1700-9, 70 minutes, 2003 Will Diane Charron ever be free? She began a life sentence behind bars in 1981 when she was entangled in a friend’s act of revenge and ended up stabbing a stranger to death. She had just turned 19. We follow the story of Diane’s life, from...
#1700-8, 52 minutes This 52-minute video follows Russell, a parolee, as he moves back to his home community in hopes of breaking his cycle of crime. The community is also ready for a change and, with the guidance of their Elders, an alternative justice approach based upon traditional community healing...
#1700-6, 41 minutes Compelling as an emotional and informative documentary for adults, and as a deterrent for younger viewers against the risks of entering a life of crime. Request
#1700-4, 1983 A series of interviews conducted across Alberta with Native Elders concerning Native Traditional Justice and how people were disciplined in the old days. This production can be used as a personal awareness guide in learning Native Traditional Justice and Culture. Request
#1700-3, 51 minutes This is the story of how Native prisoners in four western Canadian correctional facilities have won the right to practice their traditional spirituality behind the walls of places with names like “Stoney” and “P.A.”. This recognition was won by inmates only after a lengthy struggle in which,...
#1700-2, 90 minutes, 1989 “Justice Denied” traces the incompetence at every level that lay behind Donald Marshall’s wrongful conviction and long prison ordeal, focusing on the events between the night of the murder and the day that Marshall walked out of prison. Request
1700-24, 48 minutes, 2012 This film illustrates that there are obligations and opportunities to respond restoratively at every level of the justice system and that the public interest is served when the processes meet human rights obligations and satisfy sentencing objectives set out in the criminal code. Request
1700-23, 22 minutes, 2008 This presentation from the 2008 Aboriginal Justice Forum at UBC features Joe Solanto, PhD, who explains how trauma works at a physiological level as well as the effects of colonization and transmission of trauma over generations. Request
1700-22, 20 minutes, 2012 This film explores the fundamental differences in the idea and practice of justice in Aboriginal society versus western society. Request
1700-21, 68 minutes, 2009 This film features two brave First Nations women who challenged convention, bureaucracy and themselves to discover a healing process which included face to face reconciliation between them: one the family survivor of the murder committed by the other. Request
