Agency - English program:.Atlantic Centre. Agency:.Produced by Wild East Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with CTV; with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund and Rogers Documentary Fund, with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit and Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.

Writer, Johanna Lunn ; director, Johanna Lunn ; producer, Johanna Lunn, Kent Martin ; cinematographer, John Walker ; sound recordist, Alex Salter, Harvey Hyslop ; picture editor, Michael Greenwood ; re-recording mixer, Allan Scarth ; executive producer, Johanna Lunn.

Participant, Anne Marie Hagan, Alan McBride, Julie Nicholson, Lesley Parrott ; narrator, Liz Richardson.

Recorded 2007.

There are crimes so unspeakably horrendous they seem unforgivable. And yet, some people do manage to forgive. Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time focuses on four individuals who have lived through events so painful and horrific they are unimaginable to most of us. Lesley Parrott's young daughter was stalked, raped and strangled. Anne Marie Hagan's father was murdered by the next-door neighbour. Alan McBride's wife and eight others were killed in an IRA bombing in Belfast. Reverend Julie Nicholson's daughter was killed on the London underground in an al Queda bombing in 2004. Through heartfelt interviews, archival footage and images shot by acclaimed cinematographer John Walker, filmmaker Johanna Lunn tells the stories of these characters as they absorb, cope with and attempt to move beyond brutal events in their lives. In a world wracked by increasing violence and horror, Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time brings hope that there are other possibilities beyond blind revenge - and that in forgiving others we can set ourselves free.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Best Mid-Length Documentary Award, 2007

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).