Exeter: EXETER PICTUREHOUSE

15 March 2009

Exeter Picturehouse @ Bartholomew Street

51 Bartholomew St W, Exeter, Devon, EX4
0871 704 2057

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.


Martin Nicholls, Christian Aid

Martin Nicholls

Martin co-ordinates Christian Aid's development education, fundraising and campaign work across the South West of England.  For over a decade he's worked extensively with the media, local action groups, Church networks and the arts, raising awareness and promoting action on such issues as Poor Country Debt, Trade Justice and the impact of Climate Chaos on the poorest communities in the world.  He has personal experience of the affects of Climate Change in Africa and Latin America and as a singer songwriter has shared these experiences and challenged audiences with his hard-hitting and inspirational roadshows throughout the UK and beyond.

Maurice Spurway & Tim 'Mac' Macartney

Maurice: I have been involved in the environmental movement for 30 years. I am currently the Co-ordinator of Exeter Friends of the Earth, who I have been working with for the past 11 years. I have also jointly founded other groups also, such as Low Carbon Exeter and simpliCITY CirKus (a street theatre group).

Tim 'Mac' Macartney is the CEO and founder of 'Embercombe' a social enterprise located in Devon that seeks to 'inspire committed action towards a truly sustainable world'. He has been coaching and developing leaders from the corporate world since 1984 and is the author of 'Finding Earth. Finding Soul'. Over a period of twenty years Mac has been mentored and coached by Native American 'Medicine' people to learn the cultural and spiritual teachings that once informed the practice of our own British indigenous culture. The values, principles, and wisdom of this tradition inform and guide all aspects of his life and work.

Maurice Spurway

Tim Macartney

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