Events

The first indy screening of The Great European Disater Movie following the BBC broadcast on 1 March, and the Eurosceptic backlash which followed, took place a few weeks later, on 24 March, at Goldsmiths University. A few weeks later, on May 9, aka Europe Day,  director Annalisa Piras was invited to King’s College London, along with Anuja Prashar, […]

“Quanti di voi pensano che l’Europa Unita sia davvero sul punto di implodere?”. Dopo un po’ di brusio, una alla volta, una dozzina di mani si alza. Siamo in un’aula gremita, all’Università Bocconi, e si sono appena riaccese le luci dopo la fine della proiezione di “The Great European Disaster Movie”. Ma facciamo un passo […]

The 11th century Great Hall of Durham Castle, a magical venue made famous by the Harry Potter movies was earlier this week filled by 200 students looking for answers on the future of the European Union. The event, organised by the Durham University Italian Society in collaboration with the Wake Up Europe! campaign, kicked off […]

The 22 January St Antony’s College Oxford screening of The Great European Disaster Movie was attended, among others, by a group of High School students from the Lycee Francais of Madrid as well as High Schools from Oxford (Cherwell School and Magdalen College School). The students were from many countries around the EU, including Spain, France, […]

The small conference room of the London Fabian Society HQ was completely packed for last night’s screening of The Great European Disaster Movie. The audience comprised both long standing members and a few newcomers and a featured a sprinkling of different nationalities: Spanish, Italian and Turkish are those I could identify. After the film I […]

A screening of The Great European Disaster Movie followed by a (badly lit) debate with speakers including Ambassador Maurizio Melani who represented Italy for a time in the development of the European security policy and is ready to talk about Europe at Sea.

The London Globalist hosted its flagship event of the term on Wednesday evening: a screening of “The Great European Disaster Movie”, a 90-minute drama documentary set in the near future which explores the hypothetical consequences of the abolition of the European Union. Aboard a jet in the European skies, an eight-year-old girl finds herself sitting […]

I am an 18-year-old from Sardinia. I have always been intrigued by the great challenge of European integration, transnational democracy, and the integration of people with different values into politically united societies.  On 29th November I attended a screening of The Great European Disaster Movie at Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, made possible by the Wake Up […]

This screening/debate on 28th November was organised by the Rieti branch of RENA, which promotes social innovation and civic engagement, in partnership with the “Literary Cafè – Libreria Moderna”. The film was well received by the 20-strong audience who ranged in age from 22 to 65 and were a mixture of students, civil servants, communications experts and […]

Despite this being a very busy time in the academic year over 40 students took part in our screening of The Great European Disaster Movie on November 25th. The discussion which followed the film went on for slightly over an hour. We had invited three special guests to reflect on the main ideas of the […]

Scroll to the bottom for an English summary of this post Si è tenuto mercoledì 18 novembre, presso una sede dell’Unione Comunale del PD di Caltanissetta, l’incontro-dibattito sul tema: “Unione Europea tra scommessa e realtà”, preceduto dalla proiezione del docufilm “THE GREAT EUROPEAN DISASTER MOVIE” di Annalisa Piras e Bill Emmott. Lo stesso appuntamento è […]

The Great European Disaster Movie had its first public screening in Bratislava on November 17th in the course of a very special event: the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which saw a peaceful transition of power ending 41 years of communist rule in the then Czechoslovakia. Thousands of people, led by the president of the […]

UCL’s European Institute was our host earlier this week, with a screening of The Great European Disaster Movie followed by a heated debate with lots of heartfelt contributions from the audience. I joined a very international panel which included the film’s exec producer (and Wake Up Foundation chair) Bill Emmott, Prof Jan Kubik, director of […]

On Monday, 26 October 2015, the Young European Movement St Andrews held a screening of The Great European Disaster Movie in their second event of the academic year. The film served as a starting point for a lively debate on the European Union. Attendees discussed with great vigour the question of whether the United Kingdom […]

A small but enthusiastic crowd gathered at the local cinema in Manciano, in southern Tuscany, to watch The Great European Disaster Movie and have a debate on the themes raised by the film. According to the organiser Richard Harris: “The discussion was excellent, in part because of the quality of the speakers but also because […]

After launching in Brussels on Sunday our campaign was featured in Warsaw, at a debate organised by the Bronislaw Geremek Foundation for the Polish premiere of the “The Great European Disaster Movie” at the gorgeous Royal Łazienki Theatre in the Old Orangery. Introducing the panel, which also included French journalist Bernard Guetta  and Polish philosopher Marek Cichocki, Tadeusz Zielniewicz, the […]

What better way to announce Wake Up Europe’s arrival to the world than to test our highly critical film on a Brussels audience? The Great European Disaster Movie does not pull any punches on the failure of EU leaders and EU institutions alike. But its underlying message that Europe must be saved grated on British […]

A lively debate on Brexit, EU-US partnership, financial standardisation and TTIP followed a small screening of The Great European Disaster Movie last Friday among the braniacs of the Stanford School of Business. Organiser Marco Mari told us: “I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk about the future of Europe here, with the Stanford special perspective, […]

In the debate that followed the film makers Annalisa Piras and Bill Emmott (pictured above) were joined by three Ca’Foscari professors: Prof Carlo Carraro, (Professore Ordinario di Econometria), Francesca Coin (Ricercatrice di Sociologia Generale) and Prof Fabrizio Marrella  (Professore Associato di Diritto Internazionale). The event was presented by the University’s chancellor Michele Bugliesi. Prof Carraro had in the past […]

“The Great European Disaster Movie” was shown alongside the Oscar winning “Citizenfour”, (based on the Edward Snowden’s revelations), Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing” and other top documentary films at the International Journalism Festival. Director Annalisa Piras and exec producer Bill Emmott took part in the Q&A that followed.

The film was followed by a Q&A with its Italian film director, Annalisa Piras, executive producer Bill Emmott, (the former editor of The Economist) , the Chief Executive of Ipsos MORI Ben Page and the former correspondent in London for Le Monde Marc Roche. The Q&A was hosted by Hugo Dixon (Reuters). The actor and comedian Angus Deayton, who played the part of the Europe […]

In the Q&A which followed director Annalisa Piras discussed the ‘impossible challenge’ of having the film broadcast in eight different European countries and explained her choice to mix hard fact with dystopian fiction. She said: “The attempt was to experiment a little bit with fiction, with graphics, with other elements in trying to make very […]

A screening of the film, Girlfriend in a coma followed by a discussion at Nomisma between, amongst others, Bill and Romano Prodi. Prodi spoke warmly about the importance of the film in this interview with the QN national newspaper group.