BILLY

Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in jail. 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 reveals the full truth about this undiagnosed and untreated mental illness. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unseen video archives.

Where
Country

Canada

Year

2024

Genre

Documentary

Duration

107 min

Director

Lawrence Côté-Collins

Written By

Lawrence Côté-Collins

Camera

Lawrence Côté-Collins, Sophie Lanctôt, Benoit Rodrigue, Billy Poulin, Benoît Poulin, Josiane Lapointe, Pascal Brazeau, Sylvie Desmarais

Editing

Josiane Lapointe, Alexandre Leblanc, Lawrence Côté-Collins

Production

Lawrence Côté-Collins, Vuk Stojanović

When

September 2025

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