Christine Welsh facts for kids
Christine Welsh is a talented Métis filmmaker and a former professor. She has made many important films and taught at the University of Victoria.
Early Life
Christine Welsh grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the great-granddaughter of Norbert Welsh, who was a famous Métis buffalo hunter.
Education
Christine Welsh studied at the University of Regina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in 1986.
Career Highlights
Christine Welsh has been making films for over 30 years. She writes, directs, and produces her own movies.
Her film career started in 1977 as an assistant editor. After working as a film editor in Toronto for ten years, she moved to Vancouver Island.
One of her most well-known films is Finding Dawn, a documentary from 2006. This film, made with the National Film Board of Canada, is about missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. It won a special award called the Gold Audience Award at the Amnesty International Film Festival in 2006.
Some of her other films include Women in the Shadows (1992), Keepers of the Fire (1994), Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (1997), and The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (2000).
Besides filmmaking, Christine Welsh was also a professor at the University of Victoria. She taught classes about Indigenous women and Indigenous films. She was the first Indigenous faculty member in the Humanities department at the university. She retired from teaching in 2017. In 2016, the University of Victoria created a special award in her honor, called the Scholarship for Indigenous Gender Studies Students. This scholarship helps students who are studying Indigenous gender topics.
Today, Christine Welsh lives on Saltspring Island.
Films by Christine Welsh
Here are some of the films Christine Welsh has worked on:
- Finding Dawn (2006) - A documentary about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
- The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (2000) - A documentary.
- Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (1997) - A documentary.
- Keepers of the Fire (1994) - A documentary.
- Women in the Shadows (1991) - A documentary.
Awards and Recognition
Christine Welsh has received several awards for her amazing work:
- 2006: She won the Gold Audience Award at the Amnesty International Film Festival for Finding Dawn.
- 2009: She received the Artistic Achievement Award from Women in Film and Television Vancouver for her excellent filmmaking, especially for telling women's stories.
- 2017: She won the Matrix Award for achievement in BC shorts at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival for her film The Thinking Garden.
