Christine Welsh

Christine Welsh is a Métis Canadian filmmaker, feminist and associate professor at the University of Victoria. ^[1]

Life

Welsh was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. She graduated from University of Regina, with a B.A. in 1986. She has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. Welsh's 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary Finding Dawn, about murdered and missing Canadian Aboriginal women, won a Gold Audience Award at the 2006 Amnesty International Film Festival. ^[2] Other film credits include: Women in the Shadows (directed by Norma Bailey,1992), Keepers of the Fire (1994), Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (with Peter C. Campbell, 1997), and The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (2000).^[3]

Welsh teaches courses in indigenous women’s studies and indigenous cinema.^[4] She is a resident of Saltspring Island.^[5][6]

Filmography

• Finding Dawn, (2006) Ericksen, Svend-Erik (Producer). [Documentary]. Canada. The National Film Board of Canada.
• The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters, (2000) Darling Kovanik, G. & Welsh, C. (Producers). [Documentary]. Canada. Prairie Girl Films and the National Film Board of Canada.
• Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle, (1997) Campbell, Peter C & Welsh, C (Producers). Campbell, Peter C & Welsh, C (Directors). [Documentary]. Canada. Gumboot Productions.
• Keepers of the Fire, (1994) Herring, I., Johansson, S., Macdonald, J. & Welsh, C. (Producers). [Documentary]. Canada. Omni Film Productions and the National Film Board of Canada.
• Women in the Shadows, (1991) Johansson, S. & Welsh, C. (Producers). Bailey, N. (Director). [Documentary]. Canada. Direction Films and the National Film Board of Canada.

References

1. "Christine Welsh". University of Victoria. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
2. "Christine Welsh". Women Make Movies. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
3. "Christine Welsh". Cinema Politica. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
4. "Acclaimed Feminist Filmmaker To Screen “Finding Dawn”". Center for the Study of Women in Society. University of Oregon. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
5. O'CONNOR, JENNIFER (Winter 2009). "FINDING DAWN". Herizons (Bnet).
6. "Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh can be proud of her showing at the Amnesty International Film Festival". Georgia Straight. November 9, 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2009.