The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
The May 24 screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Lawrence Côté-Collins
Winner of the Student Jury Award, RIDM 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 Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Lawrence Côté-Collins 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.
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