Please arrange to see this
important film about climate change (details below) which premieres on 15
March. The more people see it that and the following weekend, the
more cinemas will arrange to show it. Please forward this email to
others.
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From: Franny Armstrong <franny@...>
Date: 2009/3/2
Subject: [Age-of-Stupid] "It doesn't work, it cannot work, it will never work"
To: age-of-stupid@...
From: Franny Armstrong <franny@...>
Date: 2009/3/2
Subject: [Age-of-Stupid] "It doesn't work, it cannot work, it will never work"
To: age-of-stupid@...
Morning all,

Quick, quick,
our hot-off-the-press Making Of documentary is on the Guardian homepage (next
to the super-adorable Morph flashmob), but just for a couple of
hours: http://www.guardian.co.uk
If we've been dumped by
the time you read this, the direct link is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/02/age-of-stupid-making-of
The doc is a 50 minute romp through every step of the process from
the first fundraising evening way back in 2004 to adventures in Nigeria,
Jordan, India, New Orleans, Podington & Chamonix, via an animation shoot in
the Camden canal and a disastrous preview screening at the Curzon ("It
doesn't work, it cannot work, it will never work"), right up to Pete
Postlethwaite saving the day in the carpet warehouse in Willesden. Hats off
to editor Justin who's had a total of three hours sleep
since Friday to get it to the Guardian office at 7am this
morning.
Unbelievably, we sold all but one of
the remaining shares this weekend, as a direct result of the Guardian profile piece on Saturday. (That's a cool
60,000 quid in the coffers, but, hang on to your hats Team Stupid,
there'll be no holidays just yet, as that cash is just passing through on its
way to paying for the Indie Screenings software and the production of the DVD). Which leaves just one little lonely 10K share left if anyone wants
it...
Lots more press:
-
"It's hit the roof" - Pete P on Simon Mayo's Radio 5 live show
-
"Shot through with sardonic anger, but never despairingly so"
- Don't Panic magazine review
- "Incredibly
interesting as well as being, well, a bit terrifying" - Little White Lies review
-
"If you're not moved... your heart must have turned to stone"
- Positive TV blog
- "Not a lot of
sleep, no" - oneclimate audio interview with me looking very rough after a
long night editing
- "If you care about yourself or your
family and friends, you must see this film" - Attitude magazine (not
online yet)
Big kudos to our champion rabble
rousers who've already managed to sell out (or near-as-damn-it) their
local cinemas: Ganga in Birmingham, Simon in Edinburgh, Dave in
Maidenhead, Nicky & Pete in Exeter, Betty & Annie in Islington,
Maria & Adrian in Oxford, Jerry & Jeremy in Bristol and Anthony in
Norwich.
But we're not doing so well
in Blackburn, Bury, Inverness, Harrow, Leeds, Livingston, Longwell, Romford, Scunthorpe, Shepherds
Bush, Southport, Staines and York. So please do forward the attached
flyer to everyone you know in those places. And if anyone in London has
kids, there's a special youth premiere in Fulham with young speakers and free
action packs. (The film is 12A, so anyone under 12 has to be accompanied by an
adult.)
Other speakers are confirming all over the
shop and highlights now include:
- Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition
Towns at the Eden Project. [Book tickets]
- Tony Juniper, ex-director for
FOE & leading light of The Big Ask campaign in Cambridge. [Book tickets]
- Pete Postlethwaite, Franny
Armstrong, Mark Lynas and Ashok Sinha from Stop Climate Chaos in the solar
tent. [Sold out]
- Mike Childs from FOE in York [Book
tickets]
- Chris Goodall from the Guardian/Indie in Oxford
[Book tickets]
- Martin Nicholls from
Christian Aid in Exeter [Book tickets]
- Roger Creagh-Osborne from
Airport Watch in Plymouth [Book tickets]
- Mike Robinson from Stop Climate
Chaos in Glasgow [Book tickets]
- Anella Wickenden from
ActionAid in Islington [Book tickets]
- Chris Worrall from Oxfam in
Manchester [Book tickets]
What will the
bizarre request be this time:
- 20 lovely volunteers needed
this weekend, March 7/8, to help make up the action packs which, if
all goes to plan, every viewer in every cinema will receive along with their
ticket. That's, eek, 20,000 packs in two days. We can cover travel expenses
within London and Lily and her pals are going to make everyone
lunch. 10am-> 5pm in Islington. Please contact lily@... if
you can do one or both days.
Presents all
round:
We've got a great big pile of beautiful posters crying out to be stuck up all over
the country before the premiere. So if any of you have a great spot - an
office, an NGO, a train station, a shop window, a school - where lots of people
would see it, just email your postal address to rhiannon@... and she'll get one in the post to
you. UK-only though. If you'd care to make a five quid donation to
cover the cost & postage, that'd be great, but not absolutely vital as our
priority is to get the little darlings up.
Think that's it for now. A smaller version of the flyer
attached, sorry if the last one hogged your mail boxes.
Back soon,
Franny, Rhiannon &
Justin

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