Timeline

TO DO

2050 Stablise global temperature rise below 2 degrees
2030 Global carbon emissions cut by 60% (80% for UK)
Summer 2008 International cinema release
Apr - Dec 2008

Publicity

May 2008

Premiere at Cannes?

April 2008 Finish licensing all archive and music, Legal checks, Post-production at The Farm, and finally Sign, seal and deliver...

 

DONE

 

Mar 20 2008 We've officially entered Cannes.
Mar 18 2008 Interview with carbon rationing expert Mayer Hillman
Mar 13 2008 Franny and Lizzie show clips of The Age of Stupid at Birds Eye View Festival
Mar 05 2008 Sunny Side preview screening & explaining to French producers how to raise £350K
Feb 26 2008 Funding event in Second Life and on One Climate Island
Feb 17 2008 On the telly!
Feb 13 2008 3rd and final funding mission begins
Feb 12 2008 Recorded Orchestra at Devas Recording Studio
Jan 24 2008 Film Pete Postlethwaite as the star in our film
Jan 23 2008 24 hours to transform a carpet warehouse in Neasden into a global archive in 2055
Jan 21 2008 Banksey agrees to lend us a print for the drama shoot
Jan 15 2008 Find location and crew for drama shoot
Jan 3 2007 Yet more animators signed up
Dec 21 2007 Sign up script writer
Dec 18 2007 Crew screening for final animation check
Dec 17 2007 Cast A-list actor
Dec 3 2007 Film Jeremy Hardy Comedy gig
Nov 28 2007 Film skinny refugees in Green Screen studio for devastated future shots
Nov 15 2007 Screening of work in progress at Be The Change Festival
Nov 11 2007 Sheffield Festival screening of work in progress.
Nov 6 2007 Film stand-in Old Man drama for Sheffield screening.
Nov 6 2007 Lizzie & Martyn sign up 3 more After Effects animators.
Oct 27 - Nov 1 Franny banished to caravan by the sea to write the script.
Oct 29 2007 Film junk in Camden canal for Martyn's devastated London shot.
Oct 24 2007 Meet George Marshall (expert on climate denial) for advice on characterisation.
Sept 25 2007 Peter Hill (brother of Editor David) signed up to make graphic explaining formation of oil.
Oct 16 2007 Film George Monbiot interview.
Oct 13 2007 Film Mark Lynas giving Schumacher lecture.
Oct 5 2007 Panic as animators keep pulling out (can't work at our low rates). Try and sign up more.
Sept 15 2007 Sign up Dan Haskett to animate section on wasting energy.
Sept 22 2007 Martyn (animation director) designs powerful devastated 2055 images.
Sept 19 2007 Beth & Paul start clearing archive. Good news - we can use Dinosaurs shot.
Sept 15 2007 Screen very rough version to see if new idea with Old Man in the future works. It does!
Sept 8-14 2007 Re-write, edit, and shoot film with Franny's dad as Old Man in the future
Sept 8 2007
Test Screening at the Curzon Cinema Soho
Sept 7 2007 Franny does 24 hour edit - the Avid breaks
Sept 7 2007
Final filming of Franny and Andy as kids in the future
Sept 6 2007
Casting of Kids 3
Aug 29 2007
Animation begins at Passion Pictures Studio in Soho
Aug 28 2007
1st orchestral score from Chris Brierley
Aug 23 2007 Sign up animators Leo Murray and John Munro
Aug 21 2007 BFI screens McLibel as part of its '10 documentaries that shook the world' series
Aug 21 2007
1st animation style tests from Martyn
Aug 20 2007
Casting of Kids 2
Aug 12 2007
Beth Stratford starts massive archive search
Aug 10 2007 First casting session with child actors
Aug 6 2007 Martyn Pick signed up as Animation Director
July - Sept 07 Edit 7 (9 weeks)
July 4 2007 BBC agree to fantastic archive deal
June 25 2007 Launch website
June 11 2007 Last day doc filming. Piers's windfarm application rejected
June 4 2007 Oscar Wright onboard as storyboard artist
May 26-28 2007 Film interviews with Eric Hobsbawn & Jeremy Leggett at Hay Festival
May 21-25 2007 Take apart and rebuild Avid
May 2007 Filming: Cornwall (4 days). Interviews, home life, Piers at windfarm
May 2007 Script writing (3 weeks): Franny, Emily , David & Mark
April - May 2007 Edit 6 (3 weeks)
April 2007 Torchbox onboard as web designers
April 18 2007 Emily James onboard as Writer
April 12 2007 Bruce Goodison onboard as Future Archive Director
March 2007 Filming: Cornwall (3 days). Home turbine going up
March 29 2007 Daniel Cross onboard to clear famous pop songs
March 2007 Rough cut test screenings for friends and funders
March 7 2007 Make deal with The Farm to do all post-production at super-discount rate
Feb 2007 Edit 5 (4 weeks)
Jan - Feb 2007 Filming: Nigeria & India (22 days). Layefa's college interview, Jeh's airline growing
Jan 2007 Edit 4 (1 week)
Dec 2006 Filming: New Orleans (16 days). Jazz gig, oil rig & Al's camp.
Nov 11 2006 First test screening at PAL Media Lab
Nov 8 2006 Lizzie buys Blackberry
Sept - Nov 2006 Edit 3 (8 weeks)
Sept 2006 Filming: Chamonix (8 days) Aerials of the Alps, Fernand & windfarm family on glacier
Sept 1 2006 Filming: Iraqi Border
Aug 30 2006 First aerial filming with Jordanian military over Amman, Jordan
Aug 2006 Filming: Jordan (32 days) Find 6th & final characters: Jamila & Adnan Bayyoud
July 2006 Research & writing week with Mark Lynas
July 2006 Filming: Wales (1 Day) Windfarm exhibition
July 22 2006 Iraqi refugee march in Hull - looking for final character to represent Oil War
June 12 2006 Sign up 5th character - paleontologist and hero of Katrina, Alvin DuVernay
June 2006 Filming, New Orleans (14 days): Devasatated city, searching for oil industry person
May 2006 Sign up Bindmans as lawyers
May 2006 Filming: Chamonix (1 Day). Fernand on 20km bike protest in the rain
May 2006 Filming, Chamonix (3 days). Attempt aerial shots but weather too bad.
April 17 2006 Sign up 4th character. Nigerian wannabe medical student Layefa Malemi
April 2006 Filming, Nigeria (17 days). Niger Delta devastation and searching for strong woman
March 2006 Edit 2 (2 weeks)
March 2006 Filming: Cornwall (2 days). Carbon audit & collective farming meeting
Feb 2006 Filming: Chamonix (14 days) Fernand skiing & hiking, timelapse, cars.
Feb 9 2006 Launch Funding Stage 2 in Soho. Raise £75k on the night
Feb 8 2006 FSA Approval from lawyers for our Stage 2 Funding Plan
Feb 2 2006 Buy back-protecting chairs with UnLtd Money so we can work longer hours
Jan 2006 Edit 1 (1 week): Trailer for funders
Jan 2006 Filming: Cornwall
Dec 25 2005 Filming: Cornwall (1 Day). Christmas Day with the Guy Family
Dec 2005 Filming: Chamonix (19 days) Fernand & great-grandchildren. Melting snow & glaciers.
Dec 2005 Sign up 4th character, 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand
Dec 2005 Decide to swop Francesco for a mountain guide
Nov 15 2005 Filming: Bedford (1 Day). Windfarm parish council meeting

