Timeline
| TO DO | |
| 2050 | Stablise global temperature rise below 2 degrees |
| 2030 | Global carbon emissions cut by 60% (80% for UK) |
| DONE | |
| August 24 2010 | American DVD available in shops. |
| June 1 2009 | Cinema release in Germany complete with whole German version of the website |
| May 25 2009 | An entire night of Spanner Films on the UK's Community Channel |
| May 1 2009 | Age of Stupid free online for the UK election |
| April 16 2009 | USA TV premiere on Discovery |
| April 13 2009 | Lizzie wins Green Trailblazer Award and gives speech at fancy Cannes reception |
| March 12 2009 | New distribution platform Good Screenings launches with ten social action films |
| February 12 2010 | Franny and Lizzie named 21st Century Heroines in Harpers Bazaar magazine |
| January 2010 | Crowd-funders and crew are paid their first percentage of Stupid profits |
| January 2010 | Team Stupid officially disbands. Rhiannon holds the fort. |
| January 2010 | McLibel picked as 14th best film of the decade by Channel Four |
| December 19 2009 | Final Stupid Show broadcast live from Copenhagen, with Tony Juniper, Mark Lynas, President Nasheed and Ed Miliband |
| Dec 14 2009 | BBC broadcast of Age of Stupid. Debate rages afterwards. |
| Dec 10 2009 | First Stupid Show broadcast live from Copenhagen climate summit. |
| Dec 9 2010 | Stupid available for download and streaming from Spanner website |
| Dec 7 2009 | TV stations around the world screen Stupid during Copenhagen (Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium & the UK) |
| Dec 1st 2009 | Stupid is big in Chinese pirate DVD market |
| Nov 20 2009 | Franny beats Jonathan Porritt and Barack Obama to be named Green Personality of the Year |
| Nov 5 2009 | DVD sells out in the UK and a re-run is ordered |
| Nov 3 2009 | Franny rescued by London Mayor Boris Johnson (you couldn't make it up) |
| Nov 3 2009 | Stupid misses out on Best Cinema Doc at prestigious Grierson awards |
| October 27 2009 | Action Aid launch the Age of Stupid schools pack |
| October 2009 | DVD goes on sale |
| October 24 2009 | Indie Screenings launches globally on 350 day of action |
| September 21 - 22 2009 | Global Premiere live from New York to 500+ cinemas in 40+ countries |
| September 1 2009 | 1010 launches at the Tate Modern |
| August 19 2009 | Green carpet simultaneous premiere in Australia and New Zealand |
| August 17 2009 | Australian parliament screening |
| July 27 2009 | Kofi Annan agrees to speak at Global Premiere in New York |
| June 15 2009 | Andrew becomes first Head of Finance to sort out money situation (aka escalating money problem |
| June 14 2009 | NGO Coordinator Jahlia's first day - sent straight off to Germany on a 5am train for a Friends of the Earth meeting |
| May 22 2009 | Indie Screenings launches in the UK - live from RSA with George Monbiot, Nicholas Stern & Richard Betts |
| May 18 2009 | Lizzie on a panel at Cannes Film Festival |
| May 7 2009 | Team Stupid told we get an impressive amount done in a time management class |
| April 27 2009 | Multilingual volunteer team check the translations at the subtitling house |
| April 11 - 12 2009 | Team Stupid strategy retreat in the countryside |
| Mar 22 2009 | Franny vs Ed round 2 at Tricyle Cinema debate. Seeds of 1010 born. |
| Mar 20 - 27 2009 | Release week screenings - post show talks and events all over the UK |
| Mar 20 2009 | Film released in UK cinemas |
| Mar 18 2009 | Screening at European Wind Energy conference with Piers |
| Mar 15 2009 | People's Premiere, Leicester Square & 64 UK cinemas |
