When Richard Moore was 10 years old, he was shot in the face and blinded by a British soldier.
Faced with his shooter more than 30 years later, Moore had an epiphany. “The first day that I found out his name, everything changed," he said. "It wasn’t a soldier then. It was Charles ... It was a human being.”
In Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness, one woman explores heart wrenching stories of grief and loss from conflict zones around the globe. The award-winning film is an intimate look at how people are able to rebuild after unimaginable tragedy, and the awesome power that forgiveness can play in the process.
The film has partnered with the website FilmRaise, which is dedicated to providing a free platform to showcase socially impactful films. For every view of Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness, the site and its partners will make a donation to a charity of the viewer’s choice.
On Sunday, Bassam Aramin, Rob Damelin, and Rami Elhanan joined producer and co-director Lekha Singh to host a session at the 2014 Social Good Summit.
Between screening poignant scenes, the panelists discussed the impact of the film, and how it's being used in various places to make difference, including hospices, the military and prisons. The idea: forgiveness transcends politics, religion and taking sides.
"I'm very hopeful that humans ... are capable of immense healing," Singh said on stage. "In the darkest places, and the darkest moments, you see the most light."
The Social Good Summit is a two-day conference about the intersection of technology and social good hosted by Mashable, the United Nations Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The event took place in New York City, with meetups hosted all over the globe.
Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness - Public Trailer from Lekha Singh on Vimeo.