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Is this The Age of Stupid?

Fri, Sep 11 2009 17:34 CET byGabriel Hershman 1198 Views
Is this The Age of Stupid?

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Sofia's Arena West cinema will be screening a special showing of British environmental movie The Age of Stupid on Tuesday September 22.

The evening begins at 7.55pm with a live satellite global event celebrating and featuring the British documentary film that is influencing government policy on climate change.

The Age of Stupid is a drama-documentary-animation starring Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking, in the old man's own words, "why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"

The movie is directed by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel, and John Battsek, producer of One Day in September.

The film's UK premiere was in March in a solar-powered cinema tent in London's Leicester Square.

The film will be released internationally on September 21st and 22nd at the "Global Premiere".

A green carpet, solar-powered cinema tent in New York will be linked by satellite to 442 cinemas across America and to more than 200 cinemas in more than 45 other countries. Special guests include Kofi Annan, Pete Postlethwaite and Gillian Anderson and Thom Yorke from Radiohead will sing live.

The Age of Stupid was shot in seven countries over three years. It features six separate documentary stories, archive footage and lots of animation from, among others, Passion Pictures, creators of the Gorillaz animations.

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