Risking Light
2018•1h 27m•Released
Documentary
Dawn Mikkelson’s Risking Light is a meditation on forgiveness, layered with a theme that is rarely seen on the screen—forgiving the unforgivable. Five years prior to making the film, Mikkelson met Mary Johnson and O’Shea Israel, a meeting she describes as a life-changing event that would lead to the development of Risking Light. It was then she learned that Johnson had chosen to forgive Israel for the murder of her son, which motivates the tone of humanistic mission in the film.
Director
Dawn Mikkelson
Languages
Khmer, English
Studio
Emergence Pictures
Cast
Mary Johnson
Herself
Debra Hocking
Herself
Kilong Ung
Himself
Oshea Israel
Himself
Production
Company
Emergence Pictures
Producer
Miranda Wilson
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