift.”
EVA COLMERS, 2011 Director “WIDC is by far one of the most realistic and intense yet incredibly creative and nurturing learning experiences for directors…”
SIOBHAN DEVINE, 2011 Director “There are few ways I can think of to spend money and get so much gratitude.”
JANE SOWERBY, 2011 Director HEATHER ALLIN, 2011 Acting Ensemble “…my determination is more fuelled than “…a brilliant balance of training and ever to bring my stories onto the big creative incubus…building skilled members screen…” of a mature film and television industry…”
JUANITA PETERS, 2011 Director REBECCA APPLEBAUM, 2011 Acting Ensemble “…a one of a kind program “The amount of learning that takes place is through the roof.” from start to finish…” DARIUS MATHESON, VALERIE BUHAGIAR, 2011 CAM 2011 Professional Crew, DGC, BC “[I am] grateful to have met so many helpful “…a valuable enrichment program…” and generous mentors...” TONY WESTMAN 2011 Mentor DOP, IATSE 669 “WIDC is a tectonic shift as a learning experience.”
TIM DUTCHAK 2011 Professional Crew, IATSE 212 “…a great learning experience for the instructors as well as the participants.”
MICHELLE LEMIEUX 2011 Professional Crew, IATSE 891 “Please keep this program running!”
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E. JANE THOMPSON, 2010 Director “It’s been a very busy year plus since WIDC 2010 and the workshop propelled me into a highly productive phase!”
CAROLYNE STOSSEL, 2010 CAM “Canadian female directors are so very fortunate to have the WIDC in our corner...“
MICHELLE WONG, 2008 Director “Without a doubt, attending WIDC has had a positive impact on my work. Not only was the experience a great opportunity for my professional development, DUSTY KELLY, IATSE 891 the connections and contacts I made continue ”WIDC sets the bar for mentorship programs to inform my work.” in the film and television industry.”
TARA HUNGERFORD, 2007 Director ANDRA SHEFFER, Independent Production Fund “…the WIDC workshop reminded me that if you stay “Many of WIDC’s graduates have gone on to focused and strike a healthy balance, it is possible to make their mark on our industry, bringing raise a family and work as a successful filmmaker.” new perspectives, new skills, new contacts, new insights and new energies to Canadian MEGHNA HALDAR, 2005 Director film and television productions. Happy “The WIDC has imprinted the way I collaborate… Anniversary!” as women, we are not alone with our celluloid dreams.” BOB LOGAN, Panavision Canada COLINA PHILLIPS, 1997 Director “Panavision supports education and “WIDC… holds my place in the film industry by training in our industry and the WIDC consistently reminding me …that I have roots in film. program with their continuing effort to WIDC celebrates my efforts to begin again.” further opportunities for Canadian women filmmakers.”
JAY SMITH, ACTRA Alberta “One way our motion pictures would prosper is with more women in the key director’s jobs. Thank goodness for the successes of the fifteen years of work by the Women In the Director’s Chair program!”
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blogger. Over the past year, she has created a for Best Doc: Image+Nation, Montreal, Elle 1997 highly successful blog with thousands of readers Flanders Audience Award for Best Documentary, called Momentum Gathering. She has also InsideOut, Toronto, Audience Award for Best Doc, caught the attention of some of the world’s top OutFilm CT, Director’s Award, OutFilm CT, Best ANNIE FRAZIER HENRY is in bloggers, forged relationships with several and Doc, Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, Audience development with the documentary, , Aytsultha is now collaborating on a number of innovative Award, Best Feature, InsideOut Ottawa, Audience the story of a young girl’s coming-of-age online ventures in an effort to creatively inspire Award, Best Feature, ReelOut Kingston. ceremony. Annie is co-writer and producer. Annie others to achieve their goals. Katie is the V-P, www.augustaproductions.com is also developing a dramatic series, with a ‘6th CWWA Board of Directors. sense-edge’, set in Victoria. Co-writing with Steve Lucas, her company, Full Regalia, is producing. 2000 She is also writing a new slacker-comedy, her 1998 first sinceDon’t Call Me Tonto. The film is set in MIEKO OUCHI is an Edmonton-based her family slacker-hood of Gibsons, BC. PEPITA FERRARI, has just completed actor, writer, and director. Her documentary, a beautiful short film, www.nfb.ca/film/source( ), narrative and experimental films have played COLINA PHILLIPS debut film ’ Making on Canadian dance icon Margie Gillis, a recipient over 30 festivals and aired internationally. Her was chosen to screen in Witness as Change of one of the 2011 Governor General Awards plays have been Desired, a celebration of African Canadian for Lifetime Achievement in the Performing produced across film, part of a symposium on artistic practice Arts. Over the past year Pepita was invited the country, and African diasporic communities in Canada to give workshops and master classes on translated into organized by Wedge Curatorial Projects. She documentary at the California College for the four languages is developing Leap Year Hoedown, which will tell Arts, Pennsylvania University and the Okanagan and been finalists the vintage love story of the Wares, who Summer School of the Arts. In addition to for the Governor- are significant figures in Canadian history, developing two new documentary projects of her General’s portrayed in a stream of dynamic choreography own, she continues her work as a consultant to Literary Award for Drama and the City of and historic music. emerging documentary talents, most recently Edmonton Book Prize, winning the Carol Bolt on Shannon Walsh’s St-Henri, the 26th of August Award. Recent projects include playing Nori MEGAN SMITH-HARRIS, continues which premiered at Hot Docs 2011. Pepita Sato on the first two seasons of the Global TV to helm Pyewackitt Productions, an independent was recently appointed to the executive of the series, The Guard, working as an actor with television and film production company with a national board of the Documentary Organization Daniel MacIvor on his new play Arigato, Tokyo commitment to developing powerful, socially of Canada (DOC) and is a founding member of and premiering her new play Nisei Blue at Alberta relevant stories the new national grassroots campaign We Love Theatre Project’s Enbridge playRites Festival. with a unique Documentary: www.WeLoveDocumentary.com. perspective. BETTY THOMAS QUEE is busy Currently, she STEPHANIE MORGENSTERN, overseeing the day to day operations of the is wrapping is co-creator, co-executive producer and Thomas FX Group Inc. up principal co-writer on the hit Gemini Award winning series photography Flashpoint, which has been renewed for its fourth for, Trial by Fire: season and airs on CTV / CBS. The series has , 2001 Lives Re-forged earned a syndication deal with Ion in the US a feature length and Stephanie and her partner Mark Ellis won documentary a Writers Guild of Canada Award for one of DONNA BRUNSDALE continues about the journeys of burn survivors as they their scripts. to teach film studies at the University of reclaim and re-forge their lives after the Calgary, recently including screenwriting and devastation of fire. Her two-hour special, a course on the political economy of film Surrogate Stories, airs on WEtv, fall 2011. 