Croydon Purley Way: VUE

15 March 2009

VUE @ Valley Park Leisure Complex

Valley Park Leisure Complex, Hesterman Way, Croydon, CR0 4YA
08712 240 240

Read all about the world record beating People's Premiere here.

Normal film premieres are glitzy and exclusive, with nobody invited except VIPs - but the People's Premiere is different: VIPs, IPs and plain old Ps are all welcome to the world's first INclusive film launch. Featuring synchronised screenings at a staggering 60 different cinemas across the nation. With a solar-powered cinema tent pitched in London's Leicester Square, the People's Premiere is also the planet's first truly green film premiere - no greenwash allowed.


Lucy Bertenshaw

Lucy Bertenshaw

Lucy Bertenshaw is the Transport Campaign Manager at WWF-UK. Lucy is managing the One in Five Challenge – a scheme which is engaging with companies to cut one in five of their business flights.

Lucy started her career managing waterside regeneration projects along Manchester’s rivers and waterways. She then worked in Peru for 4 years, campaigning and managing environmental and social projects with indigenous communities, before returning to the UK last year.

Mark Shearer

Mark Shearer (29) is co-founder of the green networking site www.projectdirt.com currently trialling in south London. Project Dirt is a green online network used by 50+ local environmental projects and 650+ people. The site helps existing green projects/groups share best practice. It also allows helps engage the public, by letting them know what green projects are taking place near them. Following its recent success, Project Dirt is shortly to expand throughout London.

Mark, a chartered surveyor, is a Dorset lad living in Clapham Junction. He ran his own commercial property company for three years before recently committing full time to Project Dirt. He also has a wind turbine company in its inception stages. Why set up Project Dirt? Because he believes in the role grassroots activity can play in taking the green agenda forward ... and the importance of harnessing the talent/ambition of the general public.
Mark Shearer

5.00PM Green carpet arrivals
5.30 Doors open at cinemas, local speakers
5.45 LIVE satellite link-up from green carpet&solar tent
6.00 The Age of Stupid (90 mins)
7.30 LIVE satellite link-up from solar tent: Q&Awith filmmakers and launch of campaign by Pete Postlethwaite
8.00 Local speakers in each venue
8.15 ENDS

Please note all these details are still provisional, as there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, and nobody's ever pulled off something quite like what we're planning before...


For more details on the Leicester Square event, click here