Nov 13 2005

Sign up David Hill as editor

Nov 13 2005
Set up Timelapse shot in Morzine, Yvan on board as cameraman
Nov 7 2005 Filming: Bedford (1 Day). Windfarm public meeting
Nov 1 2005 Filming: Beijing (1 Day). Chinese crew film Francesco's speech to UN
Nov 2005 Secure UnLtd grant of £20K
Oct 2005 Filming: Bedford (2 days) Windfarm protest
Oct 2005 Filming: Singapore & India (14 days). Launch of Indian airline
Oct 2005 Sign up Piers & Lisa Guy as 3rd characters
Oct 2005 Decide on windfarms as third story.
Oct 2005 Buy new Avid edit system
Sept 2005 Filming: Madrid (2 days). Francesco in heatwave
Sept 15 2005 Filming: The Alps (4 days). Francesco on the melting glaciers
Aug 2005 Filming: India. 6 days waiting for interview with Jeh
Aug 2005 Filming: India (14 days) Find second character: Jeh
Aug 12 2005 Franny buys a Blackberry
July 2005 First Animation meeting at Passion
July 1 2005 Filming: The Alps (2 days). Wedding of Francesco's Daughter
June 25 2005 Sold 100th Share in first Funding Round
June 17 2005 Filming: The Alps (6 days) with first character, Francesco Frangialli, local Mayor
June 15 2005
Filming: Paris Air Show (2 days). No luck finding Indian airlines man
June 14 2005 Buy High Definition camera (Sony Z1)
June 11 2005
Decide on Indian low cost airline start-up as story 1
May 18 2005 Move office out of Franny's house into her Dad's flat. (Is this progress?)
Jan - April 2005 Re-edit McLibel for BBC2 and cinema
Jan 2005 Sign up Research Team: Maya , James, Sadaf and Charlotte
Dec 14 2004 Fundraising event. Raise £50K
Dec 12 2004 Incorporate Company. Set up Bank Account
Nov 18 2004 Think up Funding Plan
Sept 2004 Lizzie Gillett onboard as Producer
May 2004 Sign up John Battsek as Producer
2002 - 2003 Finish Drowned Out and The Dammed
July 2002 Think of idea for Crude