My two cents - erm, pence??
After just having watched the Glasgow Film Festival screening of The Age of Stupid (and not knowing anything about it beforehand) on Sunday, I'm quite glad to have seen it, really enjoyed it as a thought-provoking doco/film piece.
And what made it all the more awesome for me, was that Franny Armstrong (the director) was present at the screening - she was sat at the front of the cinema room and fielded questions from anyone in the audience who'd just seen it. I got up and shook hands with her at the end and was able to have a chat - as a moviegoer I'd NEVER talked to a film director before in person at the actual screening of a film, so it was pretty cool!!
I highly recommend this film to anyone who has even a slight awareness of global warming and climate change. Unlike Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth - which had a politically motivated and somewhat dull angle on conveying the message about climate change - The Age of Stupid is an independent, crowd-funded film with a grassroots approach and focus on everyday people whose wildly different lives and situations are caught up in the whole climate change thing.
Come March 20th, check it out! If you won't, at least tell your friends about it - the director and her film crew needs as much buzz as possible about it, with a view towards getting good opening release attendance numbers and public awareness by the time UN Climate Summit @ Copenhagen comes about in Dec 2009
Bookmarks