Best known as co-creator and producer of Canada's internationally respected Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) program, Carol Whiteman is a two-time Governor General's award nominee and multiple award-winner for promoting gender equality in Canada's screen industry. Since 1997, Whiteman has worked tirelessly to advance the careers, fiction feature films, network television and web series of a generation of female screen writers and directors. Through WIDC, she has produced over 150 short films and is executive producer on twelve award-winning feature films including
Red Snow (2019), Dir.
Marie Clements,
Rustic Oracle (2019), Dir.
Sonia Bonspille Boileau,
Queen of the Morning Calm (2019), Dir.
Gloria Kim,
Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor (2021), Dir.
Shelley Thompson,
With Love and a Major Organ (2023), Dir.
Kim Albright, including the upcoming
Celestine, Dir.
Susanne Serres and
Monica's News, Dir.
Pamela Gallant .
Carol began her career as an actor and is known for her roles in theatre productions (1987 to 2001) in Vancouver, Canada, the ff,
Intersection (1994), and her Laura Petrie-inspired role of Sally in the video game,
Wirehead (1995).