Press Reviews

Positive TV | Date 19 February 2009
The Age of Stupid - press launch

Tonight, I (Jeremy) got my first chance to see the film “Age of Stupid” at a private press screening at the Charlotte Street Hotel.

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The Sun | Date 18 February 2009
Oblivious to oblivion

    PREDICTIONS FROM EXTINCTION MOVIE ALREADY HAPPENING IN REAL LIFE THESE pictures are meant to show our planet in the future on the brink of oblivion – but reality has caught up with the apocalyptic images.

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Nature | Date 5 February 2009
Time capsule: Will future generations condemn our sluggish response to climate change?

Hindsight is 20/20, and looking back from a global catastrophe ought to make it sharper still. Small comfort for survivors, like The Age of Stupid's narrator.

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IMOVIZINE - www.vimooz.com | Date 28 January 2009
Who Are You Calling Stupid?

What can you do about global warming? In the year 2055, you can’t do anything at all. In The Age of Stupid, Director Franny Armstrong tells the story of a man living in the future who looks back at “archive footage” from 2007.

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BBC Breakfast | Date 28 January 2009
Pete on BBC Breakfast

  Pete Postlethwaite's very excited about playing King Lear at the Young Vic at the moment, but he still found time to plug Stupid during his very beardy appearance on this morning's BBC Breakfast show...  

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Wales Online | Date 17 January 2009
The world according to George Monbiot

Firebrand journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia, shot at in Brazil and pronounced dead in a Kenyan hospital. So what’s he doing in Mid Wales, wonders Matt Thomas

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Guardian | Date 7 January 2009
Eco soundings - Bottom line

Bottom line

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Citizen Reporter | Date 7 January 2009
Climate Change and The Age of Stupid

He has traveled around the world showing the Al Gore film and speaking about climate change. But Stuart Scott isn’t satisfied with the results and he’s got a new task in his climate change education mission.

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Guardian | Date 27 December 2008
What are we not talking about now that we will be - or should be - in 2009?

The first successful film dramatisation of climate change will open

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Independent Magazine | Date 9 December 2008
Distributor FAQ: Talking to Oli Harbottle of Dogwoof Pictures

Already a successful London-based distribution company, Dogwoof has launched its own DVD store, an independent distribution site called Dogwoof Indie (which allows filmmakers to keep all rights to their film), and Dogwoof TV, a platform that brings independent movies from the web to the television (

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