We went to the people's premiere in Cambridge (the film was screened simultaneously in 60+ UK venues - world record!), with a couple of friends. The atmosphere was great.
The film was brilliant (I know, I would say that, but really it was).
I urge you all to go and see The Age of Stupid, when it reaches a cinema near you sometime after the 20th of March.
In the film, Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? All the footage from 2008 and before is actual footage, ie real, happened, not made up. It is very powerful. The main focus is climate change, but it also weaves in other issues like peak oil, poverty and consumerism by focusing on people in different parts of the world and their various struggles to make the world a better place.
After the film there was a live hook up with the premiere in London where Franny Armstrong (director) and Lizzie Gillett (producer) chatted with Pete and others in the film and everyone gave Ed Milliband a bit of a grilling about doing the right thing at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Pete declared passionately that he would hand back his OBE and ask the Queen to disband the government if the government are generally "Stupid" about all things climate change related, like the giving the go ahead for the coal-burning power plant at Kingsnorth and the 3rd runway at Heathrow airport.
All of which you can see here:
The President of the Maldives got a standing ovation for his speech. He stated (via video) that the Maldives will be carbon-neutral within 10 years. Wow. You can watch the video now:
Message from the President of the Maldives from Age of Stupid on Vimeo
or at www.notstupid.org
The evening ended back in Cambridge where Rosemay Randall (Cambridge Carbon Footprint) and Tony Juniper (FOI director for 8 years) gave a couple of excellent speeches. Then Craig (Transition House) persuaded me that I needed to have my photo taken with Tony for this blog so here we are! (and yes I am wearing a dress!! well it was a premiere).
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Hi TH - I recognise that man :-D
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to have missed you that night. Perhaps we will get an opportunity to meet up on another occasion. That would be brilliant. Great review by the way. Ro Randall and Tony Juniper's speeches were very empowering at the end. I was there with my friend Lucy and Al from ooffoo\Natural Collection. A fab night :-D
Me again - I've got a special award waiting for you and Craig over at The Rubbish Diet blog. Do come over and pick it up from my awards night. It's in the newcomer category :-D
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