Billy
- Documentaire
- 105 min
- français
- 2024
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 Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.
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Billy
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Awards and recognition : Grand prix du jury, Terraviva Film Festival, Casalecchio di Reno - Italie
Prix du jury étudiant, Terraviva Film Festival, Casalecchio di Reno - Italie
Prix du jury étudiant, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Montréal - Canada
Mention Spéciale, Festival du film Canadien de Dieppe, Dieppe - France
Distribution : Vital Distribution, Raina Films
Diffusion : Festival de films d'auteur de Val-Morin (FFAVM) Val-Morin - Canada
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Montréal - Canada
Visions du Réel - Festival international de cinéma de Nyon, Nyon - France
Festival du Film Canadien de Dieppe, Dieppe - France
Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF), Leaf - Angleterre
Memorimage – Festival de cinéma de Reus, Reus - Espagne
Molodist – Festival de films international de Kiev, Kiev - Ukraine
Front Doc Aosta international film festival, Aosta - Italie
Terraviva Film Festival, Casalecchio di Reno - Italie
UnArchive Found Footage Fest, Rome - Italie
DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki - Finlande
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor - États-Unis
Festival international du film de Seattle, Seattle - États-Unis
Production : Vuk Stojanovic 9174-5018 Québec inc.