Franny Armstrong

Armstrong at Chatham House in 2013

Franny Armstrong (born 3 February 1972)[1][2] is a British documentary film director working for her own company, Spanner Films, and a former drummer with indie pop group The Band of Holy Joy. She is best known for three films: The Age of Stupid, a reflection from 2055 about climate change, McLibel, about the McDonald's court case and Drowned Out, following the fight against the Narmada Dam Project.

Armstrong pioneered the use of crowdfunding for independent films and developed an innovative form of film distribution known as Indie Screenings.[3] Her most recent project is the carbon reduction campaign 10:10 which she founded in the UK in September 2009, and which is now active in more than 50 countries. On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, she was named as one of The Guardian newspaper's "Top 100 Women", in a list which included Aung San Suu Kyi, Gareth Peirce, Doris Lessing, Arundhati Roy and Oprah Winfrey.[4] Her father is the television producer Peter Armstrong.[5]

  1. ^ "My 5th Crude Birthday". AgeOfStupid.net. 3 February 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  2. ^ "New Statesman interview". New Statesman. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  3. ^ "Indie Screenings". Archived from the original on 26 September 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Top 100 Women". The Guardian. London. 14 April 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  5. ^ "Peter Armstrong / Anuradha Vittachi | Spanner Films". Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.