# Christine Welsh

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**Christine Welsh** is a [Métis](/source/M%C3%A9tis_people_(Canada)) Canadian filmmaker, feminist and retired associate professor at the [University of Victoria](/source/University_of_Victoria).[1]

## Early life

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

## Education

Welsh graduated from [University of Regina](/source/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.[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](/source/National_Film_Board_of_Canada) documentary *[Finding Dawn](/source/Finding_Dawn)*, about murdered and missing [Canadian Aboriginal](/source/Aboriginal_peoples_in_Canada) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Saltspring_Island).[8][9]

## Filmography

- *[Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis](https://watch.movingimages.ca/packages/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis/videos/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis)*, (2023) Christine Welsh (Producer), Gregory Coyes (Producer, Director), Madeline Ell (Director), Jeannine Carrière (Executive Producer). Produced in association with the University of Victoria. Produced with assistance from the [Government of Canada](/source/Government_of_Canada) and [Department of Canadian Heritage](/source/Department_of_Canadian_Heritage)[10]
- *The Thinking Garden*, (2017) Christine Welsh (Director, Co-Writer, Co-Producer), Elizabeth Vibert (Researcher, Co-Writer, Co-Producer), Moira Simpson (Cinematographer and editor), Basani Ngobenim(Assistant Director). [Documentary]. Canada, South Africa. [11]
- *[Finding Dawn](/source/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.[12]
- 2017, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Matrix Award in achievement in BC shorts for the film *The Thinking Garden*.[13]
- 2009, Women in Film and Television Vancouver, Artistic Achievement Award for filmmaking excellence in telling women’s stories.[14]

## References

1. ["Christine Welsh"](https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/women/people/faculty/cwelsh/index.php). University of Victoria. Retrieved 16 March 2013.

1. Barkwell, Lawrence. [http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14214.Christine%20Welsh%20final.pdf](http://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14214.Christine%20Welsh%20final.pdf)

1. ["Christine Welsh"](https://movingimages.ca/store/filmmakers.php?fmk=299). *Moving Images Distribution*. Retrieved March 8, 2019.

1. ["Christine Welsh"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121016021032/http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm700.shtml). Women Make Movies. Archived from [the original](http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm700.shtml) on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2013.

1. ["Christine Welsh"](https://www.cinemapolitica.org/artists/christine-welsh). *Cinema Politica*. Retrieved 4 May 2016.

1. ["Acclaimed Feminist Filmmaker To Screen "Finding Dawn""](https://web.archive.org/web/20090508140428/http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=1097). *[Center for the Study of Women in Society](/source/Center_for_the_Study_of_Women_in_Society)*. University of Oregon. Archived from [the original](http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=1097) on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

1. ["Gender Studies Awards"](https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/gender/future/bursaries-scholarships/list-of-awards/index.php). *University of Victoria*. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

1. O'CONNOR, JENNIFER (Winter 2009). ["FINDING DAWN"](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7554/is_200901/ai_n32313401/?tag=content;col1). *Herizons*. Bnet.[dead link]

1. ["Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh can be proud of her showing at the Amnesty International Film Festival"](https://www.straight.com/article/metis-filmmaker-christine-welsh-can-be-proud-of-her-showing-at-the-amnesty-international-film-festival). *Georgia Straight*. November 9, 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2009.

1. [https://watch.movingimages.ca/packages/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis/videos/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis](https://watch.movingimages.ca/packages/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis/videos/lii-michif-niiyanaan-we-are-metis)

1. [http://www.womensfarm.org/the-film/](http://www.womensfarm.org/the-film/)

1. ["Finding Dawn"](https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/finding-dawn). *Cinema Politica*. Retrieved March 8, 2019.

1. Sandra Ignagni. ["2017 VIWIFF Matrix Awards"](https://www.womeninfilm.ca/2017_Matrix_Awards.html). *Women in Film and Television Vancouver*. Retrieved March 8, 2019.

1. ["Film"](http://torontoafricanfilmmusicfest.com/film.html). *Toronto African Film and Music Festivals*. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

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