Age of Stupid Global Premiere in Ny during Climate Work

Why didn’t we save ourselves when we had the chance? This is the question the soon-to-be released film, Age of Stupid, poses to us. The film takes place in a future where our world has been ravaged by climate change due to a business-as-usual approach to this growing global threat.

The good news is that this doesn’t need to happen. For now, our fate of being remembered as the Age of Stupid is still within our grasp to reverse. With your help, we can get the word out about climate change and our ability to help avert disaster.

Be part of our live premiere on September 21st by attending one of the 400 theaters across the country that will broadcast the New York City premiere live for this exciting ONE NIGHT ONLY event. For more details on the premiere, how to get complimentary tickets, celebrity attendees, Koffi Anan’s follow up address and how you can help, please see below.

Don’t let us become the Age of Stupid - This is a film premiere you can’t miss!

Age of Stupid Premiere Information:

Brought to you by Fathom Events, The Age of Stupid will launch in America on September 21st, 2009 from a solar-powered cinema tent in New York LIVE to 115,000 people in 400 movie theatres right across the country.

This One Night Only live event is your only chance to see The Age of Stupid on the big screen and is timed for the day before the UN’s climate meeting on September 22nd, when 80 Heads of State - and therefore the world’s media - will gather in New York. (The event has also just been confirmed as being an official part of the UN’s Climate Week NYC.)

Everyone is invited to go to their local theatre to watch the VIPs arrive in Manhattan by boat, bike, rickshaw, electric car or skateboard, before braving the paparazzi on the green carpet. Following the first US screening of The Age of Stupid, there will be a further 40 minute live event featuring Kofi Annan, Gillian Anderson, Mary Robinson, the film’s director Franny Armstrong, the star of the film Pete Postlethwaite, and other leading thinkers, celebrities and political figures from around the world.

Audiences will hear from scientists working in the Himalayas and Indonesian rain forest via live satellite link and from a group of children speaking from the very room in Copenhagen in which all our futures will be decided at the UN climate summit in December. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke will wrap up the evening with a short acoustic performance.

For more information and a theater schedule visit: http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa

The film starts at: 7:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM CT / 5:30 PM MT / tape delayed 8PM PT

For a taste of what to expect, have a look at the UK launch in March 2009 (http://www.vimeo.com/5234375), which produced only 1% of the emissions of a standard Hollywood event and which broke the Guinness World Record for biggest simultaneous premiere.

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122440801800

How you and your readers can help!

We have a grand total of zero dollars for advertising, so please, please help however you can:

1. Post the Age of Stupid trailer on you blog (http://www.ageofstupid.net/video/trailer) and provide ticket and theater information so you your readers can come out and support the film.

2. Buy tickets to your local cinema for you, your mom, your boyfriend, your boyfriend’s hairdresser and all their friends. Please buy tickets now rather than later.

3. Put together an outing for your school/sports team/church - make an evening of it by arranging a meal before or after the event (after may be better, as you’ll all hopefully be inspired to start discussing how you can get involved in climate actions in your area).

4. Email the e-flyer to all your American friends, asking them to pass it on. (It’s either attached or available on our website).

5. Share the word to any mailing list you are part of.

6. Go onto the US listing page (http://www.ageofstupid.net/usa), look through the locations and then send the details direct to your friends in whichever town/city they’re in. There’s an easy widget on each individual theatre’s page, which lets you send the details without messing around with emails.

7. Go mad on Facebook & Twitter

8. Rate/review the film (if you’ve seen it) on the Fandango website (the US ticket sellers). Seeing loads of enthusiastic reviews makes a really big difference to people who are undecided as to whether or not to go

9. Go along to any climate/enviro/activist meetings happening in your area and give a quick one minute talk about the Stupid launch

10. If you are able to hand out flyers / put up posters in your nearest theatre, please email talanne@ageofstupid.net for instructions

11. We may be able to give your group free complimentary tickets for your local theater if you would like to run a competition, or simply as a thank you for block booking lots of tickets (think 10+). Please contact laurel@ageofstupid.net to discuss this or other ideas you have for promoting the event in your area.