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Are enough people waking up to make a difference? Or, maybe the scenario of The Age of Stupid, the film that’s circulating the globe, is a prediction of things to come.

The Student Environmental Awareness Society is starting their Environmental Film Series with the question, “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had a chance?”

The film stars Pete Postlethwaite looks back from a devastated Earth in 2055, wondering who these people were in 2008/9 and what they were thinking to allow such a disaster as global warming.
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Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Next Monday, you can check out The Age of Stupid, an eco docu-drama directed by Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out).

It’s shown as a “first of it’s kind” worldwide event — simulcast live from a solar tent in New York to select theaters in conjunction with UN Climate Week. The film stars Pete Postlethwaite (pictured) as a global archivist in the future who is wondering why the heck people didn’t get the clue about global climate change and stop it when they had a chance. It features present day news clips in an archive that interweaves six dramatic stories of people from around the globe facing different ecological crises. After the film, there’s a live via satellite panel discussion with the director, Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame, Postlethwaite, and field scientists working in the Himalayas and the Indonesian rain forest. Bonus: Thom Yorke of Radiohead ends the show with an acoustic performance of the film’s title track. Mon., Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m., Citrus Park Stadium 20, 7999 Citrus Park Town Center Mall, Tampa, $12.50, visit fathomevents.com for a full list of participating theaters. – Katie Machol

The Age of Stupid is an eco docu-drama directed by Franny Armstrong (Mc Libel, Drowned Out) and will be shown as a “first of it’s kind” worldwide live event- simulcast live from a solar tent in New York to only 440 movie theaters in the nation, in conjunction with UN Climate Week.

The film stars Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects) as a global archivist in the future who is wondering why the heck people didn’t get the clue about global climate change and stop it when we still had a chance. It also interweaves six dramatic stories of people from around the globe facing different ecological crises and features present day news clips that are featured in this future media archive.

See the trailer after the jump:
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