Franny Armstrong was born on 3 February 1972 and 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.
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12 Facts About Franny Armstrong
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Franny Armstrong 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.
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Franny Armstrong's first documentary, McLibel, is an account of the McDonald's libel trial, the longest-running court action in English legal history.
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Franny Armstrong developed the "Indie Screenings" distribution system, which lets anyone make a profit by holding screenings of independent films.
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At the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, Franny Armstrong presented a daily web TV show, The Stupid Show, which aimed to "make sense of humankind's most important get-together".
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In March 2014, Franny Armstrong announced her new project Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had longterm relationships and even children with the spies.
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The series is being written by Simon Beaufoy, Alice Nutter, and Franny Armstrong, produced by Spanner Films and executive produced by Tony Garnett.
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Franny Armstrong is Professor of Film at the University of Wolverhampton.
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On 2 November 2009, Franny Armstrong was threatened in the streets of north London by three girls whom she described as looking "like something straight out of central casting".
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Franny Armstrong chased off the attackers and then insisted on escorting Armstrong home.
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Franny Armstrong replied that he wanted to pedestrianise areas across London.
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Franny Armstrong thanked him with a 10:10 badge and a copy of Age of Stupid.
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