Actress and activist Daryl Hannah is featured in a new hoax ad claiming that Mattel is creating a line of Barbies called MyCelia EcoWarrior Barbies, which are supposedly plastic-free.
Hannah is the face of this fake endorsement in a video released by her where she asserts that “by 2030 all Mattel toys will be plastic-free starting with the iconic Barbie doll.” She continued to claim that “Mattel will support a federal ban on all plastics in kid’s toys and on single-use plastics.”
The “limited edition EcoWarrior Barbies” would have featured “the real world heroes of the environmental struggle,” including Phoebe Plummer, Julia Butterfly Hill, Greta Thunberg, Nemonte Nenquimo and one even named after Hannah.
The dedication to this fake campaign is remarkable, as spoofed press releases from Mattel, fake phone numbers, and a false website were all created.
It is believed that Hannah collaborated with two of The Yes Men,...
Hannah is the face of this fake endorsement in a video released by her where she asserts that “by 2030 all Mattel toys will be plastic-free starting with the iconic Barbie doll.” She continued to claim that “Mattel will support a federal ban on all plastics in kid’s toys and on single-use plastics.”
The “limited edition EcoWarrior Barbies” would have featured “the real world heroes of the environmental struggle,” including Phoebe Plummer, Julia Butterfly Hill, Greta Thunberg, Nemonte Nenquimo and one even named after Hannah.
The dedication to this fake campaign is remarkable, as spoofed press releases from Mattel, fake phone numbers, and a false website were all created.
It is believed that Hannah collaborated with two of The Yes Men,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Comedians and satirists have been thoroughly challenged in the age of Trump, says Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men, the prankster duo who have sent up corporate greed and government injustice since the 90s by impersonating members of elite power structures. “The challenge is how to work with humor in this moment,” he told a packed audience at the Ji.hlava docu fest, admitting he already finds footage from the Yes Men’s new trailer, put together in June, “kind of horrifying.” In the clip, for an as-yet-unnamed film in which he and partner Andy Bichlbaum ironically explore how to build the greatest wall ever, they are seen carefully studying the strengths and weaknesses of the former Berlin Wall, Israel’s “Security Fence” and the Great Wall of China. One sequence shows them making enthusiastic notes about razor wire, then attending a helpful demonstration by a contractor who demonstrates how...
- 10/27/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
This first feature of Kirsten Tan premiered in Sundance ‘17 World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Its provenance is Singapore but it takes place in Thailand. It continued onward to the Hivos Tiger Competition at Iffr (R’dam).
The thrill of interviewing here in Sundance is that you see a film; you have an impression and while it is still fresh you meet the filmmakers without having much time for any research or reflection. And then you get to see them again as “old friends” when you meet again in Rotterdam.
As Kirsten, her producer Weijie Lai and I sat down at the Sundance Co-op on Main Street here in Park City, I really had little idea of where the interview would take us, somewhat analogously to her film in which an architect, disenchanted with life in general, being put aside as “old” in his own highly successful architectural firm and in a stale relationship with his wife,...
The thrill of interviewing here in Sundance is that you see a film; you have an impression and while it is still fresh you meet the filmmakers without having much time for any research or reflection. And then you get to see them again as “old friends” when you meet again in Rotterdam.
As Kirsten, her producer Weijie Lai and I sat down at the Sundance Co-op on Main Street here in Park City, I really had little idea of where the interview would take us, somewhat analogously to her film in which an architect, disenchanted with life in general, being put aside as “old” in his own highly successful architectural firm and in a stale relationship with his wife,...
- 2/7/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Film Congress Marketplace to take place in Los Angeles, USA | Berlin, Germany | Lagos, Nigeria | Teheran, Iran | Cannes, France
Ocean, Life, Water: The 9th Green Me Global Festival for Sustainability is rolling out the red green carpet in Los Angeles, CA October 17th to 23 at the Landmark Regent Theater in Westwood.
An expert jury under the patronage of Ralf Möller will award the greenest movies around the topic Ocean/Life/Water.- More than 20 Films will be screened, 10 green presentations, 5 panel discussions, a Film Workshop for Film Schools and an Award Gala will shine in a green light.
