Bristol Longwell: VUE

15 March 2009

VUE @ Aspects Leisure Park

Aspects Leisure Park, Longwell Green, Bristol, BS15 9LA
08712 240 240

Read all about the world record beating People's Premiere here.

Normal film premieres are glitzy and exclusive, with nobody invited except VIPs - but the People's Premiere is different: VIPs, IPs and plain old Ps are all welcome to the world's first INclusive film launch. Featuring synchronised screenings at a staggering 60 different cinemas across the nation. With a solar-powered cinema tent pitched in London's Leicester Square, the People's Premiere is also the planet's first truly green film premiere - no greenwash allowed.


Ed Pomfret

Ed Pomfret

Ed Pomfret is head of campaigns at the Woodland Trust and has been campaigning on climate change for over a decade. He leads the Woodland Trust's campaigns on climate change, aviation, land use planning and woods under threat from development. He recently led the launch of WoodWatch a new campaign to help people fight threats to woodland in their local communities and has been involved in Stop Climate Chaos since it started. He is passionate about inspiring people to tackle climate change but believes that now is the time for governments across the world to take responsibility and lead us to a new deal at Copenhagen.

Claire Milne and Oliver Rodker

Claire's professional and academic background is in global social justice - previously she worked as the Campaigns and Parliamentary Officer at the World Development Movement - however her current focus is on food. Claire is passionate and committed to help transform people's relationships with food and to challenge the corporate-led globalised food system by creating resilient local food systems.

Claire is working as a consultant for Bristol City Council, exploring how they can contribute to making Bristol's food system resilient and resurrecting the Bristol Food Links network. Claire also coordinates Bristol Food Hub, a social enterprise running education workshops like bicycle-powered smoothie making and sugar free sweets, to ensure food starts to play a positive role in the wellbeing of communities and the global environment.

At a national level, Claire is developing Transition Network's food and farming programme. She is also an Adviser and Assessor to the Big Lottery's Local Food Fund and previously worked in London for Sustain: the Alliance for Better Food and Farming.

Claire's work draws on her Masters in social anthropology of development and Bsc in psychology, along with a lifetime of independent travel – prior to her growing awareness of the climate criminal credentials of air travel!
Claire Milne

5.00PM Green carpet arrivals
5.30 Doors open at cinemas, local speakers
5.45 LIVE satellite link-up from green carpet&solar tent
6.00 The Age of Stupid (90 mins)
7.30 LIVE satellite link-up from solar tent: Q&Awith filmmakers and launch of campaign by Pete Postlethwaite
8.00 Local speakers in each venue
8.15 ENDS

Please note all these details are still provisional, as there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, and nobody's ever pulled off something quite like what we're planning before...

For more details on the Leicester Square event, click here