The Friends of the John Jermain Library are hosting a showing of the PBS production of the documentary film, Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate, on Sunday, May 5 from 11am—3pm. All proceeds are for the benefit of the library for the acquisition of equipment and funding of programs. Tickets are $75.00. Purchase is available with credit cards on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/documentary-film-forgivenessinterview-with-writerdirector-helen-whitney-tickets-863818443217?, as well as by check without a service fee, by mailing check and attendee information including e-mail address, to Marilyn Knowles, Friends of JJML, John Jermain Memorial Library, 201 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. NO reservations will be held without payment. The theater has seating for 38 attendees; lunch in the Rosenberg Room on the third floor has capacity for 60 people.
Please note: Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate was originally a two-part series of two hours each part. This showing will be an edited version. All paid attendees will receive via e-mail a link to the full two part production as it appeared on PBS.
A Time to Love and a Time to Hate "explores the mystery of forgiveness in all its facets, ranging from infidelity to genocide, from intimate dramas of emotional betrayal to Rwanda's genocide. From the atonement of a 60's radical to modern German's penitential journey. These gripping, complex stories raise fascinating questions and reveal that forgiveness can be powerful, even transformative, but it can also be limited and on occasion dangerous.
Speakers:
Helen Whitney, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago, MA, is an award-winning, Oscar nominated filmmaker with over forty years of experience producing dramatic features and documentary films. Her subjects have stretched across a broad spectrum of topics including youth gangs; a portrait of the 1996 Presidential candidates; a Trappist monastery in Massachusetts; the McCarthy Era; Pope John Paul II; The Mormons; Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero; Forgiveness in the political and personal realm; Awakening to Mortality; Darkness and Light in Richard Avedon’s portraits.
Kris Liem is an Emmy Award winning documentary film editor. She began in the film business in the early 70s with the Maysles brothers and went on to edit films airing on all the major networks, as well as screening at film festivals including Sundance, DOC NYC, Hamptons International and Hamptons Doc Festival. She is best known for her work at PBS: 5 American Masters profiles including Richard Rodgers and Joan Baez, the Frontline on Grand Central, the series Broadway, The American Musical, and others. She has worked with Whitney on 4 films including Into the Night Parts 1 and 2.