An impressive number of films have been submitted for the Green Me Award 2016.
Under the patronage of Dr. Auma Obama, President Barack Obama’s half-sister, and in cooperation with the actor Ralf Möller, a selected expert jury will award the greenest movies 2016.
The question of how we, humanity, will survive the coming years...
Ocean, Life, Water: The 9th Green Me Global Festival for Sustainability is rolling out the red green carpet in Los Angeles, CA October 17th to 23 at the Landmark Regent Theater in Westwood.
An expert jury under the patronage of Ralf Möller will award the greenest movies around the topic Ocean/Life/Water.- More than 20 Films will be screened, 10 green presentations, 5 panel discussions, a Film Workshop for Film Schools and an Award Gala will shine in a green light.
An impressive number of films have been submitted for the Green Me Award 2016.
Under the patronage of Dr. Auma Obama, President Barack Obama’s half-sister, and in cooperation with the actor Ralf Möller, a selected expert jury will award the greenest movies 2016.
The question of how we, humanity, will survive the coming years...
- 10/7/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Over the last twenty years, culture-jamming hoaxsters “Mike Bonanno" and "Andy Bichlbaum" (their pseudonyms) aka The Yes Men — a duo of activist pranksters and revolutionaries — have hijacked the mainstream media to bring attention to various cases of eco-social importance. Their list of accolades is long and storied. Formed in the early 1990s, and targeting the insidiousness of corporate malfeasance, the Yes Man have punk’d and hoodwinked Haliburton, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, McDonalds, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Shell Oli, Hud, and many, many other corporations and organizations. Generally their agitprop modus operandi is impersonating entities from these corporations and calling their own press conferences, or scamming themselves onto TV and proclaiming a shocking about face in corporate agenda. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009, they falsified a statement by Environment Canada promising to cut carbon emissions by 40% below 1990...
- 6/11/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The Yes Men Are Revolting The Orchard Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Laura Nix, the Yes Men Cast: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonano, Benadette Chandia Kodili, Gitz Crazyboy, Tito Ybarra, Mike Mathieu, Leonid Vlassov Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 6/3/15 Opens: June 12, 2015 Just as you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, you can brint down your enemies with humor rather than with insults. One recent example is Iran’s cartoon contest, awarding prizes for the best cartoons that make fun of Isis. (Don’t bother drawing cartoons of the Prophet, though, as the Tehran regime has only a selective sense [ Read More ]
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- 6/8/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Over at the Creative Capital blog, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men have posted a sober essay about the changes they’ve seen in the documentary funding landscape since 2000, when they received one of the organization’s first grants for their feature, The Yes Men. Two films and 15 years later, the two are still at it — creatively agitating for social change while producing actions and making documentary films. Their latest film, The Yes Men are Revolting, directed with Laura Nix, opens June 12, and it mixes their trademark anarchic political humor with more ruminative passages reflecting on […]...
- 5/27/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Over at the Creative Capital blog, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men have posted a sober essay about the changes they’ve seen in the documentary funding landscape since 2000, when they received one of the organization’s first grants for their feature, The Yes Men. Two films and 15 years later, the two are still at it — creatively agitating for social change while producing actions and making documentary films. Their latest film, The Yes Men are Revolting, directed with Laura Nix, opens June 12, and it mixes their trademark anarchic political humor with more ruminative passages reflecting on […]...
- 5/27/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"To keep going, we've got to be a part of something bigger than ourselves." The Orchard has debuted a trailer for The Yes Men Are Revolting, an autobiographical documentary about the "Yes Men", Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, two "hilarious activists" that tell their own story in this film. As they explain, they have been pulling off corporate pranks for years and now are trying to find new inspiration fighting climate change. Yeah it looks a bit cheesy, but I'm much more interested in the angle of seeing them pull off their hoaxes than anything. If you enjoy activism or stories about passionate people, give this a look. Here's the official trailer for The Yes Men Are Revolting documentary, in high def from Apple: For two decades, the Yes Men have pulled off spectacular media hoaxes to expose corporate crimes. Now, these activists are approaching middle age, struggling to stay...
