Age of Stupid: climate change film premieres

This Sunday sees the launch of The Age of Stupid, the new UK eco-film which has already won several awards and excellent reviews:

“the first successful dramatisation of climate change to reach the big screen”

Starring oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

A People’s Premiere screens in venues from Plymouth to Inverness, via The Eden Project, and a solar-powered cinema tent pitched in Leicester Square, it is expected to be the world’s largest Premiere, screened at the same time from 60 UK venues. As well as the film, there will be a live link to the main Premiere in London where you can see the stars on the eco carpet.

I’m off to see it at a screen in London - you can find more details about the film, and where to see it, here: www.ageofstupid.net

Founder of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, will introduce the Eden Project Premiere, while the Fulham Vue cinema is hosting a special Youth Premiere for under-18s, organised by WeCAN, with teenage speakers and action packs to take away.

On the night Pete Postlethwaite will launch the Not Stupid campaign, with the start of a giant countdown marking the remaining days, hours & minutes until the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December. Copenhagen is being called ‘the most important meeting in human history’ as it is where the successor to the Kyoto Treaty must be finalised. Not Stupid is an epic mission to turn 250 million viewers into climate activists, all focused on making sure the deal agreed at Copenhagen is both just and truly as strong as the science demands.

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This entry was written by Nigel and posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 2:38 pm and filed under Cool things, Good things to do, Media, Climate change. Bookmark the permalink. You can follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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