Juliet Belmas, a Canadian anarchist activist, was at age 18 labelled a terrorist and jailed in a maximum-security prison for 20 years in 1984, for her role in an urban guerrilla group known as Direct Action. After her sentence was reduced on appeal she was released to art school where she wrote, directed and produced several short films about women in prison that garnered multiple awards and led to participation in numerous Canadian and International film festivals, academic lectures and panel discussions.