Billy
Numéro de catalogue: VITAL1
Producteur: Vital Distribution
Producteurs: Stojanovic, Vuk
Réalisateurs: Côté-Collins, Lawrence
Agences de production: Vital Distribution
Sujet: Documentaire, Droit criminel, Orientation, Problèmes sociaux, Psychologie, Santé et Médecine, Sciences sociales
Langue: Anglais
Niveau scolaire: Post-secondaire, Adulte
Pays d'origine: Canada
Année du droit d’auteur: 2025
Durée: 105:38
Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.
Film is in French with English subtitles.
Grand Jury Prize – 5th Terraviva Film Festival – Italy, 2024
Student Jury Award – 5th Terraviva Film Festival – Italy, 2024
Student Jury Award – 27th RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival) – Canada, 2024
Special Jury Prize – 50th SIFF – Seattle International Film Festival – USA, 2025
Special Mention – 12th Dieppe Canadian Film Festival – France, 2025
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