1999 festivals. She is finishing work on a short film, Playground Dangers, and continues to develop KATIE TALLO, after a twenty year a feature screenplay, Nina and Troy, which was FIF FERNANDES career in film and television as a director, writer is presenting laughter funded through the Canada Council. She also and producer, workshops for schools, teacher’s conventions, continues to work on all aspects of the Calgary has parlayed her seniors’ facilities, non-profit organizations and Cinematheque, which wrapped up its fourth experience as a government. Along with Carolyn Pogue, she co- season, 2011. visual artist, writer, founded StoryJam, a theatre company all about peace, and The Art of Peace Camp, a summer story editor and CAROL GEDDES’ APTN animated camp for kids in Calgary. Fif facilitates regular entrepreneur into live action series Anash and the Legacy of Sun laughter sessions and loves every minute! becoming an online Rock was nominated for a 2011 Banff World content creator and Media Festival Rockie in the youth category and GERRY ROGERS’ feature documentary, received 10 AMPIA Award nominations. Ferron: Girl on a Road won the Audience Award
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Mates; The New Beginning MARILYN NORRY continues work on the high altitude, disputed Indo-China border; (Bravo!FACT); Happiness on My Mother’s Story, telling women’s history documented a remote community operating on School; I’m Going Home. one mother at a time. There’s a new Archive at principles of sustainability in the Kumaun Himalay; All are in various stages of our website www.mymothersstory.org where collaborated with filmmaker Paramita Nath on her festival touring. She has people all over the world can submit the story of documentary about goddess worship in Kolkata. also directed a trailer for their mother’s life. The first book of 39 stories She completed an interactive music video for the feature film My Mother’s Story: the originals has just been Sarah Harmer, produced in collaboration with the script, NeverLand. published and is available through the website. CFC. In Betlehem, she completed an animated And the community building exercise My Mother’s short film on Lust, part of a series on the seven Story: North Vancouver starts on Mother’s SHANDI MITCHELL is an award- sins produced by Amythos Media. The film will Day 2011 with the gathering of mother stories winning filmmaker, writer and recipient of the premiere from a whole community; it will culminate in a Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Media Arts Award. at the theatrical run telling nine stories in March 2012 Her debut novel, Under This Unbroken Sky, World at Presentation House Theatre. published in 11 countries including translations Wide in Hebrew, Short Film Dutch, Italian and Festival, ALISON REID received development Chinese, won the Cannes funding from Telefilm Canada for her next Commonwealth and on feature film, a thriller calledSensation with Regional Prize, Bravo! She writer Richard Beattie. Following the successful the Thomas received release her debut feature The Baby Formula, Head Raddall a grant from the Toronto Arts Council for the she was also among a small group of Canadian Fiction Award, completion of her short story and graphic filmmakers selected to pitch at the 2011 Cannes the Savage First Book Award, and was long-listed novella, Lola Grimm and the Humanity Machine. Film Festival. for the IMPAC Dublin Award. Her first feature film, A TED fellow, she spoke about the future of The Disappeared, with the support of Telefilm and storytelling at the FITC Conference. 2002 TMN, is slated for production summer/fall 2011. PATRICIA HARRIS SEELEY JACQUELINE SAMUDA is in earned a Gemini nomination for Best Direction ANNIE BRADLEY‘s filmPUDGE development with Sepia Films on her feature in a Lifestyle / Practical Information Program or continues to play festivals and win awards, screenplay, Ideal Kelly. Series for her work on X-Weighted: Families. She Annie also directed also wrote and directed five episodes of the new 13 episodes of ANDREA WEISSMAN-DANIELS series, Puppy SOS. W’s new hit series has left the world of film production to marry the Candice Tells All, boy next door and then adopt a spunky 8 year DESIREE LIM a 1 hr episode of old daughter. After nurturing this young woman is currently in post the docudrama for four years now, she has joined forces with production of her Duel Suspects, and the Children’s Aid Foundation to launch a new independent feature locked down the fund to provide at-risk children with the means film The House, a option on a best-selling series of novels to be to participate in artistic, recreational and psychological drama developed for TV. She is writing and directing an cultural activities. Currently, only 2% of these about a former episode of Primitive Entertainment’s new series children have access to such programs. Wall Street banker Canadian Made and directing a Bravo!FACT short Andrea is using all her producing, directing, confronting her featuring Rex Harrington and Evelyn Hart. She writing and performance skills in service of this inner demons while has also secured initial international financing for worthy cause. trapped in a house of the feature The Astronomy of Self which is set lost souls wandering in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has developed between two worlds - a number of TV series with network interest 2003 the living and the dead. through her company The Heat Mansion. MAIRZREE ALMAS directed two GENEVIEVE POULETTE is directing, SHIRLEY CHEECHOO has founded episodes of Smallville in their last season for a for the fourth season running, episodes of the the Weengushk Film Institute (WFI), a not-for-profit total of nine episodes with Smallville over the docu-drama series Killer Next Door, which airs artist-focused, film and television training centre, years since WDC. She also directed an episode on Discovery Channel (Québec) and Court TV, dedicated to unlocking the creative potential of of Sanctuary April 2010. fall 2011. She now has a new agent, the Agence Aboriginal Youth and persons of diversity. Artistique Duchesne. She’s also on the board of (www.weengushk.com) She is also slated to direct ANITA DORON traversed Northern FCTNM / WITFI Montréal. a feature film called elly’sK Bar, winter 2011. India with husband and fellow TED fellow Adam Huggins developing an NFB project on the lives PATTI HENDERSON directed five of soldiers who face off opposite one another short films including,Stella’s Birthday; Chess