| Mar 13 2009 | Win Best Documentary at Birds Eye View |
| Mar 7 2009 | First weekend packing Actions Packs |
| Mar 5 2009 | Screening to Scottish Government |
| Feb 24 2009 | Screening to DECC (UK govt Department of Energy & Climate Change) |
| Feb 20 2009 | UKFC confirm grant of £100,000 for the UK People's Premiere |
| Feb 19 2009 | Age of Stupid gets a 12a rating by the BBFC |
| Feb 16 2009 | Not Stupid campaigning interns start, Nic, Adam, Katie and Lily. |
| Feb 15 2009 | Stupid on Politics show |
| Feb 10 2009 | EU Screening in Brussels |
| Feb 10 2009 | Rhiannon starts as office bod |
| Feb 8 2009 | Filming Lizzie & Franny final interviews for Making Of documentary |
| Jan 25 2009 | Sydney NGO preview screening and brainstorm |
| Jan 20 2009 | Press screening at Soho screening rooms |
| Jan 9 2009 | NGO screening and event in Scotland |
| Jan 5 2009 | Crack new team start: Tom & Leo |
| Jan 4 2009 | 50 translators from around the world volunteer to work on our multi-language DVD |
| Dec 24 2008 | Sign up PR team Unity to run the Not Stupid campaign |
| Dec 17 2008 | Set up Not Stupid company |
| Dec 16 2008 | Long lead press screening |
| Dec 12 2008 | VAT inspection (passed - phew) |
| Dec 10 2008 | Justin Badger starts six-week Making Of edit |
| Dec 9 2008 | Three screenings at UN Climate Summit in Poznan |
| Dec 7 2008 | Sign up PR team Rogers & Cowan to promote the film |
| Dec 5 2008 | Sign on dotted line with international sales agent, Celluloid Dreams |
| Dec 2 2008 | Bad news: we didn't get picked for Sundance Film Festival |
| Nov 26 2008 | Gala fundraiser for Not Stupid campaign hosted by Gillian Anderson. Biggest ever donation of £100kfrom one person. |
| Nov 25 2008 | Sign up Greenpeace as key partner NGO |
| Nov 24 2008 | European launch of the film at IDFA a success |
| Nov 22 2008 | Lizzie returns |
| Nov 15 2008 | Sign up Daniel as NGO liason and indie screening co-ordinator |
| Nov 11 2008 | Film wins prestigious Grierson award |
| Nov 2008 | Sign up Action Aid to produce and distribute Stupid Schools Pack |
| Oct 2008 | Edit trailer |
| Oct 30 2008 | Final shares in the film go on sale (£5,000 minimum) |
| Oct 21 2008 | Launch new website created by the brilliance that is Torchbox |
| Oct 16 2008 | Sign on dotted line with UK theatrical distributor, DogWoof in unprecedented deal |
| Oct 3 2008 | Obtain certificate of Britishness & apply fat tax refund from Government |
| Sept 22 2008 | Screening for distributors and surprise special guest Gillian Anderson |
| Sept 12 2008 | Lizzie moves back home to New Zealand (temporarily) |
| Sept 5 2008 | Apply for Britishness certificate from UK Film Council |
| Sept 4 2008 | Special private screening co-hosted by OneClimate for 170 NGO reps to work out how best to team up when film is released and Ken Livingstone came |
| Sept 4 2008 | Clare Hardwick onboard as Head of Admin. |
| Aug 4 2008 | Move into new office in Camden |
| Aug 1 2008 | McLibelpicked in BFI's season of 'Ten Documentaries That Changed The World' |
| Aug 2008 | Finishing licensing all music & archive |
| Aug 2008 | Mend sick Avid (editing computer) |
| July 21 2008 | Screen the film in British Houses of Parliament |
| July 17 2008 | Agree items for AOS merchandising line - all products help you consume less |
| July 2008 | Meet various international sales agents to make deal |
| June 24-26 2008 | Lizzie & Franny try to sell the film at the Sunny Side of the Doc film market in France |
| June 2008 | Make French version |
| June 2 2008 | BBC big cheese loves the film and says it should be shown in primetime slot |
