Video Letters from Prison

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.

Video Letters, although it focuses on a single family from a South Dakota reservation, 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.