- 5/8/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The world is upside down, or as David Lynch puts it: "The world is wild at heart and weird on top." The countries that are peace keepers are also the biggest manufacturers of weapons and the most profitable industries are the ones that are destroying this planet. One percent of the population owns more than the other ninety-nine together. Our system is fundamentally unjust. That is a fact and many of today's urgent problems are obliging us to examine the very framework of our society.When you scroll through the programme of this year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival (Hrwff), you cannot but notice that most of the 16 films, except for John Stewart's directing debut Rosewater, a film about the life of the Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, are documentaries. They are bringing us unknown stories from all over the world and they point to issues concerning violations of human rights.
- 3/18/2015
- by Ana Sturm
- MUBI
UK documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, filmed on the frontline in Afghanistan, also wins.
Brazilian drama The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) has picked up the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival’s 17th Panorama Audience Awards.
Anna Muylaert’s film explores barriers of class when the estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, throwing the home into disarray.
UK documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy, won the documentary audience award.
The directors accompanied an Afghan National Army company during a year of frontline duty in Helmand.
During the Berlinale, filmgoers were asked to rate the titles shown in the Panorama section. A total of 31,200 votes were cast and counted.
This year the Panorama presented 52 feature-length films from 38 countries, of which 18 screened in the Panorama Dokumente series.
Winners of the Panorama Audience Award - Fiction Film 2015
Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second...
Brazilian drama The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) has picked up the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival’s 17th Panorama Audience Awards.
Anna Muylaert’s film explores barriers of class when the estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, throwing the home into disarray.
UK documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy, won the documentary audience award.
The directors accompanied an Afghan National Army company during a year of frontline duty in Helmand.
During the Berlinale, filmgoers were asked to rate the titles shown in the Panorama section. A total of 31,200 votes were cast and counted.
This year the Panorama presented 52 feature-length films from 38 countries, of which 18 screened in the Panorama Dokumente series.
Winners of the Panorama Audience Award - Fiction Film 2015
Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second...
- 2/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New films from Hal Hartley, James Franco, Gus Van Sant among lineup.
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
Eighteen features - including seven documentaries - have been selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama programme.
Among the selection are new films from Hal Hartley, Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Jk Youn and The Yes Men.
Hartley concludes his filmic trilogy with Ned Rifle while Justin Kelly’s Gus Van Sant-produced debut I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist in the 1980s.
54: The Director’s Cut
USA
By Mark Christopher
With Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Mark Ruffalo
World premiere
Chorus
Canada
By François Delisle
With Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Pierre Curzi, Geneviève Bujold
European premiere
Der letzte Sommer der Reichen (The Last Summer of the Rich)
Austria
By Peter Kern
With Amira Casar, Nicole Gerdon, Winfried Glatzeder
World premiere
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents)
Switzerland / Germany
By Stina Werenfels...
- 12/16/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Over the last twenty years, culture-jamming hoaxsters “Mike Bonanno" and "Andy Bichlbaum" (their pseudonyms) aka The Yes Men — a duo of activist pranksters and revolutionaries — have hijacked the mainstream media to bring attention to various cases of eco-social importance. Their list of accolades is long and storied. Formed in the early 1990s, and targeting the insidiousness of corporate malfeasance, the Yes Man have punk’d and hoodwinked Haliburton, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, McDonalds, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Shell Oli, Hud, and many, many other corporations and organizations. Generally their agitprop modus operandi is impersonating entities from these corporations and calling their own press conferences, or scamming themselves onto TV and proclaiming a shocking about face in corporate agenda. At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009 they falsified a statement by Environment Canada promising to cut carbon emissions by 40% below 1990...
- 11/28/2014
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Then, again, so are many corporations.When Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno launched their “Survivaballs” into New York’s East River to protest the lack of an effective United Nations climate change policy, they were not surprised when legal action ensued (“Yes, just stay to the left of the machine gun…”). In fact, they have been threatened with law suits dozens of times, although all have been dropped, so far.In this film of the irrepressible hijinks of the two reigning kings of the political prank, The Chamber of Commerce initiated yet another law suit in search of revenge for the […]...
- 11/25/2014
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
The distributor has acquired all North American rights to the comic documentary directed by Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno.