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ZARQA NAWAZ, creator of the acclaimed ANNE MARIE NGO CBC series Little Mosque on the Prairie continued wrote, produced and directed 2006 writing for the series. her first feature filmÀ Trois Marie s’en va, slated to be in RITA SHELTON DEVERELL was local theatres June 2011. She appointed a 2011 Trudeau Foundation Mentor, 2004 is currently developing and and in an unusual move Mount Saint Vincent writing a thriller series University has asked her to stay for a third year TAMMY BENTZ is on hiatus from working for television. as Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies 2011-12. as Script Supervisor for the TV series Supernatural October 2010 saw the ground-breaking where she will be returning, July 2011. March production of her full-length play McCarthy and 2011, Tammy completed directing her short, 2005 the Old Woman by the School of Drama at the Around The Bend, at the Black Dog Video Store University of Washington in Seattle. The play is on Commercial Drive where she also acted as about Florence James, blacklisted Saskatchewan the film’s protagonist everyday superhero, Clare. SARAH MICHELLE BROWN set theatre pioneer, who was also Rita’s subject in Tammy’s her creative eye towards directing music videos, her 2006 WIDC short. Florence James’ book will short including the uplifting Keep Shining for Juno be published in 2011-12 by the Canadian Plains documentary, winner Shad. Coming up for 2011, she is working Research Centre with Rita’s Epilogue. 2011 also Passion towards the completion of two documentaries. sees the publication of Give Voice, 10 x 20-minute Hunter: www.sarahmichellebrown.com. plays by the Obsidian Theatre Playwrights Unit, Saying Yes, Playwrights Canada Press, edited by Rita, and featuring LESLIE ANN COLES received OMDC the third volume from the Aboriginal Healing champion development funding for her documentary series Foundation with Rita contributing a chapter. mountain Melody Maker, an intimate artist portrait featuring In addition she performed her one-woman show biker Amber Chorney Wilson, is slated for the Melody Maker Smoked Glass Ceiling for the 10th anniversary of Hot Springs Film Festival in Arkansas, fall 2011. Magazine rock’n roll the rock.paper.sistahz Festival in Toronto at the Previous short films have screened at the the photographer, Barrie Wychwood Theatre, May 2011. Whistler International Film Festival, the Moondance Wentzell. She is in International Film Festival in Boulder Colorado, the production with the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, and the Banff first two episodes JENNIFER Centre Summer Arts Festival. Tammy continues of Make It Raw, a KIERANS’’ feature a Jennifer kierans film teaching at the Vancouver Film School as well as raw vegan life style film The Bend earned a BCIT in addition to directing one of her busiest show. Leslie Ann theatrical release in select
FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL PREsENTs A DAY JOB AND ENTOURAGE FILMs PRODUcTION THE BEND ADAM BUTcHER sOPHIE TRAUB TOMMY LIOUTAs PETER KELEGHAN sAMANTHA MUNRO MIKE MAcDONALD projects yet, her soon-to-be-9-year-old son, Dane. sUsAN GLOVER wITH LEAH PINsENT AND RYAN KENNEDY MUsIc cOMPOsED BY PATRIcK KRIEF EDITED BY sIMON wEBB PRODUcTION DEsIGNER JONAs BOUcHARD is the Founder and cities across Canada. cOsTUME DEsIGNER cHANTAL DI FILLIPO DIREcTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MARc cHARLEBOIs c.s.c. ExEcUTIVE PRODUcER ANNE-MARIE GÉLINAs PRODUcED BY DEBRA KOURI JENNIFER KIERANs wRITTEN AND DIREcTED BY JENNIFER KIERANs ©2009 ALL RIGHTs REsERVED Executive Director of Toronto’s popular Female CAROLE DUCHARME is the 2011 Eye Film Festivall; celebrating its 10th anniversary KALLI CTV WIDC Director Development Award recipient in 2012. www.FemaleEyeFilmFestival.com PAAKSPUU for her feature comedy The Donor, developed with was selected as one of six the support of Telefilm, BC Film and the HGF. She MEGHNA HALDAR is currently finishing high potential creators by docSHIFT has also written the acclaimed feature script The her short triptych drama on violence Bol (Speak!). Institute for a specialized four-day mentorship Women of My Life, with the support of Telefilm, The film incorporates thousands of photographs, program, January/February 2011 to take her BC Film, HGF, Movie puppets and dance and has music by Jesse Zubot interactive project Moment of Contact to the next Central, NSI Features and throat singing by Tanya Tagaq. She is in level. Incubator sessions were led by mentors First and the WIDC. Both development on a feature film project with support Romeo Candido (MuchMusic Online), Anita Lee, are ready for production from Movie Central. (NFB), and Ana Serrano (CFC) and focused on financing. Carole is idea refinement, audience clarification, and also writing the French JINDER OUJLA CHALMERS’ business planning. 6-hour television series one-hour drama series, Combat Hospital is in Pourquoi Vancouver? for production and will go to air June 2011 on Global LESLEY ANN PATTEN is working with SRC in coproduction with and ABC Television Networks. Jinder is the co- Vertical Productions on a adaptation of the The Cirrus Communications creator, co-producer, writer, and executive story Book Of Secrets, a New in Montreal. Her latest editor on this series. A brain child that took Jinder Zealand-Canadian co– short filmAutumn won the to the Afghanistan war to get it off the ground. pro. She is also seeking VFS Impact Award in the Jinder is con-currently working on her next drama productions funds for a Difference Maker category; series The Volunteer with partners, Dennis Foon low budget film,Buried recognizing a film that will benefit society by and Monica Hilborn. In Water on which she is making a difference in the community. the Director - Writer; the www.vimeo.com/caroleducharme project is to be filmed in Nova Scotia, fall 2011.
