See http://www.ageofstupid.net/contact_us . But hopefully this FAQ covers everything you need to know anyway.

Spanner Films was founded by director Franny Armstrong in 1997, although it was originally called just Spanner.
This lot made our best-known film, The Age of Stupid: http://www.ageofstupid.net/crew
These funders funded it: http://www.ageofstupid.net/funders
Franny Armstrong directed it: http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/franny_armstrong
Lizzie Gillett produced it: http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/lizzie_gillett
John Battsek exec-produced it: http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/john_battsek
Pete Postlethwaite stars in it: http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/pete_postlethwaite
As do six documentary characters: http://www.ageofstupid.net/the_stars
The Not Stupid campaign attempts to inspire climate action: http://www.notstupid.org
10:10 is Stupid's big idea to cut 10% of emissions in 2010: http://www.1010global.org

Hopefully this FAQ answers all your questions. Or see our websites:
The Age of Stupid (climate change film): /ageofstupid
McLibel (McDonald's libel trial doc): http://www.spannerfilms.net/mclibel
Drowned Out (fight against the Narmada dam doc): http://www.spannerfilms.net/drownedout
10:10 (climate action campaign spawned from Age of Stupid film): http://www.1010uk.org
Spanner Films (production company): http://www.spannerfilms.net
Crowd-Funding (share scheme which raised the cash for Stupid): http://www.ageofstupid.net/node/1253/

Join the mailing list (see next section) or one of our social networking pages below.

Facebook (Age of Stupid): http://www.facebook.com/ageofstupid
Facebook (10:10): http://www.facebook.com/tentenuk
Twitter (Franny): http://twitter.com/frannyarmstrong
Twitter (10:10): http://twitter.com/tentenuk
YouTube channel (for videos): http://www.youtube.com/spannerfilms
Vimeo channel (for higher quality videos): http://vimeo.com/channels/ageofstupid

We do indeed. See our privacy policy, updated May 2018, here: www.spannerfilms.net/privacy_policy

We spent 18 months launching Age of Stupid - including running our live web TV show, Stupid Show, from the Copenhagen climate summit - and then followed that up with our climate campaign, 10:10. From 2013 to 2018 we've been developing our new project SCRUFFY SQUAD (www.scruffysquad.tv), as well as some human babies.

We try our best to keep the info on the website updated, but there's more than 120 countries and only a few of us... The summary list is here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/worldreleases - all upcoming screenings are listed here http://www.ageofstupid.net/screenings/upcoming and then most countries have their own page eg http://www.ageofstupid.net/france or http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa

The Age of Stupid was launched in the UK on 15th March 2009 at the People's Premiere - http://www.ageofstupid.net/premiere . The green-carpet, solar-powered, celeb-tastic event broke the Guinness World Record ( http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/dedications_what_you_need ) for biggest simultaneous film screening (the cinema tent in Leicester Square beamed live by satellite to 61 cinemas round the country), whilst only producing just 1% of the emissions of a normal premiere - http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/the_1_event . Highlights included Gillian Anderson, Will Young and loads of celebs on the green carpet ( http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/on_the_green_carpet ), President Nasheed announcing that the Maldives will go carbon neutral in ten years ( http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/maldives_become_carbon_limbo_world_champions ) and Pete Postlethwaite ambushing Climate Minister Ed Miliband with a giant pledge ( http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/peoples_premiere_not_stupid ). All of which was done on people power - unbelievably, more than 1,000 people worked on the London event and the 61 screenings - as we had no advertising budget. And Stupid was Number 1 at the Box Office (by screen average) too ( http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/15333 ) .
-> Round-up of the premiere, with all links: http://www.ageofstupid.net/premiere
Australia/New Zealand: we headed downunder (yes, we did fly - see below for reasoning) for the joint Australia and NZ premiere on August 19th 2009 - http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/oz_nz_premiere_report . A solar-powered tent in downtown Auckland, linked by satellite to Cate Blanchett's Sydney Theatre, with a live link-up to a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic and celebs aplenty on the green carpets.
-> Round-up of the premiere, with all links: http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/oz_nz_premiere_report
-> Photos from Oz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ageofstupid/sets/72157622103222414/
-> Photos from NZ: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ageofstupid/sets/72157621976494995/
-> Lizzie & Franny on NZ main news: http://vimeo.com/6297151
-> Lizzie on NZ breakfast TV show: http://vimeo.com/6296595
Global: Finally, we launched at the Global Premiere on September 21st from New York, when one million people in 63 countries watched Stupid at the biggest live film event the world has ever seen, we're pretty sure. Celebs arrived by sailing boat, bicycle, rickshaw, electric car and skates. Moby and Thom Yorke from Radiohead played live. Greenpeace linked in live from the Himalayas and Indonesia. Kofi Annan, Dr Pachauri and Ed Miliband spoke live. Full report: http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere

