{"id":135477,"date":"2017-12-01T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135477"},"modified":"2017-12-01T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:57:09","slug":"sonia-bonspille-boileau-wins-widc-feature-film-award-for-women-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/01\/sonia-bonspille-boileau-wins-widc-feature-film-award-for-women-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Bonspille Boileau wins WIDC Feature Film Award for women directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135484\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135484\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Sonia B. Boileau\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/14731314_10154362634865783_8673498500034797884_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonspille Boileau received the 2017 national WIDC Feature Film Award\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10154362634865783&amp;set=ecnf.591975782&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sonia.boileau\">onia B. Boileau\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Bilingual Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau has won a lucrative award from the Women In the Director&#8217;s Chair program.<\/p>\n<p>Bonspille Boileau received the 2017 national WIDC Feature Film Award at an industry reception hosted by the Whistler Film Festival on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The award, valued at nearly $200,000, comes with cash as well as equipment and service to help toward the making of a film.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s designed to encourage more feature films directed by women.<\/p>\n<p>The WIDC says Bonspille Boileau plans to use the award to complete her sophomore feature film, \u201cRustic Oracle,\u201d a drama about an eight-year old Mohawk girl searching with her mom for her missing teenaged sister.<\/p>\n<p>Bonspille Boileau&#8217;s first feature was \u201cLe Dep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Bilingual Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau has won a lucrative award from the Women In the Director&#8217;s Chair &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[36564,36567,36565,36566],"class_list":["post-135477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bilingual-mohawk","tag-le-dep","tag-sonia-bonspille-boileau","tag-whistler-film-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}