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Christine Welsh
A Métis filmmaker born and raised in Regina, Christine Welsh began her film career as an assistant editor on Allen King’s 1977 dramatic feature Who Has Seen the Wind. She has since directed and produced her own work, films like Keepers of the Fire, Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (co-directed with Peter C. Campbell), The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters and the feature documentary Finding Dawn. An Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, she also teaches Indigenous Women’s Studies and Indigenous Cinema.
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The Story of the Coast Salish KnittersChristine Welsh 2000 52 minFor almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive sweaters are known and loved around the world, but the Indigenous women who make them remain largely invisible. Combining rare archival footage with the voices of three generations of woolworkers, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters tells the tale of unsung heroines--resourceful women who knit to put food on the table and keep their families alive. Written and directed by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, this is a story of courage and cultural transformation--a celebration of the threads that connect the past to the future. -
Finding DawnChristine Welsh 2006 1 h 13 minAcclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved.
