What would you have needed in life to avoid imprisonment? This deceptively simple question fuels a filmic collaboration between directors Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, and Teresa MacInnes, and Nova Scotian prisoners Bianca, Treena, Laura, and Caitlin. Using these women’s diverse points of view to offer rare access to both a compromised women’s correctional facility and a broken criminal-justice system, Conviction serves as a powerful call to support, rather than punish, society’s most vulnerable.

Director: Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke, Teresa MacInnes

Runtime: 78 mins