Basic Info
SYNOPSIS
'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?
FORMAT & LENGTH
Drama-documentary-animation.
92m25s. HD.
BRITISH BOARD OF FILM CLASSIFICATION RATING 
SUBJECT
Climate change, oil, war, politics, consumerism and human stupidity
STARRING
Pete Postlethwaite (drama)
Fernand Pareau, 82-year old French mountain guide (documentary)
Jeh Wadia, starting a low-cost airline in India (documentary)
Alvin DuVernay, Shell oil man who rescued 100 people after Hurricane Katrina (documentary)
Layefa Malemi, living in Shell’s most profitable oil region in Nigeria (documentary)
Jamila and Adnan Bayyoud, two Iraqi refugee kids trying to find their brother (documentary)
Piers Guy, a windfarm developer fighting the anti windfarm lobby in England (documentary)
FILMED ON LOCATION IN
America, UK, India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, The Alps
CREW
Director: Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out)
Producer: Lizzie Gillett
Exec Producer: John Battsek (One Day In September, In The Shadow of the Moon)
Editor: David G Hill (Game Over, McLibel)
Animation Directors: Martyn Pick & Jonathan Hodgson
Composer: Chris Brierley (McLibel, Drowned Out)
Featuring the music of: Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Boots Are Made For Walking
FUNDING & BUDGET
£450,000 raised by “crowd-funding” - selling shares to individuals and groups. Film is therefore completely independent.
KEY DATES
Nov '04 - Fundraising starts
Dec '04 -> May '08 – Production
March 20 '09 - UK cinema release
May '09 – UK Indie Screenings start
Sept 21/22 '09 - Global Premiere
Autumn '09 – UK DVD released
December '09 - Copenhagen UN Climate Summit