The Age of Stupid Arrives in the US
September 21, 2009
7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT/ 5:30 PM MT/ tape delayed 8PM PT
Come and be inspired to take action on climate change. On September 21 the critically acclaimed The Age of Stupid Live will make its US debut. The film will be simulcast LIVE from a solar tent located in downtown New York to over 400 movie theatres nationwide at 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT/ 5:30 PM MT/ tape delayed 8PM PT.
The Age of Stupid is the new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Brought to you by
Fathom Events, The Age of Stupid will launch in America on September 21st 2009 from a solar-powered cinema tent in New York LIVE to 115,000 people in 400 movie theatres right across the country.
Check this map of all the American cinemas who’ve signed up for the US launch on 21st September
. Tickets are now on sale.
This
One Night Only live event is your only chance to see
The Age of Stupid on the big screen and is timed for the day before the UN’s climate meeting on September 22nd, when 80 Heads of State – and therefore the world’s media – will gather in New York. (The event has also just been confirmed as being an official part of
UN Climate Week.)
As an INclusive, rather than EXclusive event, everyone is invited to go to their local theatre to watch the VIPs arrive in Manhattan by boat, bike, rickshaw, chipfat car or skateboard, before braving the paparazzi on the
green carpet. Following the first US screening of
The Age of Stupid, there will be a further 40 minute live event featuring
Kofi Annan,
Gillian Anderson,
Mary Robinson,
FRSA, the film’s director
Franny Armstrong, the star of the film
Pete Postlethwaite, and other leading thinkers, celebrities and political figures from around the world. Audiences will hear from scientists working in the Himalayas and Indonesian rain forest via live satellite link and from a group of children speaking from the very room in Copenhagen in which all our futures will be decided at the
UN climate summit in December.
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke will wrap up the evening with a short acoustic performance.
Timings are: 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT / 5:30 PM MT / tape delayed 8PM PT.
The Age of Stupid was shown and discussed at the RSA in London in May. http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/the-age-of-stupid . The discussion was led by George Monbiot, writer and campaigner; Franny Armstrong, director of The Age of Stupid ; Dr Richard Betts, head of climate impacts at the Met Office and Lord Stern, economist and author of the Stern Review participated by satellite. There is a very interesting exchange around Stern’s suggestions on China. http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/stern_meet_china_half_way
For more info on the film - www.ageofstupid.net
To purchase tickets – http://www.FathomEvents.com/AgeofStupid
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