We didn't want to schlep all round the world burning up loads of carbon by launching in a couple of cities per country, one at a time. So we thought we'd do the whole world all at once, with a big live event too, for one night only. Was it a good plan? Time will tell, but the Huffington Post said that The Age of Stupid "represents the future of film, film culture and film distribution and marketing".
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-reiss/ithe-age-of-stupidi-is-th_b_293361.html

The film is currently (Oct/Nov 2009) on release in cinemas in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Turkey, Hungary, France, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden. Check those country pages to see whether it's still playing near you. There are also occasional one-off screenings in other countries, check this page: //www.ageofstupid.net/screenings/upcoming

The DVD is released on November 2nd 2009, except in the countries listed below*. It will be in high street shops in some countries, but easiest (and best for us, as we get a bigger chunk of the cash) if you can buy it direct from our website: http://www.ageofstupid.net/shop . You can get the complete Spanner Films trilogy - Age of Stupid, McLibel and Drowned Out - for 30 quid: http://www.ageofstupid.net/product/spanner_trilogy . That's 2 quid per year as the three darlings took 15 years to make.... bargain.

The Age of Stupid in 31 languages (subtitles, not dubbed - too expensive), plus six hours of extras including the 50-minute Making Of documentary, six short climate films, eight deleted scenes, eight extended interviews, crew commentary, photo gallery and on and on.... see full listing of DVD contents here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/product/the_age_of_stupid_dvd

Arabic, Bengali, Brazillian Portugese, Chinese, (Hanji, and, traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Fasi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hinid, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, (Swahili), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo, Croat, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

It's PAL, region 0 (ie no region restrictions). We are making the NTSC version now and it will be ready in mid November.

See "About the Film" below.

It's available to purchase from our website worldwide, except in these countries, which have their own versions coming soon: USA, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Former Yugoslavia (inc Croatia, Servia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo)

Any problems with your orders, please see section "Merchandise & Shop" below.

You can download or stream our films directly from our website: http://www.spannerfilms.net/download

Great. Please contact the appropriate sales agent, as listed on our Contact page: http://www.spannerfilms.net/contact_us

Most certainly have. Think we're up to 9 parliaments now (including UK, Scotland, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, er... ), plus the UN, the World Bank, the EPA, the Environment Agency, the UNFCCC meeting in Poznan, Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva and the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009.

Sounds great. Please email person2018@ageofstupid.net, if you can make it happen.

Our revolutionary Indie Screenings website - http://www.indiescreenings.net - is now up and running, allowing anyone, anywhere to book the film, put on their very own Stupid screening and- crucially - charge for tickets and keep the profits for their climate campaign or pocket.

You can hold your screening absolutely anywhere you like, as long as it's in the country you booked it for: pubs, schools, churches, museums, bookshops, offices, fields and canal boats have already hosted Stupid screenings. If you want to screen in a cinema it gets a bit trickier, but if you find a cinema willing to go along with your plans, that is fine by us.

There is a multi-language version of the screening DVD, which contains subtitles in 31 languages (Arabic, Bengali, Brazillian Portugese, Chinese, (Hanji, and, traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Fasi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hinid, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, (Swahili), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo, Croat, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese). Sorry we don't have a dubbed version of these languages, as it's too expensive to make.

Sorry, no. The long one took five years to make and it would take another year to make a short one.

