Carol Whiteman

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 across Canada and internationally. Through WIDC, she has produced over 150 short films and is executive producer on nine 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 and the upcoming Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor, Dir. Shelley Thompson. 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).