Marie Clements is the 2012 winner of the Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC) award, a $120,000 in-kind prize.

The award, administered by the Creative Women Workshops Association, will support Clements in completing her directorial debut for feature film Stonefaces.

Stonefaces, according to the CWWA, will the first feature filmed in a Coast Salish language and one of three feature films directed by an Aboriginal female director in North America.

Set in Vancouver and the Te-Zho-Zhem First Nation in B.C., Stonefaces is the story of three Aboriginal siblings learning about their lineage as healers.

The prize includes in-kind rentals for one week at Vancouver’s North Shore Studios, The Bridge Studios or Vancouver Film Studios; production equipment rentals from William F. White International and Panavision Canada, and post-pro support from Deluxe Vancouver and Post Modern Sound.

Clements also wrote feature film Unnatural and Accidental.

The WIDC film prize is designed to support and boost feature films directed by Canadian women.

Previous WIDC winners include Katrin Bowen, Lulu Keating and Ana Valine.