Thursday, 10 July 2008

A lesson in forgiveness

Filed under: Africa files,Media and Conflict,Rwanda — story spotted by Catherine Morris @ 16:03 PDT

Reconciliation doesn’t come easily, but it does come.

Laura Waters Hinson has seen the process firsthand.

The 26-year-old Florida native who graduated from Furman in 2004 has spent the past three years working on a film about the process of reconciliation in the wake of the genocide in Rwanda.

Last month, the film won the Gold Medal Award for Documentary at the Student Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

But the young filmmaker says it may take her the rest of her life to process what “reconciliation” truly means.

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