Past the Popcorn Chat With David Sington
The thing that may surprise you most about documentary filmmaker David Sington is that he is British — and the reason that may surprise you is how pro-America his film, In the Shadow of the Moon, due out next week, comes across.
Rather than taking a “see what America has become, how low we have sunk” approach, the film stoutly advocates that projects like Apollo are what characterize America; they are the rule, not the exception.
And given what we are usually told about how Europeans simply hate Americans, listening to what Sington has to say is quite a surprise.
The film combines NASA footage, much of which has not been publicly seen prior to this, with new interviews conducted with most of the surviving Apollo astronauts (Neil Amstrong, who is notoriously shy about speaking on camera, being a notable exception).
While Sington was in Seattle to promote the film at the Seattle International Film Festival, a publicist arranged for Past the Popcorn Managing Editor Greg Wright to meet with him at a downtown Seattle hotel.
