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= all our TV, local screenings & cinema viewers added up. Some accurate - eg TV companies' official figures - and lots guesstimates - eg punters turning up to pub screening in Krakow. more »

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The Top 20 Things We Ever Did

#1 Global Premiere World's biggest live film event beamed Kofi Annan and Thom Yorke to a million viewers in 63 countries.	#2 10:10 Stupid-spawned campaign inspiring everyone to cut their emissions by 10% in a year - now in 40+ countries.
#3 Stupid Show Our daily web TV programme, live from 2009's Copenhagen climate summit, attempted to make sense of humankind's most important get together.	#4 Guinness World Record Stupid beat Star Wars - yup, Star Wars - by premiering in 62 UK cinemas at the same time, linked by satellite.
#5 First carbon neutral country Eco-hero the President of the Maldives announced groundbreaking policy at Stupid's UK premiere.	#6 Indie Screenings 1400 local Stupid screenings in six months = "Revolutionising film distribution since 2009".
#7 Emissions = 1% Both the UK premiere and the production of Stupid produced 1% of the emissions you'd have thought they would.	#8 Crowd Funding 620+ ordinary people invested £450,000 to produce our Stupid film and the same again to distribute it. Biggest ever crowd-sourced pot of cash.
#9 Cinema Jalsindhi Bedsheet + generator + long hike = Drowned Out villagers watch their first ever movie, starring themselves.	#10 Junk food law After McLibel judge says McDonald's adverts "exploit children", the UK government bans junk food ads on kids' TV.
#11 Box Office No 1 Stupid beats Julia Roberts and Lesbian Vampire Killers to hit the top of the charts (by screen average) in its opening week.	#12 UK government joins 10:10 Cameron commits entire Government estate to 10% cut in a year. Equivalent to 200,000 cars off the road.
#13 "I used to hate the invaders" Spanner supporters paid for 131 Iraqi refugee kids to return to school.	#14 Recycling a 747 10:10 bought a plane, as you do, and squashed it into the unfashionable fashion item of the year.
#15 Ten Docs Changed the World McLibel one of only two UK films (the other no-less than Michael Buerk's original Ethiopia report which led to Live Aid) picked for the BFI's series.	#16 100% Rotten Tomatoes World's biggest movie review aggregator proclaims McLibel a perfect film.
#17 "A complete rewrite of UK energy policy" Climate Minister Ed Miliband changes coal law after Pete P threatens to give his OBE back to the Queen.	#18 Ken Loach directs McLibel drama Britain's top gritty and realistic movie director joins Spanner's voluntary crew.
#19 Last two coats 12,000+ delegates & media bods from 193 countries argued about climate change for two weeks in Copenhagen. And the last to leave?	#20 Rescued by Boris London's Mayor swooped up on his bike as Stupid's director Franny was being mugged by a girlgang. Impossibly unlikely but true.

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