Filmmaker, As We Forgive
www.asweforgivemovie.com
Laura Waters Hinson is the founder of Image Bearer Pictures in Washington, DC. Her documentary As We Forgive about Rwanda’s reconciliation movement won the 2008 Student Academy Award for best documentary. Laura recently launched Living Bricks, a multi-media viewer action campaign to support reconciliation efforts in Rwanda. In January 2009, she was awarded a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to build the As We Forgive Rwanda Initiative, a Rwandan educational program aimed at harnessing the power of film to promote healing after genocide. Laura is currently engaged in a nationwide screening tour, presenting As We Forgive in such places as the U.S. Congress, the State Department, Library of Congress, the World Bank and at numerous universities and institutions across the country. Recently, Laura partnered with Academy Award-winning executive producer Stephen McEveety (Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ) to distribute As We Forgive through Mpower Pictures. Laura received a master of fine arts degree in filmmaking from American University and has worked in the past as a Creative Arts Director, as a development coordinator for the Discovery Health Channel, and as a research assistant for MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
