The Cross of the Moment – The Movie Gourmet

Artistic Director Nicholas Goodman has programmed an especially strong slate of documentaries at this year’s International Film Festival of North Hollywood (IFFNOHO):

IFFNOHO is showcasing the LA premiere of Gazelle: The Love Issue LA premiere as the festival’s opening night film on Thursday, April 28, and it’s a sure-fire crowd-pleaser.
The Cross of the Moment helps us understand the bleakness of the “or else” if we fail to stall or reverse climate change. The IFFNOHO screening is the world premiere of this absorbing and important film.
Peter Miller’s documentary Projections of America reveals the story of American-made World War II propaganda films, designed to reassure the soon-to-be-occupied Europeans. “Propaganda” is a sinister word, and the surprise in Projections of America is how indirect, subtle and superficially benign these slice-of-American-life movies were.
The most popular of the propaganda films in the Projections of America series, Autobiography of a Jeep, has its own separate screening at IFFNOHO.

The International Film Festival of North Hollywood (IFFNOHO) runs from April 28 through May 1, and here’s the entire festival program.

There’s no slick TED Talk or cool graphics in the compelling and sometimes chilling documentary The Cross of the Moment. In that way, it’s exactly the film that An Inconvenient Truth was trying NOT to be. But The Cross of the Moment is actually the more ambitious film because it’s not trying to convince us that global warming exists or is caused by humans – it’s helping us understand the bleakness of the “or else” if we don’t stall or reverse climate change.

Indeed, we hear from talking heads (really, really smart talking heads). Director Jacob Freydont-Attie has selected scientists who are as able as the great scientific popularizers like Carl Sagan and James Burke. It’s stripped down, undiluted science from scientists – but ever lively. As a result, we in the audience are able to connect the dots ourselves. We are in Deep Shit. And capitalism itself may keep us from digging our way out.

The International Film Festival of North Hollywood (IFFNOHO) will present the world premiere of The Cross of the Moment on Sunday, May 1.

IFFNOHO Preview: the documentaries

THE CROSS OF THE MOMENT: the bleakness of the “Or Else”