The Yes Men Are Revolting will receive its New York premiere on November 20 as the closing night screening at Doc NYC and received its world premiere in Toronto.
The film marks the third episode in a series of titles by the prankster-activists and trains its sights on global warming and middle-aged activism.
Danielle Digiacomo brokered the deal with Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
The Yes Men Are Revolting will receive its New York premiere on November 20 as the closing night screening at Doc NYC and received its world premiere in Toronto.
The film marks the third episode in a series of titles by the prankster-activists and trains its sights on global warming and middle-aged activism.
Danielle Digiacomo brokered the deal with Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 11/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Orchard has acquired North American rights to The Yes Men Are Revolting, the third installment of the documentary series featuring prankster-activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. This time the Yes Men tackle the issues of global warming and middle-aged activism. The film, directed by Laura Nix along with Bichlbaum & Bonanno, premiered at Toronto and is screening Thursday at Doc NYC. It will be released theatrically and digitally across North America in 2015. Yes Men Are Revolting follows the duo’s The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix The World (2009). The deal was negotiated by Danielle Digiacomo and Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
Cinema Guild has landed all North American rights to About Elly, a mystery from director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). Old college pals reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. One of the women brings along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes...
Cinema Guild has landed all North American rights to About Elly, a mystery from director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). Old college pals reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. One of the women brings along Elly, her daughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes...
- 11/19/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
For the last two decades, The Yes Men— culture jamming prankster activists Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum (not their real names)—have pulled off some rather hilarious and spectacular media hoaxes to expose corporate crimes, stunts involving ExxonMobil, Hud, Wto, Dow Chemical, The New York Times and more. In this intimate portrait, a sort of follow up to 2007’s doc, “The Yes Men Fix the World,” but not solely lensed by the duo this time, the pair are now approaching middle age and struggle to stay inspired as the worst crime of all threatens the planet. Can they get it together before the ice caps melt? Here’s the official synopsis: For the last 20 years, notorious activists the Yes Men (Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum) have staged outrageous and hilarious hoaxes to draw international attention to corporate crimes against humanity and the environment. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits and a lack of shame,...
- 9/5/2014
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ever heard of the The Yes Men? Activist and filmmaker Andy Bichlbaum and his colleagues go about the country pretending to be official representatives of Exxon, The Chamber of Commerce, Halliburton etc. Then they hold fake press conferences and the like and film the public relations mayhem for whatever organization they’ve targeted. Basically it’s Crank Yankers for corporate watchdogs.
A few weeks ago we posted about the upcoming film Do I Sound Gay? in which filmmaker David Thorpe examines the concept of “the gay voice”– both his own and of others. (This highly anticipated film has already sparked a lot of discussion both here and on other sites such as Andrew Sullivan,)
Thorpe recently took up the topic of “the gay voice” with Bichlbaum. The Yes Man, while gay, doesn’t believe he comes off as a yesss man. Check out the conversation below.
The Kickstarter campaign to...
A few weeks ago we posted about the upcoming film Do I Sound Gay? in which filmmaker David Thorpe examines the concept of “the gay voice”– both his own and of others. (This highly anticipated film has already sparked a lot of discussion both here and on other sites such as Andrew Sullivan,)
Thorpe recently took up the topic of “the gay voice” with Bichlbaum. The Yes Man, while gay, doesn’t believe he comes off as a yesss man. Check out the conversation below.
The Kickstarter campaign to...
- 5/12/2014
- by Dennis Ayers
- The Backlot
In any given year, many Hot Docs entries are reserved for films about people fighting the good fight against a sometimes apathetic, and sometimes cruel system that are guilty of oppression in one way, shape or form. In some respects, Everyday Rebellion is like a highlight reel of every major protest over the last few years, including all the hits like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring and the Ukraine. The “in” for this movie is the idea that inventive and grassroots non-violent protest can change the world for the better, and is more beneficial than the more violent, bloodshed variety of change. There’s definitely something to that, but the message is murky because quite obviously, the small actions by the people profiled here aren’t moving the needle very much.
The focus of the film is truly on the “everyday people,” although usual instigators like Reverend Billy of...
The focus of the film is truly on the “everyday people,” although usual instigators like Reverend Billy of...
