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Women in the Shadows
199155 min 55 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Norma Bailey
Production: Christine WelshSigne JohanssonTony SnowsillGinny Stikeman
Script: Christine Welsh
Co-produced by Direction Films and the NFB with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada and in association with CanWest Pacific Television Inc.
This intensely personal documentary follows Indigenous writer and filmmaker Christine Welsh as she embarks on an extraordinary physical and spiritual journey in search of her Métis foremothers. It is the story of one Métis woman's reconciliation with her past and her people--a coming to terms with loss and with the price that has been paid for assimilation, and a celebration of survival.
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Subject categories
- Women > Cultural GroupsFamily Life
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Fur Trades, Hunting and TrappingHistoryMétisWomen
- History > Early Colonization/Settlement
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Family Diversity and ChallengesRelationships
- Health/Personal Development > Identity
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
Credits
- director
- Norma Bailey
- producer
- Christine Welsh
- Signe Johansson
- executive producer
- Tony Snowsill
- Ginny Stikeman
- script
- Christine Welsh
- photography
- James Jeffrey
- sound
- David Husby
- editing
- Lara Mazur
- sound editing
- Debra Rurak
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- music
- Martin Gotfrit
- cast
- Carmen Roenspiess
- Jessica Wallman
- David Zelionka
- Brenda Knoll
- Jamie Sarophim
- Sophia Stone
- Sharon Moberly
- Debra Piapot