| May 24 2008 | Investors & crew preview screening - with lots of crying |
| May 21 2008 | Frantic final days of post-production |
| May 14 2008 | Franny & Perry grade the film (fix the colour in every shot) |
| May 12 2008 | Lizzie records extra voiceover with Piers & Lisa in Cornwall |
| May 3 2008 | Franny, Chris & Paul mix orchestral tracks in Coventry |
| May 1 2008 | Voiceover recording day including brilliant performance by 9 year old Ucci (problems with capitalism animation) |
| April 18 2008 | Pete Postlethwaite records extra voiceover |
| April 11 2008 | Work-in-progress screening to Transition Towns national conference |
| April 2008 | Legal checks |
| April 31 2008 | Animators deliver final versions to The Farm |
| April - May 2008 | Intensive 2 months of post-production at The Farm |
| Jan - May 2008 | Weekly focus group screenings at Franny's |
| Mar 13 2008 | Interview with carbon rationing expert Mayer Hillman |
| Mar 13 2008 | Franny and Lizzie show clips of The Age of Stupid at Birds Eye View Festival |
| Mar 05 2008 | Sunny Side preview screening & explaining to French producers how to raise £350K |
| Feb 26 2008 | Funding event in Second Life and on One Climate Island |
| Feb 16 2008 | On the telly! |
| Feb 13 2008 | 3rd and final funding mission begins |
| Feb 12 2008 | Recorded Orchestra at Devas Recording Studio |
| Jan 24 2008 | Film Pete Postlethwaite as the star in our film |
| Jan 23 2008 | 24 hours to transform a carpet warehouse in Neasden into a global archive in 2055 |
| Jan 21 2008 | Banksey agrees to lend us a print for the drama shoot |
| Jan 15 2008 | Find location and crew for drama shoot |
| Jan 3 2007 | Yet more animators signed up |
| Dec 21 2007 | Sign up script writer |
| Dec 18 2007 | Crew screening for final animation check |
| Dec 17 2007 | Cast A-list actor, ie Pete Postlethwaite |
| Dec 3 2007 | Film Jeremy Hardy Comedy gig |
| Nov 28 2007 | Film skinny refugees in Green Screen studio for devastated future shots |
| Nov 15 2007 | Screening of work in progress at Be The Change Festival |
| Nov 11 2007 | Sheffield Festival screening of work in progress. |
| Nov 6 2007 | Film stand-in Old Man drama for Sheffield screening. |
| Nov 6 2007 | Lizzie & Martyn sign up 3 more After Effects animators. |
| Oct 27 - Nov 1 | Franny banished to caravan by the sea to write the script. |
| Oct 29 2007 | Film junk in Camden canal for Martyn's devastated London shot. |
| Oct 24 2007 | Meet George Marshall (expert on climate denial) for advice on characterisation. |
| Sept 25 2007 | Peter Hill (brother of Editor David) signed up to make graphic explaining formation of oil. |
| Oct 16 2007 | Film George Monbiot interview. |
| Oct 13 2007 | Film Mark Lynas giving Schumacher lecture. |
| Oct 5 2007 | Panic as animators keep pulling out (can't work at our low rates). Try and sign up more. |
| Sept 15 2007 | Sign up Dan Haskett to animate section on wasting energy. |
| Sept 22 2007 | Martyn (animation director) designs powerful devastated 2055 images. |
| Sept 19 2007 | Beth & Paul start clearing archive. Good news - we can use Dinosaurs shot. |
| Sept 15 2007 | Screen very rough version to see if new idea with Old Man in the future works. It does! |
| Sept 8-14 2007 | Re-write, edit, and shoot film with Franny's dad as Old Man in the future |
| Sept 8 2007 | Test Screening at the Curzon Cinema Soho is disastrous |
| Sept 7 2007 | Franny does 24 hour edit - the Avid breaks |
| Sept 6 2007 | Casting of child actors 3 |
| Aug 29 2007 | Animation begins at Passion Pictures Studio in Soho |
