The Age of Stupid Premiere
0 Comments Published by Svetlana Zhukova on Monday, September 07, 2009 at 3:01 PM.
A couple of weeks ago I've attended a really cool event - Australia/NZ premiere of a climate change movie "The Age of Stupid" www.ageofstupid.net
(interesting how the news about the event reached me - through a newsletter of 'green pages' publication I'm subscribed to :)
It's like 'An Inconvenient Truth", but more personal, with several stories spanning across continents
It sounds very cliche to say the movie acts like a wake-up call, but in many senses it does. I came out reaffirmed in my career decisions and determined to make a contribution in demanding a global climate deal in Copenhagen. It's not enough to change the light bulbs anymore, time to make decisions on policy and economy levels. Or else it will to be too late.
-> GO AND SEE THE MOVIE - AND PLEASE READ ON
http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere
After months of extremely hard graft, Global Premiere tickets go on sale today. We're aiming to break our own Guinness World Record and launch the film in 600+ cinemas in 50+ countries on September 21st and 22nd September. We may even beat Star Wars to the biggest global film screening (though have to reach 800 or something cinemas for that (how ludicrous would it be if our little climate change doc beats Star Wars?!?)).
Check out the events in your country on The Age of Stupid website. The movie will screen in:
SPREAD THE WORD!
There are slight variations in the different countries, but the gist is:
- Solar-powered cinema in New York beaming by satellite to 50+ countries
- Cinemas round the world watch the green carpet arrivals (15 mins), The Age of Stupid (90 mins) and the live event afterwards (40 mins)
- Gillian Anderson, Pete Postlethwaite, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, Ed Miliband MP and Franny Armstrong speaking
- Thom Yorke from Radiohead singing live
- Live link-ups to a melting glacier in the Himalayas and a destroyed rainforest in Indonesia
- Top celebs arriving on bikes, rickshaws, electric cars, sailing boats, rowing boats and public transport before braving the papparazzi on the green carpet (which is made of recycled soda bottles)
Other highlights include a beautiful 280 seat theatre in Hong Kong,13 screens in Brazil, a live TV broadcast in Thailand to 4.5 million homes, a green carpet & candles event in Madrid, and a 585 seat cinema in the Maldives with the President as special guest
-My pics from the movie premiere in Sydney-
Green Carpet etc
If you are thinking of going, please could you book your tickets (by going to your country page above) within a week, as the distributors are going to assess how much interest there is and then pull any cinemas which don't look popular. Oh, and we're only on for one night, there isn't a week of screenings or anything, so if you miss it on the 21st/22nd September, then you've missed it.
Short film about UK premiere to give you a taste of what's in store: http://vimeo.com/6048944
Please help
As ever, we have zero dollars advertising, so please help get the word out.
1. Buy tickets to your local cinema for you, your mum, your boyfriend, your boyfriend's hairdresser and all their friends
2. Put together an outing for your school/sports team/church - make an evening of it by arranging a meal before or after the event (after may be better, as you'll all hopefully be inspired to start discussing how you can get involved in climate actions in your area)
3. Send the info round on any mailing list you are part of
4. Go onto the listing page (http://www.ageofstupid.net/globalpremiere), look through the locations and then send the details direct to your friends in whichever country/town/city they're in. There's an easy widget on each individual theatre's page, which lets you send the details without faffing around with emails.
5. Go mad on Facebook
6. Go mad on Twitter
Global Premiere page: http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122440801800
(interesting how the news about the event reached me - through a newsletter of 'green pages' publication I'm subscribed to :)
It's like 'An Inconvenient Truth", but more personal, with several stories spanning across continents
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man born in the 2000s, now living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at "archive" footage from 2007 and asking why we didn't stop climate change when we still had a chance?
The 92 minute film was filmed on location in America, the UK, India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan and the Alps. In addition to Postlethwaite, it "stars" a 92-year old French mountain guide, an entrepreneur starting a low-cost airline in India, a Shell oil man who rescued 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, an African woman living in Shell's most profitable oil region in Nigeria and two Iraqi refugee kids trying to find their brother.
It sounds very cliche to say the movie acts like a wake-up call, but in many senses it does. I came out reaffirmed in my career decisions and determined to make a contribution in demanding a global climate deal in Copenhagen. It's not enough to change the light bulbs anymore, time to make decisions on policy and economy levels. Or else it will to be too late.
-> GO AND SEE THE MOVIE - AND PLEASE READ ON
http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere
After months of extremely hard graft, Global Premiere tickets go on sale today. We're aiming to break our own Guinness World Record and launch the film in 600+ cinemas in 50+ countries on September 21st and 22nd September. We may even beat Star Wars to the biggest global film screening (though have to reach 800 or something cinemas for that (how ludicrous would it be if our little climate change doc beats Star Wars?!?)).
Check out the events in your country on The Age of Stupid website. The movie will screen in:
Antarctica, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Federated States of Micronesia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazahkstan, Kiribati, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, S Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Venezuela, Wales, Zimbabwe
SPREAD THE WORD!
There are slight variations in the different countries, but the gist is:
- Solar-powered cinema in New York beaming by satellite to 50+ countries
- Cinemas round the world watch the green carpet arrivals (15 mins), The Age of Stupid (90 mins) and the live event afterwards (40 mins)
- Gillian Anderson, Pete Postlethwaite, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson, Ed Miliband MP and Franny Armstrong speaking
- Thom Yorke from Radiohead singing live
- Live link-ups to a melting glacier in the Himalayas and a destroyed rainforest in Indonesia
- Top celebs arriving on bikes, rickshaws, electric cars, sailing boats, rowing boats and public transport before braving the papparazzi on the green carpet (which is made of recycled soda bottles)
Other highlights include a beautiful 280 seat theatre in Hong Kong,13 screens in Brazil, a live TV broadcast in Thailand to 4.5 million homes, a green carpet & candles event in Madrid, and a 585 seat cinema in the Maldives with the President as special guest
-My pics from the movie premiere in Sydney-
Green Carpet etc
If you are thinking of going, please could you book your tickets (by going to your country page above) within a week, as the distributors are going to assess how much interest there is and then pull any cinemas which don't look popular. Oh, and we're only on for one night, there isn't a week of screenings or anything, so if you miss it on the 21st/22nd September, then you've missed it.
Short film about UK premiere to give you a taste of what's in store: http://vimeo.com/6048944
Please help
As ever, we have zero dollars advertising, so please help get the word out.
1. Buy tickets to your local cinema for you, your mum, your boyfriend, your boyfriend's hairdresser and all their friends
2. Put together an outing for your school/sports team/church - make an evening of it by arranging a meal before or after the event (after may be better, as you'll all hopefully be inspired to start discussing how you can get involved in climate actions in your area)
3. Send the info round on any mailing list you are part of
4. Go onto the listing page (http://www.ageofstupid.net/globalpremiere), look through the locations and then send the details direct to your friends in whichever country/town/city they're in. There's an easy widget on each individual theatre's page, which lets you send the details without faffing around with emails.
5. Go mad on Facebook
6. Go mad on Twitter
Global Premiere page: http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122440801800
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