Documentary 'With This Light' to receive 2023 CIMA Social Justice Award

with this light (Miraflores Films LLC)

With This Light will be presented the 2023 Social Justice Award for documenting the life and ministry Sister María Rosa Leggo, which has accelerated the cause for her beatification and ensured that her humanitarian efforts continue in Honduras.

The award will be presented as part of the annual film showcase at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress on Friday, February 24 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The program will include a conversation with Co-director Nicole Bernardi-Reis and a full screening of the documentary.

During her 70 years as a nun, Sister Maria Rosa Leggol helped over 87,000 Honduran children escape poverty and violence through an ecosystem of social, educational and entrepreneurial projects, inspiring an international network of supporters to expand her work. In the midst of civil wars, economic collapse and natural disasters, she continued her charge to help young people, such as Maria and Rosa, break familial cycles of poverty and violence to create lives of their own. With This Light poetically interweaves the compelling present-day stories of these teenagers with the epic life and noble actions of Sister Maria Rosa.