| Aug 28 2007 | 1st orchestral score from Chris Brierley |
| Aug 23 2007 | Sign up animators Leo Murray and John Munro |
| Aug 21 2007 | BFI screens McLibel as part of its '10 documentaries that shook the world' series |
| Aug 21 2007 | 1st animation style tests from Martyn |
| Aug 12 2007 | Beth Stratford starts massive archive search |
| Aug 10 2007 | First casting session with child actors |
| Aug 6 2007 | Martyn Pick signed up as Animation Director |
| July - Sept 2007 | Edit 7 (9 weeks) |
| July 4 2007 | BBC agree to fantastic archive deal |
| June 25 2007 | Launch new website |
| June 11 2007 | Last day doc filming. Piers's windfarm application rejected |
| May 26-28 2007 | Film interviews with Eric Hobsbawn & Jeremy Leggett at Hay Festival |
| May 21-25 2007 | Take apart and rebuild Avid |
| May 2007 | Filming: Cornwall (4 days). Interviews, home life, Piers at windfarm |
| May 2007 | Script writing (3 weeks): Franny, Emily , David & Mark |
| April - May 2007 | Edit 6 (3 weeks) |
| April 2007 | Torchbox onboard as web designers |
| April 18 2007 | Emily James onboard as Writer |
| April 12 2007 | Bruce Goodison onboard as Future Archive Director |
| March 2007 | Filming: Cornwall (3 days). Home turbine going up |
| March 2007 | Rough cut test screenings for friends and funders |
| March 7 2007 | Make deal with The Farm to do all post-production at super-discount rate |
| Feb 2007 | Edit 5 (4 weeks) |
| Jan 20 2007 | Baked Alaska on Al Jazeera |
| Jan - Feb 2007 | Filming: Nigeria & India (22 days). Layefa's college interview, Jeh's airline growing |
| Jan 2007 | Edit 4 (1 week) |
| Dec 2006 | Filming: New Orleans (16 days). Jazz gig, oil rig & Al's camp. |
| Nov 11 2006 | First test screening at PAL Media Lab |
| Nov 8 2006 | Lizzie buys Blackberry |
| Sept - Nov 2006 | Edit 3 (8 weeks) |
| Sept 2006 | Filming: Chamonix (8 days) Aerials of the Alps, Fernand & windfarm family on glacier |
| Sept 1 2006 | Filming: Iraqi Border |
| Aug 30 2006 | First aerial filming with Jordanian military over Amman, Jordan |
| Aug 24 2006 | Sponsor-an-Iraqi kid to go to school programme launched and 131 kids in school as a result |
| Aug 2006 | Filming: Jordan (32 days) Find 6th & final characters: Jamila & Adnan Bayyoud |
| July 2006 | Research & writing week with Mark Lynas |
| July 2006 | Filming: Wales (1 Day) Windfarm exhibition |
| June 12 2006 | Sign up 5th character - paleontologist and hero of Katrina, Alvin DuVernay |
| June 2006 | Filming, New Orleans (14 days): Devasatated city, searching for oil industry person |
| May 2006 | Sign up Bindmans as lawyers |
| May 2006 | Filming: Chamonix (1 Day). Fernand on 20km bike protest in the rain |
| May 2006 | Filming, Chamonix (3 days). Attempt aerial shots but weather too bad. |
| April 17 2006 | Sign up 4th character. Nigerian wannabe medical student Layefa Malemi |
| April 2006 | Filming, Nigeria (17 days). Niger Delta devastation and searching for strong woman |
| March 2006 | Edit 2 (2 weeks) |
| March 6 2006 | Chinese version of McLibel released |
| March 2006 | Filming: Cornwall (2 days). Carbon audit & collective farming meeting |
| Feb 2006 | Filming: Chamonix (14 days) Fernand skiing & hiking, timelapse, cars. |
| Feb 17 2006 | McLibel screened in select UK cinemas and beats George Clooney in reviews |
| Feb 9 2006 | Launch Funding Stage 2 in Soho. Raise £75k on the night |
| Feb 8 2006 | FSA Approval from lawyers for our Stage 2 Funding Plan |
| Feb 2 2006 | Buy back-protecting chairs with UnLtd Money so we can work longer hours |
