Video Letters from Prison
Video Letters from Prison (Dir. Milt Lee, 2010)
“Embark on a journey of transformation as one family from the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota finds healing through the path of the heart. Video Letters from Prison is an hour-long film that follows the lives of three Lakota girls from the Pine Ridge Reservation who meet their father for the first time in ten years via a series of video letters. In the four years that follow the initial exchange of letters, the producer documents the many changes that occur in the Poor Bear girls’ lives as the break in the family is mended. Included are a first visit to the prison, interviews with their mother Cindy Wheeler and their father Marvin Poor Bear, and finally the filming of each of the girls’ high school graduations.
Although Video Letters focuses on a single family from a South Dakota reservation, it has the potential to impact many lives. The film touches something both universal and fundamental to all of us: the core strength of the family.”
Additional reading:
Video Letters from Prison on amazon.com
Oxygen, October 15, 2021: Native American Woman In Oklahoma Convicted Of Manslaughter Over Miscarriage
Native News Online, October 11, 2021: 11 Members of Congress Write Letter to President Biden, Demanding Immediate Release of Leonard Peltier
Witness LA, October 11, 2021: How The Criminal Justice System Disproportionately Harms Native American People
