MARIE CLEMENTS WINS $120,000 PRIZE:
2012 WIDC Feature Film Award Announced

Vancouver, Canada (March 2012) – Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is thrilled to announce that award-winning filmmaker MARIE CLEMENT is the winner of the 2012 WIDC Feature Film Award, a $120,000 in kind prize designed to encourage more feature films directed by women in British Columbia and supported by some of Canada’s most influential screen-industry companies.

Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA) is a national non-profit organization whose main activity, The Women In the Director’s Chair Workshop (WIDC) is a one-of-a-kind annual professional development program specially designed to advance the leadership and creative capacities of mid-career women screen directors of fiction, presented in partnership with The Banff Centre, and ACTRA, with major support from Telefilm Canada, William F White Intl, Panavision Canada, CTV, Quebecor Fund, IATSE 669, IATSE 891, Directors Guild of Canada, BC, Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, Independent Production Fund and the participation of many others. www.creativewomenworkshops.com