Twilight for the Age of Stupid

Movie stars, directors, mayors and provincial politicians all joined a great turnout last night for the Vancouver premiere of “The Age of Stupid” which we hosted with the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Stars from Twilight, and other productions stayed on with us mortals after the film to put the BC Energy Minister and Opposition Environment Critic on a hotseat about getting a serious clean energy transition going to end the “Age of Stupid.”

Canwest has a photo gallery up of actors like Daniel Cudmore from Twilight, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and others signing messages to Prime Minister Harper.

We were also happy to host Jim Hoggan launching his new book Climate Cover-Up.

From Canwest “Global warming film draws luminaries“:

Daniel Cudmore, 28, who plays the vampire Felix in the Twilight New Moon and Eclipse movies, hopes The Age of Stupid will open people’s eyes to climate change.

“In Canada we’re behind the times and it’s alarming,” Cudmore said. “You need hard facts to shake people out of their coma.”

Cudmore, whose next movie, New Moon, comes out on Nov. 20, said young people have a particular role to play in speaking out about global warming.

“I think young people fear they won’t be heard, but that’s totally false. We’ve got a strong voice.”

… The drama-documentary-animation hybrid film is the latest from Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel, and stars the Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in 2055. As the man watches footage from 2008 he asks why people didn’t act to stop climate change before it was too late.

“I think that’s an incredibly important question to ask ourselves,” said Tzeporah Berman, executive director of PowerUP Canada. “Canada is one of the top 10 global warming polluters and that’s true both per capita and in absolute emissions. We need laws, not new lightbulbs.”