Directors: Shakti Butler, Rick
Butler Producer: Shakti Butler
Description: Healing
Justice explores the
causes and consequences of the current North American justice system
and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back
through the history of violence that has led to our current system,
bringing into focus the histories of trauma - on a personal,
interpersonal, community, and generational level. Designed for
dialogue, Healing Justice is meant to prompt questions and open
conversations, exploring trauma, justice, and healing: How do our
personal and collective histories of trauma affect who is perceived
as a 'perpetrator' and a 'victim' of violence? How can restorative
practices, such as restorative justice, be used to shift the way we
address crime and violence in our communities to produce safer,
healthier, thriving communities for all?
Biography: Shakti
Butler, PhD,
filmmaker and Founder & President of World Trust, is a dynamic
educator in the field of diversity and racial equity. Known as a
catalyst for change, she is hired by organizations seeking broader
support for their diversity & inclusion goals. Shakti is the
producer and director of The
Way Home, Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible,
and Light
in the Shadows.
Her latest film Cracking
the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity uses story, theater and music to illuminate the larger frame of
structural/systemic racial inequity.
Rick
Butler is a multiple EMMY award-winning director and cameraman with over 25
years of experience in documentary filmmaking. Butler won an EMMY for
his direction of the PBS documentary, The
Fillmore.
His camera work has supported films for several flagship PBS series: School
Colors, Freedom Riders, Paul Robeson: Here I Stand.
Rick is most interested in and proud of films that contribute to
positive social change such as his work on The
Color of Fear, Mirrors
of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and a project in progress with activist Van Jones that examines
environmental justice, Green
Shall Overcome.
