Bad moon rising

After decades of relative calm, bigotry is once again on the rise in the United States. BAD MOON RISING focuses on the groups which are perpetrating racial and religious intolerance, and looks at the victims of such bigotry: Black families in the suburbs each of San Francisco; Jewish synagogues and Holocaust survivors in Los Angeles; and Mexican families in California’s Central Valley. Talbot focuses on California as an example of a troubling national trend, and puts today’s racial and religious bigotry in historical perspective. But BAD MOON RISING also looks at how people are reacting to the resurgence of bigotry covering KKK counter-rallies as well as cross-burnings; and show church groups, unions and community activist are fighting the new racism. Among the people interviewed in the film - along with the victims of bigotry – are Julian Bond of the NAACP; David Lehrer of the Anti-Defamation League; KKK leader Bill Wilkinson; Christian theologian Robert McAffe Brown; and holocaust historian Lucy Dawidowicz. What is the significance of the program for input? This program is a good example of American “news-style” documentary production. No staged events, nothing pre-scripted. Interviews ‘on the scene’ as events unfold; live action footage; video assembled from all over the United States. Interesting historical stills and black & white footage tracing the roots of the KKK and organized bigotry; dramatic and disturbing film form Auschwitz to illustrate the folly of a bigoted group perpetrating the thesis that the Holocaust never happened.