The Age of Stupid in a Cinema near You

Monday, 14 September 2009 14:35

21-22 September - on the eve of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's summit on climate change for Heads of State and Government - The Age of Stupid will be launched internationally as the biggest and greenest live film event the world has ever seen.
You are invited to join when A-list celebrities walk the green carpet to a solar powered cinema tent in downtown New York, linked by satellite to 700 cinemas in more than 50 countries. Go to your local theatre and watch the VIPs arrive in Manhattan by bike, rickshaw, electric car and sailing boat on the green carpet made from recycled soda bottles.

After the screening of the film there will be a further 40 minute event featuring Kofi Annan, Vice President of the Club of Madrid  and member of the GLCA Mary Robinson, the film's director Franny Armstrong, the star of the film Pete Postlethwaite and other leading thinkers, celebrities and political figures from around the world.

About the film
'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from Franny Armstrong the Director of 'McLibel'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?

To check out whether your cinema is screening the film or to book the event for your cinema, go to: http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere