The Age of Stupid

By Alessio Sciurpa

Fifty years in the future, a senior archivist who lives alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

On the eve of the film world premiere in England of "The Age of stupid" and after the presentation in London on March 15, are held in a completely solar powered site, could not devote a few lines to what is about to emerge, as the best ecological character film of all time, at least in expectation, to match and surpass the success of "An Inconvenient truth" which earned the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 to Al Gore.
The ingredients are all there, the kind in the balance between fiction, documentary and animation, the story that touches the daily experiential through the stories of six characters whose lives are affected for better or for worse by global warming, the narrator Pete Postlethwaite ( "The Duelists" by Ridley Scott, "Hamlet" by Franco Zeffirelli, "The last of the Mohican," "Alien," "In the name of the Father," "Amistad" by Steven Spielberg ) who plays the elderly archivist, through whose eyes and behind a technological interface, witnessing the exaltation of human stupidity.

The film tells three stories also interesting:

- The low impact production: according to official site, in three years the 105 members of the crew delivered 94,270 kg of carbon dioxide, that are the foot print of 8 Brithis in 1 year.

- That the completion of the film through the “crowdfunding ", the model of collective fund raising that is the collection of money among an audience of supporters, for the support of important initiatives. The budget of 450,000 pounds of film was collected by selling "shares" of the film to 250 investors and 105 members of the crew team.

- The "NOT STUPID" campaign, which should start after the release of the film and we will certainly speak about.

Stay tuned.