Risking Light
Overview
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.
- Production
- Emergence Pictures
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Crew
- Director
- Dawn Mikkelson
- Producers
- Miranda Wilson
- Composer
- Chris Strouth
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Simon Foster
May 31, 2018
"The immense courage and spiritual will it takes to truly ‘forgive’ beams from the screen in director Dawn Mikkelson’s Risking Light, a triptych of heartbreaking, soul-enriching narratives that combine to present a study in scarred but soaring humanity..." Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2018/5/29/risking-light.html