Franny Armstrong
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Franny Armstrong 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: T
Armstrong at Chatham House in 2013
McLibel case
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McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris EWHC 366, known as "the McLibel case", was an English lawsuit for libel filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Mo
Franny Armstrong
…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…
"What's wrong with McDonald's: everything they don't want you to know", the cover of the leaflet at the centre of the libel case
Keir Starmer provided significant pro bono assistance during the case
An anti-McDonald's leafleting campaign in front of the McDonald's restaurant in Leicester Square, London, during the European Social Forum season, 16 October 2004