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The Age of Stupid is a 2009 British documentary film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel (1997) and Drowned Out (2002), and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The executive producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September (1999).
The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archival footage from the mid-to-late 2000s and asking: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"
The makers of The Age of Stupid were among the first to use the crowdfunding model and pioneered a new distribution system, Indie Screenings, which allows anyone, anywhere, to hold a screening of the film and keep the profits for themselves.
Original Release
03/20/2009
US Release
07/17/2009
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Pete Postlethwaite | The Archivist |
Jehangir Wadia | Self |
Alvin DuVernay | Self |
Layefa Malini | Self |
Jamila Bayyoud | Self |
Piers Guy | Self |
Lisa Guy | Self |
Fernand Pareau | Self |
Babou Ceesay | Self |
Toyah Frantzen | Dutch |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pete Postlethwaite | The Archivist |
Jehangir Wadia | Self |
Alvin DuVernay | Self |
Layefa Malini | Self |
Jamila Bayyoud | Self |
Piers Guy | Self |
Lisa Guy | Self |
Fernand Pareau | Self |
Babou Ceesay | Self |
Toyah Frantzen | Dutch |
Mark Lynas | Self - Author, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Peter Armstrong | Executive Producer |
John Battsek | Executive Producer |
Bruce Goodison | Executive Producer |
Emily James | Executive Producer |
Andrew Ruhemann | Executive Producer |
Lizzie Gillett | Producer |