10 WIDC | CELEBRATING 15 YEARS WIDC ALUMNAE UPDATES LAURENCE VERON creations, Erma Invents the Love Machine being has taken a NADINE VALCIN’s short filmIn Between/ position as the Francophone Program Coordinator adapted into a storybook, The Mystique of Lost Entre deux (NSI Drama Prize winner 2008/09) at On Screen Manitoba. is still making its way on the festival circuit with Ladies, an interactive series, and a feature script, recent stops if Germany, Ghana and the U.S. She A Good Enough Mother. recently completed the first draft of her feature 2008 children’s comedy Les Malheurs de Sophie SIBEL GUVENC, in 2010 was a director Lachance with funding from Telefilm Canada’s and producer at a Belgium-partnered Turkish ALLISON BEDA directed the pilot for a programme d’aide à l’écriture de scénarios and commercial production house then signed with new TV series, Sleeping With the Dead; a kind of Écrire au long. She is also developing Happily Ever DKFY and Film Colony as a director. She is “Ghostbusters” meets “The Office”. Her short, After (working title) a dramatic comedy currently working on a local Turkish story, working 30-LOVE, won Best Super Short Film at the Los about divorce. title Heroic Turkish Women, originally an oratorio composed by Tulug Tirpan with whom she has Angeles All Sports Film Festival and her shot in joined forces to create a motion picture. Sibel Paris, France, 2nd music video for recording artist 2007 is also partnering with an event management Adrienne Pierce, Arc de Triomphe was picked up company to introduce 3D projection mapping into by MTV in the USA for their online program MTV- IGGY; possible theatrical debut this summer! SMITA ACHARYYA’s short filmSorry the Turkish market. Girl was selected as the Juror’s Choice for Best Allison is writing Unpredictable a screenplay TARA HUNGERFORD continues to in Show at the Female Shorts: Film and Video based on the screwball romantic comedy and direct/write/produce on her own and with her Showcase (Torpedo Gallery, Virginia). Smita has the feature The Boys, based on the play husband and creative partner Eric Hogan under directed four episodes of the web series Rust by Kris Elgstrand in development, slated to their production company Two Story Productions and is scheduled star Fred Ewanuick, Gabrielle Rose and Brad Inc. She is freshly wrapped off of directing a to direct seven Dryborough.U.K., was in a curated program of more episodes, series of spots for the Vancouver MLS Whitecaps shorts in Texas Team (Bell Canada) and a provincial political summer 2011. and can be seen campaign with Shavick Entertainment. Her Smita continues on-line in Canada documentary A Window Looking In (Knowledge to collaborate with at the NSI on-line her twin sister and Network commission) won The Canadian Moving !A film festival producing partner, Pictures Distribution Award at the Vancouver WIF MUSEUM (nsi-canada. Rita Acharyya (www.twinsletown.ca/about), on Festival 2011 and has been nominated for 7 Leo Dances with films fest official selection ca/30_love.aspx) Awards. She is personally nominated for Best their feature filmShanti Claus, a Hindu Christmas Her shorts Fallen Director, Writer and Producer for the 2011 Leo Producers Allison Beda & ADRIENNE PIERCE are comedy as well as the half-hour comedy television Ecstatic to announce that MUSEUM THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO FROM ADRIENNE PIERCE’S UPCOMING and Tea Party series Assisted Development. Awards. Tara is a regular guest speaker at The ALBUM OH DEER and the music video directorial debut of allison beda, will have its world are playing at the Vancouver Film School and leads workshops on premiere theatrical screening at the dances with films festival in La, at sunset laemmle 5 Akbar Lounge directing music videos. She is represented by theatre 8000 sunset blvd, Hollywood 90046 KATRIN BOWEN won the 2011 Artistic Friday june 4 2010 at 2:45 Pm. in Los Angeles, The Characters Agency and a roster music Achievement Award from WIFT Vancouver for her TICKETS:h http://www.danceswithfilms.comttp://www.a-muse-productio/10_list_mv.htmlns.com/films_ music_videos.html Festival in Los Angeles. and Allison just video director for Insider Films. stunning direction in her first feature film:Amazon received a Legacy www.twostoryproductions.com, Falls. Amazon Falls won the best debut feature Award for “outstanding achievement in film” at the www.tarahungerford.com. at the 2011 Female Eye Film Festival. She is Women in Film Festival for her short film9-1-Mum self-distributing Amazon Falls across Canada to starring Marya Delver. Ms. Beda made her first KELLY-RUTH MERCIER big houses and learning a ton about distribution has been music video Museum (for recording artist Adrienne on a micro budget. Katrin directed the slam poetry busy in theatre, film, and at home. Piper Rose Pierce) this year, which was immediately picked film Shane with Shane Koyczan that played at the Acadia was born on February 23rd and has had up by MTV (it can be seen online on MTV-IGGY 2011 Doxa Festival. She is developing a slate of an eventful life already! K-R’s filmMove Out Clean, (mtviggy.com/content/25367) and which will have feature films. winner of the MPPIA/Whistler Film Festival Award, a theatrical world premiere in June at the Dances premiered in With Films International Film Festival in L.A. ALANA CYMERMAN is collaborating Whistler, December with stellar visual effects production house Motor 2010 and is making Allison is presently focusing on her narrative VFX on her latest short filmJulia Julep (starring its way to festivals. feature directorial debut and is on the look-out for Wajdi Mouwad protégé Emmanuel Schwartz), Kelly-Ruth directed interested and fabulous Producers! She is working which is the first in a fantastical triptych on the successful run with writer Kris Elgstrand to bring his darkly comic children and of Lobby Hero, fall play The Boys to the screen and has acquired the mythical 2010 and returns rights to adapt the screwball romantic comedy architecture. to ‘the boards’ twice more in 2011 with Bonjour novel, Unpredictable (by Eileen Cook). Meanwhile La Bonjour and Talk Radio. Scripts for How to she pushes Get a Date are moving forward as is the early forward with development of Old People Cooking -- a saucy her other series focusing on recipes passed down through families.
