Christine Welsh
Christine Welsh is a Métis Canadian filmmaker, feminist and retired associate professor at the University of Victoria.[1]
Early life
[edit]Welsh was born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the great-grand-daughter of Norbert Welsh, the famous Metis buffalo hunter.[2]
Education
[edit]Welsh graduated from University of Regina, with a B.A. in 1986.
Career
[edit]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.[3] 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Christine Welsh". University of Victoria. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ Barkwell, Lawrence. http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14214.Christine%20Welsh%20final.pdf
- ^ a b "Christine Welsh". Moving Images Distribution. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "Christine Welsh". Women Make Movies. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ "Christine Welsh". Cinema Politica. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "Acclaimed Feminist Filmmaker To Screen "Finding Dawn"". Center for the Study of Women in Society. University of Oregon. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
- ^ "Gender Studies Awards". University of Victoria. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
- ^ O'CONNOR, JENNIFER (Winter 2009). "FINDING DAWN". Herizons. Bnet.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Finding Dawn". Cinema Politica. Montreal, Quebec. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ Sandra Ignagni. "2017 VIWIFF Matrix Awards". Women in Film and Television Vancouve. Vancouver, BC. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "Film". Toronto African Film and Music Festivals. Toronto, Ontario. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
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