- 4/26/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
Idfa’s international co-finance and production market will run Nov 25-27 in Amsterdam.
During the Idfa Forum, filmmakers and producers will present documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other providers of finance, with the aim of completing the finance for their documentary projects.
In total, 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including the latest projects by Femke and Ilse van Velzen, Eva Mulvad and Marcus Vetter.
The Idfa 2013 screening program includes 18 documentaries presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
The 50 projects selected for the Idfa Forum 2013 will be pitched in various different settings: the central pitches in the Compagnietheater’s main hall; the round table pitches in the small hall; and one-on-one discussions with potential financiers.
For the second year in succession, the Idfa Forum includes the Work in Progress Screening category, aimed at stimulating sales and distribution.
While most of the projects at the Idfa Forum...
During the Idfa Forum, filmmakers and producers will present documentary projects to commissioning editors from international television stations and other providers of finance, with the aim of completing the finance for their documentary projects.
In total, 50 projects have been selected for the upcoming Idfa Forum, including the latest projects by Femke and Ilse van Velzen, Eva Mulvad and Marcus Vetter.
The Idfa 2013 screening program includes 18 documentaries presented as projects at previous editions of the Idfa Forum.
The 50 projects selected for the Idfa Forum 2013 will be pitched in various different settings: the central pitches in the Compagnietheater’s main hall; the round table pitches in the small hall; and one-on-one discussions with potential financiers.
For the second year in succession, the Idfa Forum includes the Work in Progress Screening category, aimed at stimulating sales and distribution.
While most of the projects at the Idfa Forum...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Six interactive non-fiction transmedia projects awarded a total of $400,000.
The Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) has announced the grant recipients for the 2013 Tfi New Media Fund.
In partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative, the six interactive non-fiction transmedia projects from around the world were awarded between $50,000 and $100,000 apiece with funding effective immediately. Total funding equalled $400,000.
The recipients will also take part in regular peer-to-peer meetings and a lab focused on interactive storytelling to help them develop their projects and build engagement with audiences.
Selected from a pool of 285 submissions, the projects selected are as follows:
Chasing the Sun
Key participants: Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons (The Goggles)
The Yes Men are Revolting
Key participants: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Laura Nix, Mary Notari, The Public Society, Glocal
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Key participants: Gael Garcia Bernal, Marc Silver, Lina Srivastava
This is My Backyard (Logs of War)
Key participants: Anjali Nayar, Jude Mwenda...
The Tribeca Film Institute (Tfi) has announced the grant recipients for the 2013 Tfi New Media Fund.
In partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Initiative, the six interactive non-fiction transmedia projects from around the world were awarded between $50,000 and $100,000 apiece with funding effective immediately. Total funding equalled $400,000.
The recipients will also take part in regular peer-to-peer meetings and a lab focused on interactive storytelling to help them develop their projects and build engagement with audiences.
Selected from a pool of 285 submissions, the projects selected are as follows:
Chasing the Sun
Key participants: Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons (The Goggles)
The Yes Men are Revolting
Key participants: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Laura Nix, Mary Notari, The Public Society, Glocal
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Key participants: Gael Garcia Bernal, Marc Silver, Lina Srivastava
This is My Backyard (Logs of War)
Key participants: Anjali Nayar, Jude Mwenda...
- 6/27/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are the Yes Men, two men who have sabotaged many a meeting or PR campaign of the world's most powerful transnational corporations and bureaucracies. By impersonating leaders of the world's most powerful institutions, they've apologized for Dow Chemical for not properly compensating citizens of Bhopal affected by the gas leak disaster faulted to a company, United Carbide, Dow later acquired. They've gone to numerous meetings of transnational organizations, earning uproarious applause for proposing plans that belittle the value of human lives in the face of mega corporate profits. Drawing from work by the likes of Michael Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen, the duo doesn't make political theater, they make politics theater. The pair have made two films -- "The Yes Men," "The Yes Men Fix the World" -- documenting their hijinx, but as the ramifications of capitalism are becoming all the more apparent...