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Oliver Linsley will co-produce. She shot two MARIE CLEMENTS’’ musical short DOMINIQUE KELLER continues to episodes of a webisode series, Yukonic: Episode The Road Forward premiered to over sixteen work on the Baby Cliff series. The Interrogation 6: www.yukonic. festivals across the America’s and Europe, and (one episode of the series) was selected by CBC com/siren-song. was awarded Best Musical Video at the American to compete on the national program Short Film html; Episode Indian Film Festival and the Best Music Video at Face Off, June 2011. Be sure to watch the show 7: http://www. the Southeastern Native Indian Film Festival. As and to cheer her on! Dominique is also pleased yukonic.com/ writer/director she is currently in development to have received funding to continue the next few dawson-or-bust. with her feature filmsTombs and Now Look What episodes in the Baby Cliff series. html. Her short You Made Me Do, a new media documentary film,Her Man Number 14, a full length musical of The Road PAULA KELLY is an award-winning Plan played Forward and her short experimental filmJesus Canadian filmmaker, based in Winnipeg. In 2010, at the 2011 Indian premiered, spring 2011. she was awarded the first ever Manitoba Film Vancouver Hothouse Award from the Winnipeg Film Group, to Women In Film Festival in March and is now KATHERINE FITZGERALD support creative development on several dramatic making the circuit. attended the 2010 Independent Television projects. She’s now in post-production on a Producers program in Toronto. Her short film dramatic short, The Crest, about the last farm PEGGY THOMPSON is working with Bread & Kisses is touring international film family in Manitoba facing the great flood of 2040, Producer Andrew Koster on the feature film festivals including the Hamptons, and WorldFest and planning for production on the road movie screenplay Solly and Ray and Wendell and Nate, Houston where it was awarded a Grand Remi feature, Euphoria. She is also set to premiere Art supported by Corus Made With Pay and BC for Best Student Film. Bread & Kisses was also and Stone, a documentary about the Winnipeg Film. She is also working with producer Sharon selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner where Art Gallery, one of Canada’s most iconic works McGowan on several feature projects. it was screened as part of Coup de Coeur - Crazy of modernist architecture. Other recent projects Canucks, programmed by Danny Lennon of include a trio of short films calledSouvenirs , the NFB. Her other short filmsOutward Gate, MICHELLE WONG continues to work as commissioned as a public art project for the City Murdoch’s Other Eye, and The New Voice of the Business Affairs Manager at Corkscrew Media of Winnipeg and nominated for Best Documentary Vermouth are at festivals and being broadcast in Calgary. Her WIDC experience continues to Short at the Yorkton Short Film Festival. Paula is a domestically. In June, Katherine will be in inform her choices as she works as a consultant recipient of both the WIDC BANFF and the Edinburgh for the Engage conference, developing to former participants who want to access her CTV BANFF Fellowships and is also an alumna her feature film script Scalpel. She will complete business admin background. This year Michelle of the CFC. her animated filmSt. Patrick & the Snakes, 2012. produced a two-episode series, The Alberta Comedy Spectacular: Best of the West featuring KAREN LAM wrote and directed her western-based comics and The Alberta Comedy second short horror film,Doll Parts which Spectacular: Turtle Island Too featuring Aboriginal premieres at the Viscera Film Festival in Los comics for the CBC. Both nominated for 2 AMPIA Angeles, summer 2011. The short film was one awards including Best Variety Special with Turtle of ten chosen to showcase at an event screening, Island Too also garnering a nomination for Best and will tour genre festivals and universities Production Reflecting Cultural Diversity. across the United States. Her feature filmStained has its official US and Canadian release, fall 2011 2009 (October/November), following sales to the Middle East. She is currently working on financing two KAREN HINES’ has been directing horror horror feature films, and a transmedia action/ MARY BISSELL is the series director for clown duo Mump & Smoot in Cracked at theatres horror project. the true crime series The Devil You Know which across Canada for the past year, and is currently airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre SHARON LEWIS is series director for and Investigation Discovery in the US. She is Projects, where her new black comedy Drama will a primetime lifestyle series about overprotective also developing the feature screenplay Black premiere next season. Karen also continues to Moms...and loving it. She is in post production Stockings, based on Neal Hall’s book “The Life story-edit projects through Telefilm, and is writing with her short filmMasks , a thoughtful moment and Deaths of Cindy James” for her dramatic her own feature film based on her mini-memoir, about suicide. She continues to develop her debut; and have developed the doc series My Little House of Horrors, a finalist in the 2010 transmedia sci-fi project,The Burn. concept To Hell and Back, which is in development National Magazine Awards. She will direct the with Make Believe Media. She is co-writer on the third in her award-winning series of Pochsy shorts, Telefilm-funded script,Really Into Her. summer 2011. 2009 CAM
LULU KEATING received development NAOMI JAYE shot a Bravo!FACT for PAULINA ABARCA-CANTIN financing from Telefilm, Yukon Film and Sound Amanda Martinez called Gitana, May 2010. She is serving her final term as President of FCTNM/ Commission, and CBC North for her WIDC Feature has optioned a book longlisted for the Giller, The WIFT-Montreal and has just completed three years Film Award-winning film,Based on a True Fantasy. Incident Report by Toronto author Martha Baillie, as Director General of Montreal-based Studio XX, and is developing a musical, Waxing Poetic with a women’s media art centre for technological co-writer Pete Smith. exploration, creation and critique. Over 2009-
