[imc-oxford-features] [Age-of-Stupid] Hello or Goodbye

[Franny Armstrong]

Hello,

This is the first message on our bumper, all-inclusive Spanner Films  
meets Age of Stupid meets McLibel meets Everyone We Ever Met mailing  
list. If you'd signed up to any of the other lists, you'll no longer  
be bothered by them, just this one. And if you want to get the hell  
off, the unsubscribing info is hopefully at the bottom of the  
message. Apologies if the formatting is horrible or the attachments  
non-attaching, we're working on it.

So, we finished our four-year climate change epic, now called The Age  
of Stupid. The film will be out in the next few months - more details  
any day, as soon as the deals are signed - but the first reactions  
have been genuinely astounding:
- Here's a load of people crying after the crew screening:
http://www.oneclimate.net/2008/05/25/major-climate-documentary-launches/
- and some of the written feedback:
http://www.crudemovie.net/news/kick_balls_hug

- And all the other Stupid news:
http://www.ageofstupid.net/view/news


Fundraising evening for Luharia's village:
http://www.spannerfilms.net/images/drownedout/drownedout_fundraiser.jpg
The villagers who starred in our Indian documentary, Drowned Out, are  
in desperate need of cash as they are now living in complete  
destitution. So we're holding a fundraising screening at the Inspiral  
Lounge, 250 Camden High St, London on Monday 15th September at 8pm.  
There will be a video link-up with Luharia, the main character in the  
film, live from India, who will explain exactly what they need the  
cash for: as far as we've understood so far on terrible phonelines,  
the priorities are a boat and some water pumps. The flyer should  
hopefully be attached to this message, so please forward it to anyone  
you know who might be interested. If you can't come, you can donate  
cash through the website: http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=354

SWOTS this weekend:
http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=1029
There's two places left on our filmmaking course this coming Saturday  
and Sunday: "Everything you need to know to make independent  
documentaries with no commision, crew or contacts... and still get 55  
million viewers."

NGOs and STUPID this Thursday:
We're having a screening and brainstorming session for NGOs working  
on climate change this Thursday morning in Central London. The idea  
is to work out how best to use the film to support their campaigns.  
There's still some seats left, so if you are an NGO/union/charity  
who'd like to come, please contact us on hello at ageofstupid.net

STUPID at Parliament: 7 MPs, 2 Lords, 1 Baroness, 1 (former) Deputy  
Mayor, 1 Party Leader and 1 movie star
http://crudemovie.net/news/ 
7_mps_2_lords_1_baroness_1_former_deputy_mayor_1_party_leader_and_1_movi 
e_star
The UK's ground-breaking Climate Bill is going through its final  
stages and will become law next year. So we screened the film to the  
All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change in the hope of  
persuading them to make the bill as strong as the science says it  
needs to be.

"Spielberg eat your heart out"
http://www.oneclimate.net/2008/08/08/pete-postlethwaite-at-the-movies-2/
Actor Pete Postlethwaite (one of the stars of The Age of Stupid)  
watched the film for the first time and gave us his feedback.

Filming us filming him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIY7SrKdsg
Not sure that someone making a film is really news, but we're not  
complaining about eight minutes on primetime Channel 4 news.

Lizzie on the news:
http://3news.co.nz/Video/Politics/tabid/370/articleID/69350/cat/61/ 
Default.aspx#video
Age of Stupid producer, Lizzie Gillett, held a private screening of  
Stupid last week, to help drum up ex-pat votes for the New Zealand  
greens... and then only went and ended up on the main TV news.

That's all for now, but there's tonnes happening and we'll start  
sending regularly news on this list now we've got it organised  
(thanks Tim and Pete and Garrett).

Hope all's well with you, apart from the upcoming apocalypse thing,

Franny & Lizzie
Spanner Films
http://www.ageofstupid.net


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