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Completed - ENGLISH - Documentary - 89 minutes

Log Line

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2009 (Premiere)
  • Toronto 2010 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Franny ARMSTRONG
Cast : Pete POSTLETHWAITE

Producer(s) : Lizzie GILLETT

Synopsis

‘The Age Of Stupid’ is the new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon).
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches ‘archive’ footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity’s achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we’ve achieved. He pulls together clips of “archive” news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why.

Production

Country(ies) : USA

GREECE SEVEN FILMS
PORTUGAL Sep 24, 2009 NOS LUSOMUNDO A
SWITZERLAN SSNI SA
TAIWAN AV-JET INTERNAT
UNITED KIN DOGWOOF
UNITED KIN ARTS ALLIANCE M


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