Director/Script: John L'Ecuyer
Photography: Harald Bachmann
Editor: Craig Webster
Sound: Justine Pimlott
Music: Mark Korven
Producers: Julia Sereny, Gerry Flahive
Production: Sienna Films in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with: TV Ontario, CFCF-12, Knowledge Network, The Saskatchewan Communications Network, The Canadian TV Cable production Fund.
Distribution: National Film Board of Canada
First Broadcast: 21.01.1998
Western Psychological Association (WPA) Film Festival Olympia, USA 1998.
40. International Leipziger Dokumentarfilmfestival 1997.
World Film Festival Montreal, Canada 1997.
Selected Filmography John L'Ecuyer: Episodes of Traders, The Rez, Ready or Not, Shirley Holmes; UseOnceAndDestroy, 1995; Curtis'Charm, 1995.
Based on his own experiences, director John L'Ecuyer takes the viewer into the inner world of the heroin addict, starting with his own introduction to the Montreal drug scene, through to treatment and the start of a new life in Toronto. "Confessions" reconstructs a seven-year nightmare and offers a compassionate look at life on the street. However terrifying the picture, it is strong evidence that help for the addict is available and can be effective.