Go to the website - www.indiescreenings.net - plug in the details of your screening and it will generate a quote for you. The amount is set according to who you are, where you want to screen, which country they're in, how many people will watch and various other factors. The lowest fee is 1 pound (for a school screening in eg Sierra Leone) and the highest 12,000 pounds (for a multinational corporation screening to 1,000 or more people in eg America).

Quite a few people have said that if we "really cared about the planet", we would give our film away. Here's why we're not going to. Firstly, the £450,000 budget was raised by our "crowd-funding" scheme ( http://www.ageofstupid.net/money ) 228 people invested between £500 and £35,000 of their own money. (Which is incidentally the largest amount any project has ever raised using similar schemes.) We want to repay our investors' belief by returning at least some of their money. (We would have to take £10 million pounds to pay everyone back completely, so that's never going to happen - it's not a profit making exercise.) Secondly, if we can prove that this alternative funding system works, we might persuade other filmmakers (or writers or artists or whatever) to step outside the mainstream media and start making independent films, without advertising execs or corporate suits watering down their content. Thirdly, the film was made by 104 people - including top animators, editors, composers and everything in between - working at minimum wage or just above, some of them for five years. If we can take their wages up from almost nothing to ridiculously low, then they are more likely to give their skills to future low-budget projects. Fourthly, we can only make more films if we make our business viable - clearly we have to pay rent and eat. And if we had to get day jobs, we wouldn't be able to concentrate on our films - or our new distribution models - or the Not Stupid action campaign - or writing this FAQ to answer your questions. And finally, we have put our hearts and souls into the film and feel that it has value: the fact that you'd like to hold a screening kind-of means that you agree. So in the same way that car manufacturers don't give away their cars, publishers don't give away their books and hot dog sellers don't give away their hot dogs, we're not going to give away our film. Having said all that, you can of course find a pirate copy of the film and screen it illegally without a license and we'll probably never find out. And you can steal from charity shops, evade your tax and change your granny's will when she loses her eyesight.
A: I'd like to make a poster for my screening. Can I use the logo/pictures?

ernatively, you can use our automatic poster-maker: http://www.ageofstupid.net/postermaker

Thanks very much for the offer. 68 lovely volunteers all round the world have already translated the film into 34 languages (see list in next question). If your language is not in the list, please contact person2018@ageofstupid.net

Arabic, Bengali, Brazillian Portugese, Chinese, (Hanji, and, traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Fasi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hinid, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, (Swahili), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo, Croat, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

We may get dubbed versions for certain languages, depending on TV sales. But for now, just subtitles for those languages.

See Indie Screenings section above.

Thank you very very much for helping out with the translation. Many more people will see the film because of your hard work. We would like to offer you a free screening as a further thank you for all your efforts. Please contact ben@indiescreenings.net to arrange. (You will still be able to charge for tickets for your screening, even though we won't charge you a license fee.)

Please contact person2018@spannerfilms.net

We employ professional press agents at certain times in certain countries (eg when the DVD is being released). The current ones are listed on: http://www.ageofstupid.net/contact_us If there's nobody listed for your country, please contact press@ageofstupid.net with genuine press queries.

Yes, help yourself: http://www.ageofstupid.net/electronic_press_kit

There's a whole page of resources for journalists at http://www.ageofstupid.net/pr_resources and the press book here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/press-pack

Yes. These images are all free to use if promoting/featuring the film. If not, please contact us for permission. Details of the credit required are by each picture.
- Selection of the best ones: http://www.ageofstupid.net/image/tid/1229
- Key press image (Pete in the archive) at very high res: https://www.ageofstupid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/InterfaceStill_forPrint_Nov14_HDPete01.tiff
- Production photos: http://www.ageofstupid.net/photos.
- People's Premiere: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ageofstupid
- Screengrabs from the film: https://www.ageofstupid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/screenshots.zip
- Devastated images of the world in 2055 (folder which will download and then needs to be unzipped): https://www.ageofstupid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/Devastated%20scenes.zip

Yes. Help yourself and we don't need a credit: http://www.ageofstupid.net/image/tid/1205

