[Sosfbay-discuss] Climate Change Movie

[Gerry Gras]

The United Nations Association is having a film festival
right now.  Most of it is at Stanford.

The mission statement:
     http://www.unaff.org/2009/

The schedule:
     http://www.unaff.org/2009/schedule.html

The climate change movie, Sat. 10/24 9:15PM:
     "Age of Stupid"
     http://www.unaff.org/2009/f_age.html

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[from the web page]

It's the year 2055 and runaway climate change has ravaged the planet. 
Pete is the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in 
the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in 
the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that 
intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we've achieved. He 
pulls together clips of "archive" news and documentary from 1950-2008 to 
build a message showing what went wrong and why. The film uses real 
documentary footage to move between six main stories that range from 
Hurricane Katrina to melting Alpine glaciers. This ambitious 
documentary/drama/animation set in the devastated world of the future, 
asks the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had 
the chance?"
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Gerry