BROADCASTS CONTINUE

The national public television broadcast of a one-hour version of The POWER of FORGIVENESS began mid-March, 2008.

In early March we also launched a new website thepowerofforgiveness.com that provides discussion materials for a wide range of interests, promoting ongoing conversations about forgiveness.

Also in March a new book based on the film, also titled The POWER of FORGIVENESS, written by Kenneth Briggs, former religion editor of the New York Times, was released by Fortress Press. You can order the book here.

You can learn more about the full length DVD (78 minutes) here.

The film examines the role forgiveness can play in alleviating anger and grief, as well as the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that come with forgiveness. It combines character-driven stories about the most dramatic transgressions imaginable with other stories that feel more familiar, more understandable to the viewer. The POWER of FORGIVENESS won Best Film award at the 2008 Sun Valley Film Festival.
 

The POWER of FORGIVENESS includes stories and interviews with people from many faith traditions: Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh; Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel on forgiveness in the Jewish faith; Azim Khamisa on forgiveness and Islam; Rev. James Forbes, pastor of Riverside Church in New York, on forgiveness from a Christian perspective. And best-selling author Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul) speaks on forgiveness from a spiritual dimension.

There are stories on forgiveness research, building a Garden of Forgiveness at Ground Zero and the Amish teaching on forgiveness. And we hear from doctors, psychologists and psychotherapists who present the measurable benefits of forgiveness and the hidden costs of unforgiveness.

Journey Films has taken The POWER of FORGIVENESS to more than 50 special screenings. Venues included the Lyric Theater in Blacksburg, VA, home of Virginia Tech, the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, Manhattan College in New York and Kirk in the Hills in Detroit. The film was screened at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville as part of a three-day Conflict Transformation Symposium, the finale of Peace Awareness Week. On November 15, 2007 the film was screened to staff at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City as part of their ongoing series Understanding Conflict.

If you are interested in arranging a special screening in you community featuring an appearnace by the filmmaker Martin Doblmeier, learn more about our standard arrangements here. Other options include public screening rights (you pay $200 for right to screen to an audience invited to your venue through promotion or advertising, charging no admittance fee) or fair use (you screen within your own church/synagogue as part of stanrd in-house rpgramming, charging no admission fee)>

The film is a presentation of South Carolina ETVMajor funding for THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS was provided by The Fetzer Institute as part of its Campaign for Love and Forgiveness and by The John Templeton Foundation.