This feature documentary profiles four residents of the Brockville Mental Health Centre, a forensic psychiatric hospital for people who have committed violent crimes. Four patients—two men and two women—struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them. Shrouded in stigma, institutions like this one are places into which patients disappear from public view for years.
Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner, the director of critically acclaimed ‘NCR: Not Criminally Responsible’, was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness.
Click here to watch another John Kastner film about crime and mental health: https://youtu.be/-vkQEb-CmSE
From Out of Mind, Out of Sight
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