Extremism: Confronting Hate Without Fear
Next Generation Now: Growing Influencers in the Alt Right and the
Language They Use
Film Screening of White
Noise (2020) & Panel Discussion of the Film and Book: Words on Fire:
The Power of Incendiary Language and How to Confront It
Friday, November 4th at 7:00 PM
Members &
Students (w/ID) $15 | Public $22 | Young Film Fan Members $10
Speakers:
· Daniel
Lombroso, filmmaker and journalist, The New Yorker (formerly of The Atlantic),
director of White Noise
· Helio
Fred Garcia, crisis expert, author, and award winning academic, Logos
Consulting, author of Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language
and How to Confront It
· Moderated
by Jacqueline Strayer
WHITE NOISE (2020)
The Atlantic's first feature documentary is the definitive
inside story of the movement that has come to be known as the alt-right. With
unprecedented access, White Noise tracks the rise of far-right nationalism by
focusing on the lives of three of its main proponents: Mike Cernovich, a
conspiracy theorist and sex blogger turned media entrepreneur; Lauren Southern,
an anti-feminist, anti-immigration YouTube star; and Richard Spencer, a
white-power ideologue. Directed and shot by Daniel Lombroso in his directorial
debut, this film takes the viewer into the terrifying heart of the movement --
explosive protests, riotous parties, and the rooms where populist and racist
ideologies are refined, weaponized, and injected into the mainstream. Just as
the alt-right comes to prominence, infighting tears the movement apart. Spencer
and Cernovich clash over the role of white nationalism in conservative
politics. Southern struggles to reconcile her leadership role with the sexism
and misogyny of her peers. Lawsuits mount and internecine fights erupt, but
even as the alt-right fractures, its once-marginalized ideas find a foothold in
mainstream discourse; in Republican politics; in the establishment right-wing
press, especially Fox News -- and on the world's biggest social-media
platforms. As white-nationalist violence surges in America and across the
world, White Noise represents an urgent warning about the power of extremism,
and where it's going next. (US, 2020,
94min., English | Dir. Daniel Lombroso)
Daniel Lombroso is a director and journalist.
His debut feature film, WHITE
NOISE, based on his four years reporting inside the alt-right, premiered in
2020 to critical acclaim. It was named one of the top documentaries
of the year by Vox and The Boston Globe. His latest
short, AMERICAN SCAR, received an Honorable Mention for the Grand
Jury Prize at DocNYC. Lombroso has been interviewed about his work in Variety, Vox, NPR, and Filmmaker Magazine, and been awarded five Vimeo Staff
Picks. He is the Senior Producer for video at The New Yorker, after five years at The Atlantic.
Helio Fred Garcia runs the Logos Institute for
Crisis Management and Executive Leadership. He teaches ethics, leadership,
communication, and crisis management at New York University, Columbia
University, and other universities and professional schools in the U.S. and other
countries.
His philanthropic energies are focused on protecting at-risk
communities and battling oppression, exclusion, and violence based on identity.
He is the author of five books including, most recently, Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language and How to
Confront It. His next book, in progress, is The Trump Contagion: How Incompetence, Dishonesty, and Neglect Led to
the Worst-Handled Crisis in American History.