Diary

Stirring the Scots

Location Edinburgh Filmhouse | Mood Intrepid | Date 13 January 2009
Hello, my name is Daniel Vockins and I’m Not Stupid's new Campaign Coordinator for the coming year. I’ll be overseeing the premiere, release week and lots of the Not Stupid campaign work in what is almost without doubt the best job in the world.

All Greek to you?

Location | Mood | Date 3 January 2009
Goedendag Bonjour Tugjatjeta Salam Mambo Gamardjoba Ciào Namaskar Zdravstvuyte, Had a nice time off?Good, back to work then. Anybody speak anything other than boring English as their first language and fancy helping us make the 20-language version of Stupid? The plan is to get a mega-subtitled DVD ready for May-ish, when we release the film for anyone anywhere (nearly) to hold their own screening. Obviously the more languages we can manage, the further the film can travel. Then again, it's only possible to fit 20 onto one DVD.

87 days to go

Location | Mood | Date 23 December 2008
Hello, We're very happy to say that the UK cinema release of whatsitcalled has been confirmed for March 20th 2009. Phew, that was hard work. We have eight cinemas signed up so far - bear in mind that Inconvenient Truth started in four, or maybe it was three - but we're hoping to get that up to about twelve. Whether it goes on to 300 screens in week two, or gets dumped in the bin, depends on how many bums we get on seats in week one. (New slogan: get on your arse for climate change.)

Bursting at seams in Poznan

Location COP14, Poznan, Poland | Mood PODNIECONY | Date 9 December 2008
  Last night's screening here at the UN Climate talks was way better than we could've hoped.

All happening in Poland

Location | Mood | Date 9 December 2008
Greetings, Last night's screening here at the UN Climate talks was way better than we could've hoped. The little room we were all set up in got too crowded, so we had to move to a great big hall five minutes before kickoff. Try explaining "we need to change the aspect ratio" and "can you please cut the bass in the back speakers" to one surly Polish technician who doesn't understand a word of English while another refuses to move chairs and a third refuses to turn the lights off.

Poznan 2 - Meet Yvo de Boer

Location | Mood | Date 8 December 2008
Hello Insiders, Hopefully some of you saw Franny live from Poznan on oneclimate last night. Tonight they've got someone arguably more important than her on the show, though surely he can't beat her on words-per-minute. Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate negotiator, is on the show and will be answering questions from viewers online and in Second Life. The show is from 5:30-6:30pm and you can watch it online at:http://www.oneclimate.net/poznan

One final batch of 15

Location | Mood | Date 30 November 2008
Hi Insiders, We're going to be releasing a final round of shares on Monday, but wanted to give you lovely lot the heads up in case any of you fancy owning a little more of the baby.

Top of the Dutch charts

Location | Mood | Date 25 November 2008
Hello from Amsterdam, Having a hilarious time here at the official launch of The Age of Stupid  (don't mention those other small preview screenings you may all have been at). We are the official Number 1 most watched film by the buyers at the market, out of the 450 films on sale here.

Help this Friday and generally

Location | Mood | Date 17 November 2008
Morning list, Anyone fancy lending us a hand? Job descriptions below, all voluntary I'm afraid, as we are totally skint. This is what the Grierson jury said about us, btw: "The out and out winner this year was chosen for the sheer scale of its ambition and the verve of its realization.  On every level, The Age of Stupid is a powerful and unforgettable film that leaves you honour bound to force governments to take action and that the judges recommend everybody must see." Hope all's well,Franny

Newsflash: the spooky head is in the kitchen

Location | Mood | Date 10 November 2008
Very speedy update: Stupid has just won a majorly-prestigious award, a Grierson.Kind of like the Ivor Novello songwriting award, in our little world of documentaries.See pic attached of the spooky head in its new home at the office. So along with "Best Green Doc" and "Film Most Likely to be a Cinema Hit"from Sunny Side (http://www.ageofstupid.net/news/we_won_twice),that's a perfect three out of three awards we've entered so far, oh yeah baby.Not bad for a bunch of amateurs making it up as they go along.