Film Description:
"Women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population in Canada. A filmmaking team attempts to understand this statistic by documenting the experiences of a few incarcerated women and embarking on a collaborative project that reveals the intricacies of a broken system. When the women on the inside are empowered with cameras and the freedom to narrate their own stories, they flip the narrative from a voyeuristic lens to an authentic point of view, inviting us to witness their triumphs and struggles in a deeply intimate way. Repetitive convictions and sentences become the norm within a hugely deficient support system. Working with an advocacy group, the women make the choice to join the decarceration movement and have their say in building a world without prisons and punishment."
-- Mariam Zaidi
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Film Description:
"Conviction envisions alternatives to prison through the eyes of women behind bars and those fighting on the front lines of the decarceration movement. Not another 'broken prison' film, this collaboration is a 'broken society' film—an ambitious and inspired re-build of our community, from the inside out. The film compels viewers to examine why we imprison the most vulnerable among us, and at what cost."
-- National Film Board of Canada
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