The last team standing (sort of) at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Summit was The Age of Stupid TV Show production team.
The Stupid Show Recaps Copenhagen
You can watch a post -conference Age of Stupid Show with hosts Franny Alexander and Mark Laynas featuring interviews with attendees, dignitaries and others who left with strong opinions about the “agreement”. A re-freshingly non-American-centric perspective.
The filmmakers behind the groundbreaking documentary on climate change–The Age of Stupid—hope to webcast The Stupid Show live from the United Nationals Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December. To make this happen, they need your support.
I can’t believe I just wrote that headline – but the truth is stranger than fiction. The Guardian reported today:
Boris Johnson came to the rescue of a high profile climate change activist and filmmaker who was being attacked by a group of young girls brandishing an iron bar, it was revealed today.
Franny Armstrong, the director of The Age of Stupid, described the mayor of London as her “knight in a shining bicycle” after he came to her defence as she was walking home in Camden, north London, last night.
She called out for help to a passing cyclist after being surrounded by a group of hoodie-wearing young girls who pushed her against a car, one holding an iron bar.
She called out for help to a passing cyclist after being surrounded by a group of hoodie-wearing young girls who pushed her against a car, one holding an iron bar.
The cyclist turned out to be none other than Johnson, who has made tackling youth crime a key mayoral priority.
He stopped and chased the girls down the street, calling them “oiks”, according to Armstrong, who praised the mayor’s intervention.
Johnson returned and insisted on walking her home.
Armstrong is the founder of the 10:10 campaign, which aims to cut 10% of carbon emissions in 2010 and has attracted support from leading firms – including the Guardian – and personalities.
“I was texting on my phone so didn’t notice the girls until they pushed me against the car, quite hard,” she said.
“I noticed that one had an iron bar in her hand. It was very frightening. At that moment a man cycled past and I called out for help.
“He said to the girls: ‘What do you think you are doing?’ He picked up the iron bar, called after the girls and cycled after them. He returned a few minutes later and walked me home.
“He was my knight on a shining bicycle.”
Watch an interview with Franny Armstrong.
“The first successful dramatisation of climate change to hit the big screen.”
– The Guardian
Last month saw the world premiere of The Age of Stupid on the eve of the United Nations conference on climate change. 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’. Filmed in seven countries over four years, this enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance?
Visit the world of The Age of Stupid
Watch a United Kingdom televised report on The Age of Stupid and other eco-documentaries soon to be released.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan at the world premiere event in New York on the eve of the United Nationals General Session on Climate Change.
The exterior of The Archive in which Pete Postlethwaite’s character, the archivist, lives. This animation was produced by animator Greg McKnealley.
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