Summary Of Christine Welsh's Film Keepers Of The Fire

Question 3: Critically discuss Metis filmmaker, Christine Welsh’s film keepers of the fire (1994) and her course “Indigenous Cinema: Decolonizing the Screen.” What insights about Indigenous cinema did you glean from Welsh’s guest lecture on November 28, 2017?

The course, Indigenous cinema: decolonizing the screen, and Christine Welsh’s film, Keepers of the fire, both acknowledge that women’s portrayal are minimally presented in Indigenous Cinema. Additionally, she talks about the struggles in the Indigenous film industry. In this paper, I will explain the insights to how Indigenous films show a spilt between men and women, and how Filmmakers struggle to show their films in Canada. As well as to have the audience understand the filmmaker’s message in the film.
Welsh’s lecture explains the power struggles between an Indigenous man and woman. She says that the National Film Board was less encouraging to Indigenous woman filmmakers. It was already difficult to display an Indigenous documentary film, but it was even harder as an Indigenous female filmmaker to showcase her film. The film, Keepers of
During Welsh’s lecture, there were questions that were asked to explain how the film was ethical as the film showed rude and non-cultural behaviour. However, Welsh clarifies that we focus on what we see at first and forget to see the underlying message or to see another side to the film. She states that Bowman had little guidance, needs more education about her culture, and its difficult to decolonize or understand the colonialism because she has not dealt with the issues from the colonizers. Then, Welsh mentions about the way she produces an ethical film. She explains that to make an ethical film, you have to listen to the people’s story, understand the message they want to tell the audience, and let them guide the filmmaker through the way they want to show their