[imc-oxford-features] The Age of Stupid: cash, email list & secret screening

[Spanner Films]

Hello,

This is an invite to join the mailing list for our new movie, "The 
Age Of Stupid". Formerly know as "Crude", it's a modest little 
documentary starring five people in five countries, along with two 
animated teenagers living in the runaway climate change world of 
2055. Two teenagers who are having trouble understanding why we 
didn't stop climate change while we had the chance.

Sorry if you've got this message more than once or have no idea who 
we are or wish you'd never met us. This'll be the one and only cold 
call message, promise.

Unless you do decide to sign up to the Crude mailing list - 
instructions in separate email, which may now be lurking in your junk 
folder - in which case it'll be the beginning of a beautiful 
relationship.

While we're at it, please can you forward the message below to anyone 
you know who cares about climate change and has a few spare quid?

Ta v much.


Hope all's well with you,

other than the upcoming apocalypse thing,


Franny & Lizzie
Spanner Films

http://www.crudemovie.net
http://www.spannerfilms.net




[message to forward to your pals]


--- WANTED: FINAL CASH FOR "THE AGE OF STUPID"

Formerly know as "Crude", "The Age Of Stupid" is the new cinema 
documentary from the Director of "McLibel" and the Producer of the 
Oscar-winning "One Day In September".

Set in the runaway climate change world of 2055, this fast, furious & 
very funny film follows two animated teenagers looking back at 
"archive" documentary footage from 2007, asking: why didn't they stop 
climate change while they had the chance?

The film is utterly independent. Mostly to give it the best chance of 
reaching a mainstream multiplex audience, but also to avoid having TV 
execs telling us to tone it down. All of Director Franny Armstrong's 
films have been made outside the system, yet they've sold to 
mainstream TV & cinema and been watched by more than 53 million 
people worldwide. McLibel was just featured as one of only two UK 
films in the BFI's "Ten Documentaries Which Changed The World" 
series. (The other being no less than Michael Buerk's Ethiopia famine 
report, which led to Live Aid.)

The first 250,000 pounds of Stupid's budget was raised in 2004/5 by 
selling "shares" to people who care about climate change. The 
investors all own a percentage of the film - as do the crew, who are 
working for massively reduced rates. If the film takes as much money 
as Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" -  the biggest doc of all time, 
but still - an initial 500 quid investment would recoup about 60,000 
quid.... but if it takes as much as Franny's film "Drowned Out", 
it'll repay a grand total of 50. You get the warm fuzzy feeling 
either way.

The current status is that we've completed all the documentary 
filming - 247 hours shot in New Orleans, India, the Alps, the Niger 
Delta and Cornwall -    composed the orchestral score, written the 
drama script, storyboarded the animation and edited a 90 minute rough 
cut. We're aiming to launch at the Sundance Film Festival (without 
flying there) in Feb 2008, followed by international cinema release 
that Spring. So  now we're onto casting the child actors, hiring a 
greenscreen studio, designing a future computer, finding a friendly 
orchestra and buying all the coffee in London for the animation boys.

But first the small matter of raising the final 200K.

So roll up, roll up. Minimum investment 2.5K. Donations also most welcome.

The film:  http://www.crudemovie.net
The funding: http://crudemovie.net/page/crude_cash_0


- - - - - SCREENING
There will be a screening of the (very) rough cut at a central London 
cinema (donated for free to support the film) at 10am on Saturday 8th 
September. If you're considering investing and would like to come 
along to watch the film before you part with your cash, please 
contact Lizzie Gillett on  <lizzie at spannerfilms.net> or 07789 862 011.

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