Christine Welsh is a Métis Canadian filmmaker, feminist and retired associate professor at the University of Victoria.
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).