- 11/13/2012
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
Enter now for a chance to win a prize pack from Docurama's "The Yes Men Fix the World" directed and written by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The DVD comes out on April 1st. Check out features as well as the plot and more below the poster. One lucky winner takes home a prize pack which includes in the following: (1) Official "The Yes Men Fix The World" DVD (1) Faux Edition of "The New York Times" - Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men (1) Faux Edition of "The New York Post" - Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men (1) Exclusive Mini Comic Book - Based on "The Yes Men Fix The World" A wickedly fun skewering of corporate greed, The Yes Men Fix The World is the true story of two conscientious mischief-makers who pose as the representatives of companies they despise. In this wonderfully therapeutic film, Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno impose...
- 3/31/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
At a time when anger at the corporate world is at an all-time high, who wouldn’t want to see the captains of industry mercilessly mocked? Well, this hilarious documentary about the exploits of a pair of talented pranksters known as the “Yes Men” spares no effort to turn corporate big shots into unsuspecting punchlines. However, their elaborate hoaxes are not done merely for the sake of being vindictive. The Yes Men are anti-globalization advocates who hope to bring attention to the heartlessness of the corporate mentality and make businesses act more responsibly.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are the titular Yes Men, who’ve made a name for themselves by irritating the rich and giving laughs to the poor. The duo has set up fake websites so they can intercept E-mails intended for big companies like Dow Chemicals. The pair of pranksters accept invitations to speaking engagements under the...
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are the titular Yes Men, who’ve made a name for themselves by irritating the rich and giving laughs to the poor. The duo has set up fake websites so they can intercept E-mails intended for big companies like Dow Chemicals. The pair of pranksters accept invitations to speaking engagements under the...
- 3/30/2010
- by Rob Young
- JustPressPlay.net
The Yes Men Fix the World is the sequel to the 2003 documentary The Yes Men about political pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. Like its predecessor, the film follows the activist duo as they stage a number of hilarious and elaborate stunts that raise awareness about globalization issues and expose corporate greed. The movie hits DVD this week (rather appropriately on April 1st), and we've got a special prize pack to give away right here on Film Junk. The package includes: A copy of The Yes Men Fix the World on DVD Faux Edition of The New York Times, Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men Faux Edition of The New York Post, Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men Exclusive Mini Comic Book Based on The Yes Men Fix the World So if you’d like to get your hands on the goods, just send your name and mailing address to filmjunk@gmail.
- 3/29/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
In celebration of upcoming DVD release of
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Total Images: (3)');">The Yes Men Fix the World on Thurs. April 1 (April Fools Day), we'd love to share readers and fans with a nice prize pack!(1) Official "The Yes Men Fix The World" DVD(1) Faux Edition of "The New York Times" - Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men(1) Faux Edition of "The New York Post" - Hand-Crafted by The Yes Men(1) Exclusive Mini Comic Book - Based on "The Yes Men Fix The World"As always Simply write your name and a valid email at the bottom of this page and if you are a winner you will receive the prize pack.Good Luck!Read more about The Yes Men Fix the World after the jump.Troublemaking duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, posing as their industrious alter-egos, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the faces behind the environmental disaster in Bhopal,...
- 3/22/2010
- Films N Movies
Director(s): Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr Writer(s): Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno Starring: Reggie Watts, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno Directed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (a.k.a. The Yes Men), and co-directed by Kurt Engfehr (editor-producer Bowling for Columbine; Fahrenheit 9/11), this humor-injected political documentary makes Michael Moore’s most recent effort seem utterly uninspired. Posing as high-ranking representatives of evil corporations, the Yes Men con their way into business conferences and television interviews in order to wake up their audiences to the dangers of passively allowing greed to rule the world. The results are more than just silly activist pranks; the actions of the Yes Men are thoughtfully conceived acts of protest designed to reach the largest possible audiences, inciting discussion, debate and action. One example, Bichlbaum, in the guise of a Dow Chemical spokesperson, appears on a BBC News interview (viewed by over...