Probably. There would be a fee set according to who you are and how you plan to use our material. We also have tonnes of footage around each of the main stories that didn't make it into the film, if you're in need of shots of the Alps or Nigeria or New Orleans devastation. Contact us on press@ageofstupid.net

Yes, as long as it's related to the film and not commercial. If it is commercial or for an unrelated project, contact us on press@ageofstupid.net

Absolutely. No need to ask our permission, just embed the trailer onto your website straight from our Vimeo channel here: http://www.vimeo.com/2991411
Or download a high-res version for screenings here: https://www.ageofstupid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/AoS_trailer_HD.mov

We promise you they all work, as they've been downloaded loads of times. Could you ask a technically-minded friend to help you? Or try on another computer? Or use a different web browser? Sorry we don't have time to talk you through it.

Shedloads: http://www.ageofstupid.net/press-pack

Everything from "The most important film you'll see this year" (News of the World) and "represents the future of film, film culture and film distribution and marketing" (The Huffington Post) to "the second most lame, risibly awful and toe-curlingly emetic movie in British cinematic history after Love Actually" (James Delingpole)
Best quotes: http://www.ageofstupid.net/franny_quotes
Full list of press reviews: http://www.ageofstupid.net/press_reviews
Our Rotten Tomatoes page looks as though we've only had a few reviews, when actually we've had more than 100. Not very helpful, as their raison d'etre is to aggregate press reviews. (Interesting fact, Franny's earlier film McLibel has an almost-impossible 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes: http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/mclibel/ )

As of May 2018, on IMDB we have a rating of 7.1/10 with 3,812 votes (see detail http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/ratings ). If you'd like to cast your vote then please do so at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/
Or see our Public Review page: http://www.ageofstupid.net/public_reviews

Add it to the Public Review page and then add a link to your blog's website from there: http://www.ageofstupid.net/public_reviews

See "Indie Screenings" above.

Yes if it is one of the ones available on the website and it is not for commercial purposes. Just help yourself from our vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/ageofstupid If you want a clip that isn't already available, we'd have to charge you to copy it and screen it, so probably not worth it. But contact us on press@ageofstupid.net if you like.

As above.

Sorry, no. The 85-minute version took five years to make and it would take us another year to make a short one. Having said that, we are vaguely thinking of doing a 10-minute version. If you join our mailing list (by sending an email to addtolist@ageofstupid.net) you'll hear if/when we do that.

Our email list is by far the best way to keep in touch with everything that's happening in the world of Spanner Films. All the detail about how to sign up - and how to unsubscribe - are here: http://www.spannerfilms.net/mailing_list

Any queries with merchandise, please email shop@ageofstupid.net

Please let website@ageofstupid.net know. Thanks very much.

Yeah, we agree. It's on our to-do list, but to be honest there's quite a lot of stuff higher up.

Ditto.

Sounds great, thanks very much. Please list the languages you could help with and your availability over the next three months to: website@ageofstupid.net
Sorry, but we can't afford to pay you, so please only get in touch if you are happy to work voluntarily.

Yes. Any school anywhere in the world can book a screening of the film via the Indie Screenings website.

Yes. We've teamed up with Action Aid to produce a special pack about the film, which was launched in October 2009. More info and to order your copy: http://www.actionaid.org.uk/101751/the_age_of_stupid.html

The UK cinema rating for the film is 12A, which means that no child younger than 12 may see it in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult. More info about the UK's 12A classification: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/c_12.php . There is a version on the DVD where all the swearwords have been bleeped out, so teachers may decide this version is suitable for their classes (though it does still contain harrowing stuff about the destruction of humanity). Up to you.

Sure, go for it. At least 20 students have asked to do this, over the years. Every single one promised to send a copy of the finished thesis, but not a single one followed through, so we are kind-of jaded with helping with these requests. So please just take info from the website.

We literally googled him to see if he was into climate change, and found this article http://www.shropshirestar.com/2007/05/01/movie-star-pete-going-green/ . On Dec 17 2007 at 3.27pm, he said 'Yes'.

