Christine Welsh Explained

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

Early life

Welsh was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the great-grand-daughter of Norbert Welsh, the famous Metis buffalo hunter.^[2]

Education

Welsh graduated from University of Regina, with a B.A. in 1986.

Career

Welsh has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years.

In 1977, Welsh's career began as an assistant editor on Allen Kings Who Has Seen the Wind film. Welsh moved to Vancouver Island after working as a film editor in Toronto for ten years.^[3] 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.^[4] 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).^[5]

Welsh worked as an associate professor at the University of Victoria where she taught courses in indigenous women's studies and indigenous cinema, retiring in 2017.^[6] Welsh was the first indigenous faculty member in Humanities at the University. In 2016, the University of Victoria made a scholarship in honor of Welsh, Scholarship for Indigenous Gender Studies Students^[7] . She is a resident of Saltspring Island.^{[8] [9]}

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.

Awards

• 2006, Winner, Amnesty International Film Festival, Gold Audience Award.^[10]
• 2017, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Matrix Award in achievement in BC shorts for the film The Thinking Garden.^[11]
• 2009, Women in Film and Television Vancouver, Artistic Achievement Award for filmmaking excellence in telling women’s stories.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christine Welsh. University of Victoria. 16 March 2013.
2. Barkwell, Lawrence. http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14214.Christine%20Welsh%20final.pdf
3. Web site: Christine Welsh. Moving Images Distribution. March 8, 2019.
4. Web site: Christine Welsh. Women Make Movies. 16 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20121016021032/http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm700.shtml. 16 October 2012. dead.
5. Web site: Christine Welsh. Cinema Politica. 4 May 2016.
6. Web site: Acclaimed Feminist Filmmaker To Screen "Finding Dawn" . University of Oregon . . 26 November 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090508140428/http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=1097 . 8 May 2009 .
7. Web site: Gender Studies Awards. University of Victoria. March 9, 2019.
8. O'CONNOR. JENNIFER. Winter 2009. FINDING DAWN. Herizons. Bnet.
9. News: Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh can be proud of her showing at the Amnesty International Film Festival. November 9, 2006. Georgia Straight. 26 November 2009.
10. Web site: Finding Dawn . Cinema Politica . March 8, 2019 . Montreal, Quebec.
11. Web site: Sandra Ignagni . 2017 VIWIFF Matrix Awards . Women in Film and Television Vancouve . March 8, 2019 . Vancouver, BC.
12. Web site: Film . Toronto African Film and Music Festivals . March 9, 2019 . Toronto, Ontario.