News

Grierson win continues perfect record

Date 10th Nov 2008

Prestigious Grierson award takes our competition record to a perfect three out of three.

First trailer released

Date 3rd Nov 2008

Didn't have the cash for a proper sound mix, but it's not such a bad first effort...

Dawn of new distribution era?

Date 12th Oct 2008

Signed fantastic deal with Dogwoof Indie, where they don't take the rights and any cash gets shared. Radical stuff.

Not Stupid starts here

Date 12th Oct 2008

Brainstorming day with climate charities with 10 million members between them. How can they best use the film?

Franny "most innovative or interesting"?

Date 27th Sep 2008

Stupid director nominated for an award. You can vote for her if you like.

X-Files actress Gillian Anderson saw the film last night, at a private preview for distributors in London and said: "I could have watched for another hour - not that I needed to be any more convinced - but because I just didn't want it to end. It was all so powerful and so moving, I was nodding my head all the way through, thinking "Yes, I'm going to start decreasing my flights", "how can I put up a wind turbine". It will certainly change me."

Fundraising screening for destitute villagers - 5000 quid yeah baby

Date 16th Sep 2008

Drowned Out screening

Lizzie leaves us

Date 10th Sep 2008

Stupid Producer Lizzie Gillett moved back home to New Zealand today, recording a last piece-to-camera for the Making Of documentary at Heathrow airport just before she stepped on the plane. Will we survive without her? Does anyone know where the petty cash is kept? Who will pick the teams at Tuesday football? We hope to bring you the answers to these questions in the next few months, if anybody is left standing as an avalanche of admin not-done collapses on top of us.

Stupid makes in into TIME magazine

Date 9th Sep 2008

Perhaps not the greatest number of words, but surely the biggest-profile piece about Stupid yet. TIME magazines goes on about crowd-funding blah blah rewrite.

Ken loves us, our work is done.

Date 4th Sep 2008

Franny's hero Ken Livingstone saw the film at the NGO brainstorming session yesterday and said that "Every single person in the country should be forceable sat down on a chair and made to watch this film". He also volunteered to come to the Premiere and help promote the film wherever he can.