2. Christine Welsh: Out of the Shadow

Christine Welsh (Metis) is an award winning writer, born in Saskatchewan. In this episode we see Christine at work at the National Film Board in Vancouver, surrounded by terrible newspaper clippings and the photographs of missing Indigenous women. But we also see her at home on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, surrounded by flowers and natural beauty, providing the balance in her life that she brings to her films.

Her first film, Women in the Shadows, is a personal exploration of loss and assimilation. It is also a celebration of the survival, re-connection and essential strength of Indigenous ‘warrior women’ who reject assimilation and constantly and proudly breathe life into their cultures and languages. Her other films support these central themes, and Keepers of the Fire won her an Alanis Obomsawin Award for outstanding achievement in the Canadian Aboriginal film industry in 1994.

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