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Join us for the screening of: Age of Stupid

18:00: Registration

18:30: Film Screening

19:50: Q&A

20:00: Networking

The Age of Stupid is a 2008 film by Director Franny Armstrong(McLibel, Drowned Out) and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. It is a co-production between Franny's company Spanner Films and Executive Producer John Battsek's (One Day In September) company Passion Pictures.

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars 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? 

Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we’ve achieved. He pulls together clips of “archive” news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why, by focusing on six human stories.

The film was released in 2009 and became one of the most talked-about films of the year. It also spawned the hugely-successful 10:10 campaign.

To find out more about this film, click here.

Source: The Age of Stupid - The Film

Confirmed Speaker for the Evening:

Lizzie Gillett, Producer, Age of Stupid

Lizzie Gillett came to London from NZ in 2001, where she'd been working in TV producing a weekly sports show. She volunteered to work with indie filmmaker Franny Armstrong (McLibel) at Spanner Films and by 2004 Lizzie was the sole producer on ‘The Age of Stupid’.

Over the five year production she managed a crew of 105 people in six countries and a budget of one million pounds.
In March 2009, the solar-powered Age of Stupid "People's Premiere" set a new Guinness World Record by being simultaneously screened in 63 cinemas across Britain, whilst only producing 1% of the emissions of a standard premiere. The film was the number one at the UK box office on it’s opening weekend, reached number four in the Amazon pre-order charts and was nominated for best documentary at both the prestigious Grierson awards and the BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards). Lizzie produced the Global Premiere of the film, an event which more than one million people in 63 countries participated in, including Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Moby and Kofi Annan who all appeared live as part of the post-screening show.

For this Guinness World Record breaking event she managed over three hundred people across the 63 participating countries. Working closely with both mainstream commercial cinema distributors and campaigning organisations such as Greenpeace, Moveon.org and Avaaz proved challenging as their motives were so different (profit versus political change) but all parties were happy with the results – a real success for getting a radical political message into the mainstream.