EUGENE, Ore. -- (April 30, 2009) -- Métis writer and filmmaker Christine Welsh will screen her feature-length film "Finding Dawn," about the disappearance and murder of aboriginal women in British Columbia, at 3:30 p.m. on May 13, at the UO Knight Library Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St.

Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, the free, public event will include a discussion session with the filmmaker following the screening.

"Finding Dawn," a National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary made in 2006, follows the lives of three women believed to be among more than 500 missing and murdered women during a 30-year period in British Columbia.

Welsh is an associate professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in Indigenous Women's Studies and Indigenous Cinema. She has been producing, writing and directing films for more than 30 years.

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Contact: Julie Brown, 541-346-3185, julbrown@uoregon.edu

Link: Center for the Study of Women in Society, http://csws.uoregon.edu/

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