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Dorothy Christian |
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Dorothy Christian is a writer, a video artist, and a producer/director of documentaries. She is of the Okanagan-Secwepemc Nations of the interior of British Columbia. Dorothy is a member of the Splats'in Indian Band, one of 17 Secwepemc communities. Ms. Christian has written over 75 mini-documentaries for the only multi-faith broadcaster in the world. Dorothy produced for VISION TV's SKYLIGHT news magazine program for 8 seasons. And with her freelance work, Dorothy added over 25 productions to her experience by directing series television, Art Zone Children's program, the Creative Native, and produced for APTN National News (Feb 14th Memorial Walk for Missing & Murdered women) & CTV's First Story (with Rebecca Belmore, Anishnawbe performance artist). In 2005, Dorothy produced a corporate video Combining Our Strength on Native Women & Leadership for the Minerva Foundation for BC Women Her works have screened at film festivals, traveled with major exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally. Many of Dorothy's works have a social activist bent; she has tackled some hard issues which include “Native, non-Native” relations in Canada. One of her pieces was included in the half hour which brought a Gemini to the SKYLIGHT Team at VISION TV in 2000 which covered precisely that topic. She filmed a dinner party of Native and non-Native women activists and scholars where hard questions were asked; i.e. “What do you think of this enormous guilt that white Canadians feel about us?” Her interest in peaceful coexistence comes out of her experiences at the so-called OKA Crisis (1990) and the Gustafsen Lake standoff (1995). For 16 years, Dorothy has been consciously examining what it would take to have “peaceful coexistence” within herself, in her community and in the country. That exploration has led her to international screenings of her work in Switzerland in 2003 and in Kenya and Uganda in 2005. Dorothy has just completed her first independent film, "a spiritual land claim"; which won the 2007 Dreamspeakers Film Festival's Best Experimental Award. The film has been described as a rich visualscape coupled with a rich soundscape, with very little narrative, which tells the story of one dispossessed Indigenous person who was affected on many levels by external forces, i.e. the violence of colonization, internal violence, white foster homes and addictions. Ms. Christian's undergraduate work was at the University of Toronto where she worked on a double major in Political Science and Religious Studies. Dorothy is currently attending full time graduate studies in the Communications Department at Simon Fraser University where she is exploring Indigenous Film AestheticsSource: http://www.interfaithjustpeace.org/about.php and reviewed by artist. |
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