See "Basic Info" page: http://www.ageofstupid.net/synopsis_0

Complete credits here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/credits

12A in the UK. Which means children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. But the DVD will be E (Exempt), as it's a documentary. So, as far as we understand it, anybody can watch.

Yes, in the original version there are some swearwords, but we bleeped them out to get the 12A rating. Both versions are on the Indie Screening DVDs, so you can choose which to watch.

Actually all of those issues are mentioned briefly in the animation sections, but clearly we couldn't go into great depth on all the related issues because that would make a 46 hour film that nobody would ever see. There's just too damn many of them, as everything's related to climate change, one way or another. We felt that we choose strong, symbolic examples which the viewers could use to extrapolate. We're sorry if you disagree. And there's always room for more takes on the subject: why don't you make the film you feel we should have made?

Yes. See: http://www.ageofstupid.net/the_science
The Met Office has also officially endorsed the film: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/stupid/index.html . Franny recently put the question "Did we exaggerate the science in Age of Stupid or is it about right?" to Dr Richard Betts, the Head of Climate Impacts, and he replied: "I wouldn't be sat here now if you had exaggerated it. It's all based on science in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. From the IPCC. So, yes, you did a good job."

We thought long and hard about this one, we promise. In the end we decided that the key message is "Our house is on fire, get the fire engines!", rather than "Our house is on fire, but we feel there is hope about whether or not we will put it out". We may be wrong and someone may make a "dream" film at a later date which is more powerful than ours.

Chris Brierley composed most of the original music - http://www.ageofstupid.net/people/chris_brierley . More info, including full music credits at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/music

About fifteen male people. Lots of info and cute production videos here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/animation

John Battsek started off as the Producer of the film but as the years wore on he took over the Executive Producer job and Lizzie Gillett did the day-to-day producing of the film. More about John at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/node/224

The most well-known are McLibel and Drowned Out. See http://www.spannerfilms.net/drownedout http://www.mclibel.com http://www.spannerfilms.net

See the 50 minute Making Of documentary for the full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/02/age-of-stupid-making-of

About five years all up. See the timeline for every detail: http://www.ageofstupid.net/timeline

There are loads of articles and full production notes in our press pack: http://www.ageofstupid.net/press-pack
Also, see Franny's diaries, for the daily thrills and spills: http://www.ageofstupid.net/diary

The production totalled 94 tonnes. Which is equivalent to 8 European people or 4 Americans living for one year. Or 184 patio heaters for one month... Not bad for a film that was shot in six countries over five years and had a crew of 105 people. Then the promotion added another ~50 tonnes, mainly in flights to America and Australia/New Zealand. See calculations here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/carbon_footprint

It's all about numbers at the end of the day. We have to cut global emissions by more than 40% by 2020. If we don't, we're basically toast. As the situation currently stands we are going to utterly fail to cut anywhere near enough. So we need a fast, massive awakening of both the public and the politicians. We made our film - producing 94 tonnes of carbon dioxide - in the hope (there's that word again) that our film may contribute to the awakening in time. If it doesn't, we have sped up the apocalypse by a few days. If it does, we may have helped avert the greatest humanitarian disaster of all time. In which case the 94 tonnes would be well spent.

We don't make people sign a "I will live on one tonne a year" pledge when they come to work for us. But clearly we're all working here because we believe in the aim, not because we want to get rich (we wouldn't have spent five years on minimum wage if we didn't passionately believe in the issues). So, yes, the majority of Team Stupid do not fly for personal reasons, are vegetarian, travel everywhere by bike or public transport, mainly buy second-hand stuff, recycle & compost, wear lots of jumpers rather than turning the heating up, don't have cars and spend every waking hour working on climate change. And Franny managed to get the second Camden council grant to install solar hot-water at her house - the first Camden council grant went to someone else who worked briefly on the film, we found out later. Small world.

See the counter on the front page of the website.