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2011, Paulina co-produced First Person Digital and directed the music video Light It Up! for January 2011 she worked on two short films; with the National Film Board of Canada which Canadian country music recording artist Aaron Masks directed by WIDC 2009 alumna Sharon premiered at HTMlles 2010: Festival of Media Art Pritchett; which reached the Nashville Top 5 Lewis, and Bunny co-starring with David Fox and + Digital Culture. music video chart. Hardee T. Lineham. In March she taped a pilot for CBC Radio, Diplomats Wife, followed by a LOIS BROWN will be Artist in Residence turn on Flashpoint that airs, fall 2011. She is in and Associate to Emma Tibaldo (Artistic Director) 2010 development with an animation feature/TV series at the Playwright’s Workshop Montreal, and comedy/drama feature One Less Cow to Milk and most notably along with husband actor Steven September 2011. ASNA ADHAMI is now producing the Pacini she is in development on a BABY on the South Asian News for OMNI Alberta. March 2011, way! CAROLYN COMBS received Canada she stage-managed WIDC 2006 alumna Rita Council funding to develop her latest feature film, Shelton Deverell’s play Smoked Glass Ceiling and and her short filmSmall Currents supported by performed her poetry for International Women’s GERALDINE CARR is currently the CTV WIDC DD Award, won a Legacy Award Day at the same show. She also exhibited photos developing Maud Mary – a short film about her at the 2011 Vancouver WIF Festival and is at the Mount Saint Vincent Community Show and great-grandmother who missed the boat. The boat touring festivals. the Saint Mary’s University FASS show. Her work- she missed was the in-progress short poetry film Excuse me, may I Titanic. Due to go DANISHKA ESTERHAZY`s debut touch your skin? I’ve never been this close to a to camera, summer feature filmBlack Field recently won the Best coloured person before! screened at AFCOOP’s 2011, Geraldine Feature Drama award and Best Performance Bring Your Own Film event. She presented body aims to have the award at the Vancouver Women In Film Festival. image research and hosted a session on poetry film completed Black Field was also broadcast nationally on at Mount Saint Vincent University’s Body Image in time to screen Super Channel and will be released on DVD, June Conference. She was a mentor in POETS 4 during the Titanic’s 2011. Most recently, Danishka directed a sitcom CHANGE a youth ARTS/Poetry project that also centennial in 2012. television pilot, Where the Funny Comes From, raised money for Pakistan flood relief, www.( and a student feature film,The Trials of Rasputin. poetrymap.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=61) and MICHELLE LATIMER’s animated Summer 2011, Danishka will direct a new short showed her first ever solo show of photographs short filmChoke premiered at the 2011 film entitledFortunes . in “Reflections on Love” a show of photography Sundance Festival and received a Special Jury and poetry exhibited at the Seaforth Community Honourable Mention for Best International Short DEANNE FOLEY`s feature film directorial Hall in Nova Scotia. The show was featured on the Film before going on to have a European premiere debut, Beat Down goes into production, June CBC Radio/RCI’s Masala Canada (www.rcinet.ca/ in Rotterdam. Michelle is currently co-producing 2011 in St. John’s, NL. Beat Down is an irreverent english/program/masala-canada/home/date/21- and directing a documentary mini-series with White comedy about 08-2010/), and (www.rcinet.ca/masala). She Pine Pictures based upon John Ralston Saul’s book wrestling, family, worked on the Spirit of South Asia for Vision TV A Fair Country. She is also in pre-production on the and following your and attended the PEI Screenwriter Bootcamp. feature documentary Alias (The Independent Film dreams no matter Channel) and is developing her dramatic feature how painful that can ELIZABETH BECKER is in in collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker, sometimes be. Cast development with her feature film,Simple . Peter Mettler. includes Rob Wells She attended the 2011 Merging Media Lab, (Trailer Park Boys), focusing on transmedia storytelling. ANNETTE MANGAARD travelled to Marthe Bernard Australia, April/May 2011, to screen her new film (Republic of Doyle), CATHERINE BRUHIER received Kinngait: Riding Light into the World. She also Tony Nappo (SAW an OAC grant to direct her next short filmClean did some filming and participated in an artists’ II), Janet Kidder (Ginger Snaps: Unleashed), Dan Teeth Wednesdays (a group of 1st grade students exhibition at Sydney’s Beirne (The Trotsky), Andy Jones (Rare Birds) and stage a secret revolt against the monthly hated Olympic Park Armory Mark O’Brien (Grown Up Movie Star). Produced fluoride treatments from the 1980’s) based on a Gallery. She is by Pope Productions, funded by Telefilm Canada, favourite short story continuing to develop NLFDC, Harold Greenburg Fund and TMN. her sister Emily her theatrical feature wrote at age 16. screenplay Alberta TRACY D SMITH’s short filmHomestead She starred as Cat Beauty which is screened at the 2011 Vancouver Women In Film Woman (pictured at slated for completion Festival. She is in development on her next feature Mann’s Chinese red in 2012. film.www.tracydsmith.com carpet Premiere) in Footprints; opened CAROLYNE STOSSEL sold the at the Sunset 5 world distribution rights to her first feature film LA & the Quad in Underdogs: Born to Lose to LA-based distributors NY in April 2011. World Film Magic. October 2010, she produced