- 2/7/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Marrying Swiftian satire with hi-tech saboteurship and the good ol' art of the con, The Yes Men are an infamous group of agitprop pranksters who've emerged as cable news darlings and mini movie stars in their own right. Just mild-mannered and vaguely authoritative enough in demeanor to slip through security cracks, The Yes Men -- aka Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno -- assume the identities of everyone from big oil and chemical execs to World Trade Organization officials to representatives of the U.S. Government, mounting bogus press conferences and lecture appearances to make their point. (At a Canadian oil conference, for example, they posed as ExxonMobil reps, telling 20,000 industry workers they've devised a new technique that would turn the human victims of their irresponsible practices into an oil substitute called "Vivoleum.") It's all part of their all-out, highly entertaining battle against what they finger as the U.S.'s most dangerous enemy: disaster capitalism.
- 11/9/2009
- Movieline
The bottle looks beautiful. It sports an old-fashioned spring-top stopper. The red, diamond-shaped label features an elegant font. From a distance, the silhouetted landscape on the label looks exotic. It is, like all fine gourmet water, "bottled at source." Even the French name of the water suggests elegance: B'eau Pal. But wait: B'eau Pal? That sounds rather familiar. You look at the label more carefully. The top of the label reads: "25 years of pollution." The picture on the label isn't an exotic location after all. It's ... the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India that poisoned a half a million people and killed thousands back in 1984 when it accidentally released tons of methyl isocyanate. B'eau Pal is the work of the Yes Men, the dynamic duo of disinformation. Five years ago, one of the pair, Andy Bichlbaum, appeared on BBC...
- 10/28/2009
- by John Feffer
- Huffington Post
Anyone else a fan of pranksters The Yes Men, who you may have seen in films The Yes Men and (out now) The Yes Men Fix The World? Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are activists who carry out Punk’d style stunts to embarrass politicians and corporations. My favorite past stunt was the phallic Wto management leisure suit. They have a new video channel at Babelgum, which will be the place to catch up on future pranks. In the video below, you can check them out introducing “Survivaballs” and sending them to the United Nations. Smart? Funny? Both? Or a Halloween costume idea?...
- 10/23/2009
- by Wendy Mitchell
- EW.com - PopWatch
In 2003’s The Yes Men, Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum set up a website mimicking and lampooning the World Trade Organization, a corporation they oppose. Their website, however, was mistaken for the real thing and they were invited to speak at important meetings and functions as representatives for the Wto. They decided to use the opportunity to hold a mirror up and show the corporations their own greed and hopefully make a difference. Now, with The Yes Men Fix the World, a sequel of sorts, they have gotten even better at making people think they represent companies they do not.
The Yes Men take a page from Sasha Baron Cohen and two pages from Michael Moore to turn in their elaborate pranks on large corporations. In the first of four hoaxes shown in this film, Andy gets invited to go on the BBC as a spokesperson for Dow Chemical. The...
The Yes Men take a page from Sasha Baron Cohen and two pages from Michael Moore to turn in their elaborate pranks on large corporations. In the first of four hoaxes shown in this film, Andy gets invited to go on the BBC as a spokesperson for Dow Chemical. The...
- 10/23/2009
- by Marco Duran
- Atomic Popcorn
The Maldives government pulled the ultimate global warming PR stunt this past weekend when it held a cabinet meeting on the sea floor. The stunt, meant to highlight the issues facing the lowest-lying country on Earth, received plenty of attention. All of which got us thinking: what other global warming PR stunts have made an impact? Below, we look at some of our favorites.
1. Earth Hour
Contentious? Yes, but that's the point. This World Wildlife Fund-organized annual event asks businesses and homes to turn off all lights and electrical appliances for an hour in protest of climate change. The global event has hundreds of participating countries and cities.
2. The Chamber of Commerce Statement
Activist group The Yes Men pulled a fast one on the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Reuters yesterday when group member Andy Bichlbaum impersonated a Chamber of Commerce executive at a press conference and delivered...
1. Earth Hour
Contentious? Yes, but that's the point. This World Wildlife Fund-organized annual event asks businesses and homes to turn off all lights and electrical appliances for an hour in protest of climate change. The global event has hundreds of participating countries and cities.
2. The Chamber of Commerce Statement
Activist group The Yes Men pulled a fast one on the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Reuters yesterday when group member Andy Bichlbaum impersonated a Chamber of Commerce executive at a press conference and delivered...
