Nicholas Ma

Nicholas Ma, documentary filmmaker behind Won't You Be My Neighbor? and Leap of Faith, explores empathy, faith, and how to stay connected across deep differences. He recounts convening pastors with opposing views, the tense line exercise, unexpected vulnerability, and how time, witness, and proximate care can build durable relationships despite disagreement.

Nicholas Ma, filmmaker behind Won't You Be My Neighbor and Leap of Faith, explores faith, community, and empathy through cinema. He recounts making Leap of Faith with pastors wrestling over real theological and cultural divides. Conversations about vulnerability, staying present in pain, and choosing relationship over certainty shape the film. He reflects on friendship across difference and the slow work of change.