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E. JANE THOMPSON completed a enthusiastic response from audiences and looked filmHow Eunice Got Her Baby. She is the recipient gorgeous on the big screen. The film sold to Air of the WIDC Feature Film Award for her feature draft of Everything I Know About You (developed Canada (showing now) and will soon be seen film directorial debut during WIDC 2010 as Mathilde) and the project is now poised for packaging. Jane received funding on TMN/Movie Central. Sitting on the Edge of In October 2010, the , produced with from Telefilm in late 2010 for the final draft ofThe Marlene film won best feature Amber Ripley and Rob Berliner Complex, a psychological thriller written by Katherine Collins. Katherine has delivered a at the Carmel Arts and Merilees of Foundation fabulous draft and that project, too, now moves Film festival (where Clint Features. The project into the packaging phase. Meanwhile, Jane’s Eastwood presented was also accepted into Penelope with the award), is the WIFT- Toronto recent Bravo!FACT short, The Exit, is touring the festival circuit. It premiered at the Halifax Film and the Golden Palm from Development Incubator. Festival in 2010, screened at the 2011 Victoria the Mexico International Film Festival, and continues its run at WSFF Film Festival, May 2011. 2011 WIDC 2011. It has won a Gold Remi for Short Subject Foreign sales still available. Her new project, Pride – Romantic Comedy at WorldFest Houston. Jane No More, written and produced by Lisa Purves, is continues to deliver director training and to aiming for production, January 2012. EVA COLMERS’’ latest short film mentor filmmakers in her role as creative advisor The Weightless Traveller is nominated for a Golden to NSI’s Drama Prize program. SHELAGH CARTER completed her Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film Festival debut feature film,Passionflower with producer and continues to travel the festival circuit around ADA VAUGHAN travelled to Berlin, Polly Washburn, associate producer Joy Loewen, the globe: Int. Buddhist Film Festival in Colombo Beijing, India, Hong Kong and Cannes to meet and is submitting to festivals. Her experimental Sri Lanka in May, the Shanghai Film Festival and directly with investors and producers to finance short film,Canoe won a Grand Remi at WorldFest the Park City Film Festival in June. Eva is now in Houston for Best Experimental Film 2011. development for her new shortfilm for her first feature filmsSuki (developed at WIDC) Granny Baby which is a bitter-sweet story presented in an and Crystals, outside of Canada. She is totally in awe of the vibe exuded from those cities, CANDICE DAY is currently working as animated live-action style reminiscent of the of the their local people, participants and staff in these the Director of Business Development at March early Expressionist cinema. Eva is also thrilled that well established festivals and continues to build Entertainment in Toronto. Calgary’s CSIF film coop has commissioned her to bridges towards her goals. create a 16mm short film for the 20th anniversary AMANDA FAHEY is the script of their annual film festival which will happen, coordinator for season three of CBC’s hit series, spring 2010 CAM Being Erica. 2012. Still fueled by her recent WIDC MARTINE BLUE is happy to be enjoying MARY M. FRYMIRE received a Leo experience, a very productive period. Her multi-award-winning Best Director nomination for Family Matters; Eva is film,Urban Twirl, Surviving The Bipolar Journey. The documentary reserving is in the midst of has also been awarded best documentary, Best some time, its festival run, as Editing, Best Music and Best Sound Editing. Mary this fall to continue working on her first feature- is her short ghost is now touring festivals with the film. She is slated length script. film, heT Last to direct In The Weeds, a romantic comedy with Cottage Hospital. Opine Entertainment in Los Angeles, summer SIOBHAN DEVINES most recent She is prepping 2011. She is in development for her original ’ short film, , has been programmed at to shoot a short screenplay Epiphany, which she will direct, spring Immature festivals in Vancouver, Montreal and Milan. She is psychological 2012. Mary has just completed directing and currently prepping two new shorts: by Roslyn thriller titled writing 2 episodes for Trashopolis for History OMG Muir will be in production, July 2011; and, Good Desperate Channel in Mexico City, Berlin, and Germany. Dog by Geoff Inverarity is planned for October Scribbles in May 2011 and is co-producing She has been awarded an Artist’s Work Visa 2011. her last short, Fisherman’s Paint, to shoot, fall for 3 years in the US and will be directing 2011. Martine is a participant in the Atlantic projects between Vancouver, New York City Film Festival’s Inspired Scripts program, with her and Los Angeles. JULES KOOSTACHIN, through her feature script Hunting Pignut. She continues as a company, VisJuelles Productions, shot the five- video journalist at CBC News, St John’s. ANITA REILLY MCGEE is the new minute pilot for her APTN /CMF funded series, Executive Director for the St. John’s International Askiboyz, about two urban Cree teenagers setting out into rural communities seeking traditional PENELOPE BUITENHUIS’’ feature Women’s Film Festival while Kelly Davis is on knowledge. Her Ontario Arts Council-funded A Wake was released theatrically at AMC in maternity leave. multi-media installation piece, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto in February 2011 Alive with Breath uses video, audio and photography to tell the and at the FIfth Ave Cinemas in Vancouver, April ANA VALINE of Rodeo Queen Pictures story of five survivors speaking to their life before 2011. A Wake garnered great press and an Inc., won 1st Place Legacy Award at the their Canadian Residential School experience and Vancouver Women In Film Festival with her short opens to the public, June 2011, at Beit Zatoun in
