Risking Light
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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.
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Cast
15 people
Dawn Mikkelson Director · Peter Rhodes Editor
Budget $192K · United States release March 3, 2018 · Produced in Australia, Cambodia, United States
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Budget
$191,843
Production
Emergence Pictures
Production
Australia · Cambodia · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Khmer
Release dates
United States · March 3, 2018
Premiere · World Premiere, 2018 Cinequest Film & VR Festival
Australia
July 14, 2018 · Premiere · Australian Premiere, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Cambodia
March 12, 2019 · Cambodia International Film Festival
Greece
October 25, 2018 · Chania Film Festival
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