The Age of Stupid
2009, 92 minutes
why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The original plan was to borrow the structure of Steven Soderbergh's movie Traffic, to follow. The Age of Stupid was shot by Franny Armstrong (camera) and producer Lizzie Gillett (sound) over three years in seven countries over. It follows seven documentary characters, British windfarmer Piers Guy, Indian airline boss Jeh Wadia, Nigerian medical student Layefa Malemi, French mountain guide Fernand Pareau, Iraqi refugee kids Jamila & Adnan and New Orleans Shell paleontologists Alvin Duvernay America, UK, India, Nigeria, Iraq, Jordan, The Alps