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Toronto. The first draft of her OAC-funded novel Iran, and with the NFB on an animated musical “Soul Kept”, mentored by Lee Maracle is slated 2011 CAM about real estate in Vancouver, called Big Trees. for completion, June 2011. She is also developing She presents at a conference on the animated her feature film screenplayBroken Angel with documentary in Edinburgh, June 2011. Mo-D Productions. FRANCE BENOIT’s latest short Hand to Toe, an exploration in the art of giving, which ANA DE LARA’’s film,Near Silence won premiered at the 2011 Vancouver Women In Film EVA MADDEN HAGEN’s short film, the Best Short Film Award at the 2011 Vancouver Festival, also screened at Hot Docs. France is the What Remains, produced through the CBC Film Women In Film Festival. She is currently writing first filmmaker from the Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia Bridge Award, has had multiple her feature script, have this honour. Following this intimate portrait of screenings including an American premiere at Kulam, with story volunteers who wash the feet of homeless people the Los Angeles Women’s International Film editor Michael living on the streets of Yellowknife, France is now Festival, the Island Media Arts Festival, PEI and Giampa and in development with the NFB for a second short the Nickel Independent Film Festival, St. John’s, developing her to continue this exploration in the art of giving. Newfoundland. Her short film,Fast Forward in short film,Good That short film,The Last to Touch will follow Reverse was selected to screen at the Animation Girls Don’t. Yellowknife’s first funeral director as she lovingly with Love, Home Sweet Home screening, put on washes the body of a deceased person. by the Centre for Arts Tapes in Halifax, BRIANNE NORD-STEWART Nova Scotia. attended the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Short MAURI BERNSTEIN, with her partners Film Corner representing her film,The Provider at BYOA Entertainment, is in the funding stage GAIL MAURICE is completing the edit on which was also shot by WIDC alumna Amy Belling. with her webseries and interactive multi-media her short drama, January 2011, Brianne finished editing her first extravaganza, Beverage Barn. She has just Kihtwam misawac feature film,Complexity , by Adam Bogoch. completed the online book trailer for Brigitta na-wapamitin, shot Currently seeking funding for her adapted short of the White Forest, and is in development with entirely in Cree/ film,Uranium , based on the short story The two short films and a multi-convergent television Michif in Northern Uranium Leaking from Port Radium and Rayrock comedy. Mauri is also now promoting her skill as Saskatchewan. Mines is Killing Us, Brianne will direct a segment of “Web Whisperer” to television comedy producers A story about a a Vancouver-based onmibus feature film, fall 2011. seeking compelling and entertaining digital content granddaughter who goes to say her final farewell for television convergence. to her dying grandmother, the title means “Until WENDY ORD is the recipient of the 2011 I see you again” because there is no word for WIDC BANFF Fellowship. Her short drama, TORA! VALERIE BUHAGIAR won the Best “goodbye” in Cree/Michif. won a Distribution Award at the 2011 Vancouver Experimental Drama award for her filmSmall, Women In Film Festival and continues to garner Stupid and Insignificant at the 2011 Female ARLIN MCFARLANE received a recognition at festivals around the world. She has Eye Film Filmmakers Grant from the Yukon Film and Sound several projects that she will pitch at BANFF. Festival. She is Commission to direct a short based on the story developing two Walks Like by well known Whitehorse/Vancouver NELOFER PAZIRA is touring with her feature films writer and storyteller Ivan E. Coyote. Shooting is acclaimed dramatic feature film, Act of Dishonor, and has been scheduled for November 2011. and is writing and developing her next film project. invited to direct a Canadian JANE SOWERBY completed her fifth Film Centre ANNA SIKORSKI is developing a new feature screenplay-a female driven paranormal feature. She has short film,Walking Eddie for production, summer thriller written for television and is now shopping launched a website http://valeriebuhagiar.com. 2011. She has completed the treatment for her it. She is completing She is directing Don’t Look Dow, her upcoming first feature film,Vandeuse Niaisuese. She is also production on a third debut as a theatre director (Berkeley St. Theatre, launching a music video produced for Calgary’s ‘teaser’ webisode of her May 26 - June 4). Anne Loree and is in the pre-production stages of half-hour comedy series, a new video inspired by art house horror movies, The World According to for the rising Montreal talent The Damn Truth. ANN MARIE FLEMING’s short film, Eugeena Yart. Webisode Gluttony, starring her long-time animated avatar 1: Splat!; in the midst of “stickgirl”, screened at Cannes with Telefilm’s DANA WARREN graduated the life a mid-life crisis Eugeena Short Film Initiative. She just received Harold coaching program, March 2011 and is advancing is convinced she’s found Greenburg Fund scriptwriting assistance for her practice bringing 23 years of experience in the the ‘secret to eternal Shanghai Follies, a fictional riff inspired by her film industry and more specifically the freelance youth’. Webisode 2: research on her award-winning documentary world, to her clients and peers in the industry. Eugeena recounts ‘the The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Ann Marie She continues to develop her feature film projects. ups and downs’ of being in showbiz. Eugeena Yart is in development with Telefilm on her feature- can be viewed at www.janesowerby.com. Jane’s length animation, Ming Rose: Slammer, a film drama/comedy feature script Myrtle was optioned about family and poetry, where stickgirl goes to and is seeking financing.
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