The Gift of Time is a powerful story of reconciliation and redemption in a family who thought it was not possible. When the filmmaker’s mother is faced with her own mortality, she provides her family the opportunity to confront secrets and traumas of their past. In the midst of physical illness, emotional relationships grow healthier and more mature. This is a journey of acceptance and forgiveness to the gifts she ultimately gives herself, her family and you, the film’s viewers.

“This was an incredibly challenging journey, but ultimately I realized that film was only a catalyst, a carrier for the real purpose– to help spread the healing that occurs in the film out to audiences in their own lives.” –Francis James, filmmaker

This film takes us to place where we may find new relationships possible in our own lives, this is the real purpose of the film.

The filmmaker has self-financed this film for the past six years.