Loads of people have written to us saying they've changed their lives, so anecdotally we can say it's definitely had an impact. Some of the actions inspired by the film can be seen at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/action_stations And some of the emails we received from people after our UK premiere are at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/peoples_premiere_the_world_seems_a_little_different_today

We've already screened at the EU, British, Scottish, Welsh, Swedish, Australian, Canadian and Dutch parliaments, as well as at the UN's climate summit in Poznan in December 2008. Obama's think tank (the Center for American Progress), the World Bank, the Environment Agency, the UN and the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) have also held screenings. Kofi Annan hosted a screening at the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva in June.

a full list of public reviews at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/public_reviews
Or some quotes form famous people at: http://www.ageofstupid.net/famous_people_quotes

A few: http://www.ageofstupid.net/awards

Become actively involved in solving the problem. For anyone producing more than 1 tonne of emissions per year, start by joining 10:10. http://www.1010uk.org

The cunning financing model we invented for this film, which basically allowed us to raise 450,000 UK pounds to make the film, without giving away any of the rights (normally when a TV company or film financer invests in a film they take a proportion of the rights and then control the distribution). We then raised a further ~300k to distribute it. More info, including links to press about it, here: http://www.ageofstupid.net/money

228 people and groups - including a hockey team and a women's health centre. See the funders' page for a selection: http://www.ageofstupid.net/funders
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1. Complete editorial freedom (no commissioners or advertising execs telling us to water down the content). 2. Control of the distribution (we wouldn't be able to do Indie Screenings if the film belonged to the BBC). 3. No outside deadlines. 4. 228-person strong PR team. 5. Loads of moral support.

Sorry we don't have time to meet or speak, but we have put all the documents - including the legal contracts - online so anyone can follow our model: http://www.ageofstupid.net/how_to_crowd_fund_your_film .

As of October 2009, we are selling some of our own shares to fund our Copenhagen plans. Would be fantastic if you could buy one for 10,000 pounds - or half for 5,000. More info: http://www.ageofstupid.net/node/1253/ . This is your last chance to own a slice of the Stupid profits. The deal is that you give us your 10K (or 20K or 30K etc) and we give you a percentage of the income, paid once a year for ten years.
If you're interested in finding out more, go to http://www.ageofstupid.net/buyshare where you can download the Funding Plan with all the details, and the standard Letter of Agreement investors have to fill out. If you want to have a chat about any of this before signing away upwards of ten grand, please drop lizzie@ageofstupid.net an email, and she'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. It's first come first served on this last handful of 'shares' and we were over-subscribed for the earlier funding rounds, so if you're interested, best to get in there quick! (*'shares' is in inverted commas because according to our lawyers, they're not technically shares, but some clever form of loan that's sort of like a share.)

We gratefully receive donations of any amount, either as a one-off or a monthly donation: http://www.ageofstupid.net/money . You can specify whether you want your money to go towards the distribution of the film or the Not Stupid action campaign. Thank you very very much, we couldn't do any of this without our supporters.

Please hold a screening, spread the word (via email, Facebook, Twitter etc - all links in first question above), buy a share or make a donation: http://www.indiescreenings.net

Jobs come up from time to time. Join our mailing list by emailing addtolist@ageofstupid.net and you'll be first to hear about them. Alternatively, keep checking the website. There's not much use sending us your CV randomly, as we never know what to do with them.

See Franny's "Top Ten Tips", written for The Guardian, here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/feb/18/1 or watch the complete 50-minute story of the Making Of Stupid here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/02/age-of-stupid-making-of

We're a wee bit busy working on our own projects. Why not make it yourself? Or find other indie filmmakers here: www.shootingpeople.org

In the past we have run a SWOTS session, our one day course that covers everything you need to know to make a documentary with no cash, crew or commission, but we are too busy to run this course for the foreseeable future. If you'd like to hear about the next one if/when it comes up, please join our mailing list: http://www.spannerfilms.net/mailing_list The info from our last SWOTS course is at: http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=1029

The people who came before us didn't know about climate change and the ones who come after will be powerless to stop it. So it's down to us. Other generations came together to overturn slavery or end apartheid or win the vote for women. There is nothing intrinsically more useless about our generation and there is no doubt about what we have to do. The only question which remains is whether or not we give it a go.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/franny-armstrong/the-age-of-stupid-gives-a_b_281903.html