The Age of Stupid

The Eco Film on Friday, October 9th:
The Age of Stupid

Here’s the trailer via visionOntv:

Won Best Documentary awards in 3 film festivals

Genre: Documentary. Director: Franny Armstrong. UK, 2009. 92 Minutes.

Blurring the boundary between sci-fi and documentary, Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid peers back in time from a climate crisis-wracked 2055 to lament our current inaction on the mother of all conflicts: The war on terra. In this new ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid Pete Postlethwaite stars as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we still had the chance?” He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place.

For more information visit The Age of Stupid.

‘Bad Futures’ features 31 languages that will feature on the retail DVD of The Age of Stupid – due for release in Autumn 2009. Here is the Hindi version:

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