15 March 2009
FACT 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ 0871 704 2063

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.

Frank Kennedy Frank is Regional Campaigns Coordinator for Friends of the Earth in North West England; working on policy and camapigns across Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside from the perspective of Friends of the Earth's global stands on climate change, biodiversity and environmental justice. As part of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition, Friends of the Earth played a leading role in campaigning for the Climate Change Act, which was became law late last year.  We have partner organisations in over 70 countries.Our local group in Liverpool is one of over 200 nationally, 23 of them in the North West. Frank worked as a primary school teacher before becoming a full-time campaigner, has been based in Liverpool since 1990 and, among other things, is a trustee of the Liverpool World Centre and helps run Liverpool Network Theatre group.

Tom Barker Tom Barker is an ecologist at the University of Liverpool and a long time campaigner on issues of sustainability.  In the late 1980s to early 1990s he was co-ordinator of the Alternative Technology Association at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, where he was also editor of Clean Slate.  He is currently associate editor of Fourth World Review.

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