The WIFV Women of Vision Awards celebrate women's creative and technical achievements in media. WIFV Executive Members nominate women for these awards. We are delighted and honored to recognize these trail blazers!
The WIFV Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2012 Women of Vision Award recipients:
Shirin Ghareeb, Director, Arabian Sights Film Festival/Deputy Director, Filmfest DC;
Agnieszka Holland, Oscar-nominated Director
Margaret Parsons, Curator, Department of Film Programs, National Gallery of Art; and
Christine Weber, Vice President of Production for Specials at Discovery Channel.
Short biographies are available here.
Watch WIFV President Mary May and 2006 Woman of Vision Beth Mendelson talk about the awards
The 2012 supporters include: DC Film Office, Discovery Communications, Henninger Media Services, Hilllmann & Carr, Interface Media Group, JWM Productions, Media Central, James & Theodore Pedas Family Foundation, Photo Assist, VideoTakes, Inc., Virginia Film Office, Wind & Stars Production Group, Womin Media.
Women of Vision Award Recipients
Women of Vision Awards
2012
Shirin Ghareeb
Agnieszka Holland
Margaret Parsons
Christine Weber
Emcee: Gwen Tolbart
2011
Maryanne Culpepper
Cecilia Domeyko
Mickey Green
Laura Possessky
Emcee: Cynne Simpson
2010
Patricia Aufderheide
Grace Guggenheim
Connie Day-McClinton
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan
2009
Constance Chatfield-Taylor
Sharon Sloane
Sheila Smith
2008
Patty Duke
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Susan Lacy
Linda Maslow
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan
Quicktime video of the 2008 Women of Vision evening is here.
2007
Susie Coelho
Patricia Finneran
Barbara Kopple
Deborah Redmond
Andrea Sims
Emcee: Andrea Pennington, MD
2006
Diana Ingraham
Beth Mendelson
Laureen Ong
Nina Gilden Seavey
Daphne Maxwell Reid
Emcee: Eun Yang
2005
Stephanie Antosca
Jennifer Cortner
Carrie Fisher
Carol Flaisher
Brooke Bailey Johnson
Emcee: Lark McCarthy
2004
Lynda Carter
Phylis Geller
Jennifer Lawson
Penny Lee
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter
Emcee: Doris McMillon
2003
Ruby Dee
Amy DeLouise
Ricki Green
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Carole Simpson
Emcee: Pat Lawson Muse
2002
Debra L. Lee
Rosemary Reed
Catherine Wyler
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan
2001
Jean Picker-Firstenberg
Aviva Kempner
Sharon Stone
Aida Takla-O’Reilly
Emcee: Carole Simpson
2000
Tipper Gore
Gwen Ifill
Wendie Malick
Judith McHale
Roseanne
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz
Emcee: Renee Poussaint
1999
Sheila Brooks
Tyne Daly
J.C. Hayward
Tippi Hedren
Linda Ross
Emcee: Maureen Bunyan
1998
Sandy Cannon-Brown
Linda Ellerbee
Robin Smith
Susan Smith
Mary Steenburgen
Emcee: Rosemary Reed
1997
Ruth Pollak
Renee Poussaint
Cicely Tyson
Marilyn Weiner
Nancy Woodhull
Emcee: Judy Carter
1996
Maureen Bunyan
Michal Carr
Lee Grant
Sherry Jones
Emcee: Carole Simpson
1995
Kathy Bates
Elizabeth Campbell
Judith Dwan Hallet
Ruth Roland
Lesley Stahl
Emcee: Andrea Roane
1994
Ginny Durrin
Elise Reeder
Nina Rosenblum
Emcee: Susan King
