Kiwi producer Lizzie Gillett‘s critically-acclaimed eco documentary The Age of Stupid is about to premiere in London, already being described as the natural follow-on to Al Gore’s Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth.…The ambitious film is a mix of animation, drama and factual news content and is set in the future in a devastated world.
…The Age Of Stupid team took a punt and asked Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite to play the lead role.
…”The politicians have been coming directly to us instead of the public ground-swell rising and then pressuring the politicians,” Ms Gillett says.
“I mean so far we’ve screened in the UK Parliament, the Dutch Parliament, the EU Parliament.”
…Obama’s think tank has asked us to screen there and also Kofi Annan (a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations) is hosting a screening.”
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