We wanted to provide some context for who this man is to this country and the complicated history he had. It's an important story to know as you see him go about his work with the climate crisis.

Gore has had a strained relationship with President Bill Clinton, although the former president has for years prioritized climate change in the work of the Clinton Foundation. Did you get a sense whether they collaborate on this issue?

Shenk: Al Gore's relationship with Bill Clinton never came up during the time we were with him. The one thing we didn't film was that he was passionate about Hillary's campaign, and really felt her stance on the environment and the continuation of a lot of the policies Obama started to put in place during his second term would continue during a Hillary presidency.

What are your hopes for the film?

Cohen: We hope people will go see it. We really feel that seeing a film can be the first step in winning the conversation about the climate crisis. It' s a way for the audience to become educated about how far we have come with the climate crisis, and the solutions that are out there to solve it. We're hoping it is going to cause people to act in small and maybe larger ways.

We're also hoping there's a way that, as Al Gore said in the film, we are at a tipping point with this movement where people can be galvanized to act in a way they may not have thought to do so before. I think a lot of people feel really paralyzed by the devastation of the climate crisis, and I feel the film proves there is hope for how we as a community and as a country can come together to move the needle.