STILL A BEST-SELLER

After more than 50 special screenings at venues like Virginia Tech and the United Nations, and a national release on PBS stations as an Easter special, the film continues to be a best-seller. Used in conjunction with a variety of conversation guides, discussion tips and facilitator and participant guides, the film is starting thousands of small-group initiatives around the country.

The POWER of FORGIVENESS includes feature stories on the Amish, the 9/11 tragedy, and peace-building in Northern Ireland, along with interviews with renowned Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, best-selling authors Thomas Moore and Marianne Williamson, and others.  It explores the role forgiveness holds in various faith traditions and examines how the scientific community is now measuring the physical and mental benefits of letting go of grief and resentment.

Over the last 20 years forgiveness has come into its own as an area of academic study. Researchers are examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness on individuals and within relationships under a wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault. Clinicians have developed interventions that guide people through a process that allows them to forgive transgressions and get on with their lives.

explores this important work and translates it into a popular, accessible documentary film for national public television. The broadcast is only one part of a national outreach strategy that included limited theatrical release, a major Internet presence, a print and electronic media promotional campaign, and a variety of national and local conversations that form part of The Campaign for Love and Forgiveness. The focus is on the emergent understanding of contemporary research that forgiveness is a valid tool with real potential for personal and spiritual transformation.

THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS 

  South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV), long recognized as a provider of quality
  programming to national PBS, is the presenting station. Major funding was provided by The Fetzer Institute as part of its Campaign for Love and Forgiveness and The John Templeton Foundation, Investing in the Big Questions.
 

loveandforgive.org
 

READY FOR RELEASE

WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL: A New Century, A New Calling
Journey Films has completed on a one-hour documentary called WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL: A New Century, A New Calling. It will be ready for Christmas release on DVD and will broadcast on PBS stations for Easter, 2009.

Shot in high-definition, the film examines the role of The National Cathedral in Washington, DC one hundred years after its founding and at the dawn of the third millennium. Archival footage and photographs depict the amazing 83-year construction era ending with the placement of the final finial by President George H. W. Bush. From that point on, and looking into the future, the story is about the unfolding understanding of what it means to be a house of prayer for all people in an increasingly diverse nation.The film will be presented to national public television by South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV).

STILL AN AMAZON BEST-SELLER

BONHOEFFER
The Journey Films' feature film production, BONHOEFFER, was broadcast nationally on PBS television on February 6, 2006. The hour-long broadcast, on the date marking the 100th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's birth, was the first national broadcast of this acclaimed film detailing the life of this German theologian who lost his life working to overthrow Adolf Hitler.

Reviews from a variety of media, including the CBS radio network, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, praised the film and the story it told. In a lead-up to the national broadcast, special showings and discussion groups were held at a number of religious institutions around the country, including Chicago Sinai Congregation, Washington National Cathedral and New York's Union Theological Seminary. Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier participated in discussion sessions held in conjunction with these screenings.

Supplemental discussion guides and additional information on the man and his times are available here.

NOW AIRING ON PBS STATIONS

ALBERT SCHWEITZER: Called to Africa 
This new docudrama is the true story of a brilliant theologian, philosopher and musician who left a life of privilege in Europe, trained as a doctor and went to Africa to care for the people of the French Congo (now Gabon). In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. The story is told largely through his wife, Helene, who trained as a nurse and initially accompanied him to Africa.

The Gabriel Award-winning film was produced in association with Lightworks Producing Group for Faith and Values Media. The film released to public television for April 2007 in its initial broadcast.

 IN DEVELOPMENT

CROSS THE LINE

Scripting is complete for Journey's new independent feature film called CROSS THE LINE, the story of several characters whose lives intersect at a church at the US/Mexican border. Partnerships are now being formed to help put the film into production in 2009.