Safe Climate supports Age of Stupid premiere in Perth

The Safe Climate Coalition played a role in supporting the Perth premiere of the Age of Stupid on August 19.

Here are some of the people who came along to the launch in Perth. The film will be shown at Hoyts cinemas for the next week only - see below and then will be shown in other cinemas and at more indy events after that. Safe Climate will definitely organise our own screening in the future - stay tuned for more details.

Pictured are some of the people who enjoyed the Perth screening on August 19.

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director
Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer
John Battsek (One Day In September).

Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? It was released in UK cinemas on 20 March 2009, and will be released in Australia this week. (More info below.)

Below are session times for screenings at Hoyts cinemas in WA. The premiere on Wednesday ($25) fill feature a satellite link-up to the Sydney premiere, complete with a "green-carpet" opening and question-and-answer session with film-makers and actors afterwards. The other screenings (regular prices) are also included.

Maybe you could get a group together for a great chance to provoke some thought and discussion about emergency action on climate change, the issue of our times.

Hoyts Carousel

1382 Albany Hwy
Cannington, WA 6107
Westfield Shopping Centre

Premiere:
Wed 19 Aug 4:30PM

Other sessions:
Thu 20 Aug 6:30PM
Fri 21 Aug 6:30PM
Sat 22 Aug 6:30PM
Sun 23 Aug 6:30PM
Mon 24 Aug 6:30PM
Tue 25 Aug 6:30PM
Wed 26 Aug 6:30PM

Hoyts Garden City

Almondbury Rd
Booragoon, WA 6154

Thu 20 Aug 8:45PM
Fri 21 Aug 8:45PM
Sat 22 Aug 8:45PM
Sun 23 Aug 8:45PM
Mon 24 Aug 8:45PM
Tue 25 Aug 8:45PM
Wed 26 Aug 8:45PM

Hoyts Southlands

Burrendah Boulevard
Willetton, WA 6155

Thu 20 Aug 6:30PM

Director

Franny Armstrong

Main cast

Pete Postlethwaite, Fernand Pareau, Jeh Wadia, Alvin DuVernay, Layefa Malemi, Jamila and Adnan Bayyoud, Piers Guy

Synopsis

'The Age Of Stupid’ is the new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon).

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we’ve achieved. He pulls together clips of “archive” news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human stories:



- Alvin DuVernay, is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the first “major climate change events”.

- Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and gets a million Indians flying.

- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds.

- Jamila Bayyoud, aged 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of Jordan after her home was destroyed - and father killed - during the US-led invasion of 2003. She’s trying to help her elder brother make it across the border to safety.

- Piers Guy is a windfarm developer from Cornwall fighting the NIMBYs of Middle England.

- 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand Pareau has witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 metres.



This is a must-see film for everyone.



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Consumer Advice:

Mature themes and coarse language

Genre:

Documentary, Drama

Running Time:

89 minutes

Release Date:

19 August 2009