{"id":6389,"date":"2017-06-06T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=6389"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:29:40","slug":"mistissini-healing-docnow-festival","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/mistissini-healing-docnow-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistissini Healing Screens at DocNow Festival in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The seed of an idea for Mistissini Healing<\/em> came on a summer\u2019s day a few years ago. Carleton University\u2019s Stephanie Vizi, BJ\/14 (Journalism<\/a> and African Studies<\/a>) was spending time in northern Quebec, working as a leadership camp counsellor in the Cree community of Mistissini<\/a>. As she sat outside in the sunshine, chatting with the teen girls she worked with each day, the talk turned to suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“They were speaking in such a casual way about suicide \u2014 how many had tried it and why it didn\u2019t work out \u2014 that I remember being deeply disturbed that day,” says Vizi.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

She needed to better understand why these teens felt such immense hopelessness and decided that the power of film might be the way to get their stories told and get them the resources they need to experience hope for the future. \u201cWe know there\u2019s a suicide epidemic, but we know these suicides as numbers rather than people with families,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n