Risking Light

Dawn Mikkelsons Risking Light is a meditation on forgiveness layered with a theme that is rarely seen on the screenforgiving the unforgivable Five years prior to making the film Mikkelson met Mary Johnson and OShea Israel a meeting she describes as a lifechanging 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