| Jan 2006 | Edit 1 (1 week): Trailer for funders |
| Jan 2006 | Filming: Cornwall |
| Dec 25 2005 | Filming: Cornwall (1 Day). Christmas Day with the Guy Family |
| Dec 2005 | Filming: Chamonix (19 days) Fernand & great-grandchildren. Melting snow & glaciers. |
| Dec 2005 | Sign up 4th character, 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand |
| Dec 2005 | Decide to swop Francesco for a mountain guide |
| Nov 15 2005 | Filming: Bedford (1 Day). Windfarm parish council meeting |
Nov 13 2005 | Sign up David Hill as editor |
| Nov 13 2005 | Set up Timelapse shot in Morzine, Yvan on board as cameraman |
| Nov 7 2005 | Filming: Bedford (1 Day). Windfarm public meeting |
| Nov 1 2005 | Filming: Beijing (1 Day). Chinese crew film Francesco's speech to UN |
| Nov 2005 | Secure UnLtd grant of £20K |
| Oct 2005 | Filming: Bedford (2 days) Windfarm protest |
| Oct 2005 | Filming: Singapore & India (14 days). Launch of Indian airline |
| Oct 2005 | Drowned Out up for Best British Documentary at BIFAs (didn't win) |
| Oct 2005 | Sign up Piers & Lisa Guy as 3rd characters |
| Oct 2005 | Decide on windfarms as third story |
| Oct 2005 | Buy new Avid edit system |
| Sept 2005 | Filming: Madrid (2 days). Francesco in heatwave |
| Sept 15 2005 | Filming: The Alps (4 days). Francesco on the melting glaciers |
| Aug 30 2005 | McLibel DVD in American shops |
| Aug 2005 | Filming: India. 6 days waiting for interview with Jeh |
| Aug 2005 | Filming: India (14 days) Find second character: Jeh |
| Aug 12 2005 | Franny buys a Blackberry |
| Late July 2005 | Andy Depledge throws massive book at the avid after months of wrestling with N |
| July 2005 | First Animation meeting at Passion |
| July 1 2005 | Filming: The Alps (2 days). Wedding of Francesco's Daughter |
| June 25 2005 | Sold 100th Share in first Funding Round |
| June 17 2005 | Filming: The Alps (6 days) with first character, Francesco Frangialli, local Mayor |
| June 15 2005 | Filming: Paris Air Show (2 days). No luck finding Indian airlines man |
| June 5 2005 | McLibel screened on BBC and gets one million viewers |
| June 2005 | McLibel opens in US cinemas |
| June 14 2005 | Buy High Definition camera (Sony Z1) |
| June 11 2005 | Decide on Indian low cost airline start-up as story 1 |
| May 18 2005 | Move office out of Franny's house into her Dad's flat. (Is this progress?) |
| April 15 2005 | McLibel screened on BBC4 |
| April 2005 | McLibel DVD released in the UK |
| Feb 15 2005 | The McLibel 2 win in Europe after 15 years of fighting McDonalds |
| Jan - April 2005 | Re-edit McLibel for BBC2 and cinema |
| Dec 14 2004 | Launch of crowd-funding model at first fundraising event. Raise £35K |
| Dec 12 2004 | Incorporate Company. Set up Bank Account |
| Dec 1 2004 | Drowned Out nominated for Best British Documentary at BIFAs (doesn't win) |
| Nov 18 2004 | Think up Funding Plan |
| Sept 27 2004 | Drowned Out on TV in USA |
| Sept 2004 | Lizzie Gillett onboard as Producer |
| Sept 2004 | McLibel 2's hearing at the European Court of Human Rights |
| July 15 2004 | Drowned Out DVD released |
| May 2004 | Sign up John Battsek as Producer |
| Feb 2004 | First SWOTS course |
| Jan 21st 2004 | Drowned Out on telly in India |
| Nov 2003 | Franny does speaking tour of America |
| Sept 2003 | Drowned Out broadcast on PBS in America |
| Aug 2003 | Film Drowned Out update in India for PBS broadcast |
| August 2002 | Drowned Out premiere at Curzon in Soho |
| 2002 - 2003 | Finish Drowned Out and The Dammed |
| July 2002 | Think of idea for The Age of Stupid (originally called Crude) |
