Documentary Film
The Importance of a Forgiving Heart
The Bill Williams Story (2014)
'The Importance of a Forgiving Heart' is a documentary film about the important topic of forgiveness, focused around the treatment of First Nation Peoples in Canada. The documentary explores Bill William's story of abuse and the process of forgiving his abusers.
The film was shown at the Salt Spring Film Festival in 2014, where it garnered favourable reviews.
Hassan (2014)
Aunty Patricia's School is a non-profit primary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Jon worked on a project to assist Aunty Patricia’s School in securing funding for the construction of secondary school structure, as well as, a student latrine for the female students. This was done primarily through visual content production, crowdfunding campaigns and the creation of a school website. The work raised over 4000 dollars in funding for the school and helped create a website and a media library for the school to use in their future fundraising endeavors.
As a part of the project, Jon created a short documentary film about a student from Aunty Patricia's School, "Hassan" (2014), which documents the perseverance of a young boy while highlighting the ways the school is making a difference in the local community.
'Hassan' also won 3rd place at the 2014 My Hero International Film Festival in the College Documentary category.