[Graeme]

Age of Stupid film highlights climate change problem $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n 15 March I attended the premiere of what might be one of the most important films ever made: Age of Stupid. Like all who see it, I was deeply moved by this film, which was made over five years on a shoestring budget by Franny Armstrong, an independent British filmmaker.

It features Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist living in a devastated world in 2055, looking back at the time when we realised the gravity of the climate change problem but did little about it.

There are several interweaving real stories - played not by actors, but by real people - a New Orleans flood hero, a Nigerian woman hoping to become a doctor, an 80-year-old French mountain guide, an Iraqi widow whose husband was killed by the Americans, a British wind farm developer. The archivist flicks between their stories, news clips and animations. The stories connect with our lives and what we care about, yet it's set in a world with a deeply flooded London, a Las Vegas overtaken by desert, a Sydney Opera House in flames.