Healing (1978 film)

Healing
Directed byPierre Lasry
Written byPierre Lasry
Produced byMichael McKennirey
CinematographyDavid De Volpi
Savas Kalogeras
Edited byPierre Lasry
Production
company
Release date
  • October 1978 (1978-10)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Healing is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Pierre Lasry and released in 1978.[1] The film is an exploration of the issue of whether faith healing is a legitimate endeavour or a hoax, centred in part on controversial American evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman.[1] Figures interviewed in the film include Bernard Grad and Richard Casadorph as believers in faith healing, and William Nolen on the skeptical side.[2]

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film was screened theatrically in 1978, including at the Chicago International Film Festival and at a program of Canadian documentary films screened at the Canadian consulate in Boston,[3] before being broadcast by CBC Televisionon May 6, 1979.[1]

The film received a Canadian Film Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Alan Hardiman, "Laying on of hands fact or hoax?". Montreal Gazette, May 5, 1979.
  2. ^ "Film-maker drawn to controversial issues". Fort McMurray Today, May 4, 1979.
  3. ^ Michael Blowen, "Documentaries from Canada". Boston Globe, October 26, 1978.
  4. ^ Jay Scott, "Four films nominated for Etrogs". The Globe and Mail, August 24, 1978.