Lawrence Côté-Collins / Québec-Canada / 107’ / 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. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated.

Photography Lawrence Côté-Collins
Editing Alexandre LeblancJosiane LapointeLawrence Côté-Collins
Sound Benoit DameMartin Messier
Production Vuk Stojanovic9174-5018 Québec inc.

Lawrence Côté-Collins
Lawrence is a transparent artist. An authentic queer woman. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. She has an unconventional background in film and television. She has directed more than forty short films and three feature films: Écartée (2016), Bungalow (2022), and Billy (2024). Several of her films have been selected and awarded at festivals around the world. She co-authors, with Billy à vie, her first book as a curator. She also gives custom conferences: Living without alcohol – Supporting and Understanding Prison – Restorative Justice – The ABCs of Cinema.