- 10/20/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
The slice of life story of two masters of the modern hoax. More laughs per dollar than any other film fuel A tough film to call a simple documentary, .Yes Men. is a hilarious odyssey into an insane world made more insane and more rational at the same time. The product of two film makers who probably never saw themselves as film makers, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, this is a production that is almost too good to be a film. It should be some kind of stage play accompanied by the London Philharmonic on Lsd while being blessed by Mother Teresa. Although it is the most amateur of productions the film copped the Berlin International Film Festival...
- 10/11/2009
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Anti-globalization pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno quiver with contradictions. As provocateurs The Yes Men, Bichlbaum and Bonanno are fearless in how they plan and execute elaborate, inventive pranks. Yet these clammy, anxious lefty wisenheimers seem perpetually coated in flopsweat. If Sacha Baron Cohen has ice water in his veins, The Yes Men appear to have insides of Jell-o. The duo are relentlessly idealistic in their vision of a progressive utopia, yet they traffic in unrelentingly dark, tasteless humor; while preparing for a prank in which they get attendees at a conference to hold candles ostensibly made of human flesh ...
- 10/8/2009
- avclub.com
Editor’S Note: This review was original published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. “The Yes Men Fix The World” opens this Wednesday in theaters. Fans of corporate satirists “The Yes Men” from their self-titled 2003 debut documentary will get a kick out of their sincerely amusing follow-up, “The Yes Men Fix the World.” Boosted by the promises of an Obama-led world, performance artists Jacques Servin and …...
- 10/5/2009
- Indiewire
In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers. Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum articulate their agenda concisely: "What we do is pass ourselves off as representatives of big corporations we don't like." It doesn't take the full measure of the duo's abundant wit to expose the unfettered greed of the corporate executives. At a conference on international finance, Bonanno poses as a spokesman for Dow Chemical (the company responsible for the largest industrial disaster in history, which left 5,000 dead and 100,000 sick in Bhopal, India following a pesticide plant explosion). To enthusiastic applause, Bonanno introduces the fictional "Acceptable Risk Project," a model to enable organizations to calculate whether the human toll of a business enterprise is worth the potential profit. Following the presentation,...
- 7/27/2009
- by Liza Weisberg
- Huffington Post
Every year in Toronto, the Hot Docs Film Festival [1] manages to assemble an exciting assortment of top-notch documentary films from around the world. This year was certainly no different, and a number of the movies have already picked up distribution deals and are well on their way to gaining mainstream attention. However, there are always plenty of diamonds in the rough as well, amazing films that sadly may never find the audience they deserve. So which upcoming documentaries are hits and which are near-misses? Read on for our full report from the 2009 Hot Docs Festival! Best Worst Movie When he was 11 years old, Michael Paul Stephenson was cast in a low budget horror movie called Troll 2. He, along with many of the other actors, thought that it would be their ticket to big time acting careers, but were shocked to find out afterward that the final product was a complete disaster.
- 5/27/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The 2009 Hot Docs lineup has officially been announced and I'm extremely excited. For one, this will be a good opportunity to catch up on many of the films I missed at Sundance. Also, I'm currently not working, so I will have all of free time to dedicate to the festival. Nice. Luckily, there's a shit ton of movies that I'm interested in, so it won't be hard to fill out my schedule (It never really is). I've posted some crucial picks below, but you can also check out the full schedule for yourself over at the Hot Docs website [1]. What are you looking forward to this year? Objectified [2] Directed by Gary Hustwit [3] From telephones to toothpicks, nearly everything that fills our world is designed. Objects look and work the way they do because someone made them that way. Director Gary Hustwit examines industrial design's sweeping cultural impact with the same...
- 3/25/2009
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
- 2/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Berlin -- Richard Loncraine's "My One and Only," a '50s-era comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Kevin Bacon, was squeezed into the competition lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival, barely a week before the event kicks off.
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
Zellweger plays a glamorous single mom on the hunt for a rich man to foot the bill for her and her sons' lifestyle. Produced by Merv Griffith Entertainment and Ray Gun Prods., "My One and Only" will have its world premiere in Berlin. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales.
Berlin also added Lone Scherfig's Sundance favorite "An Education" with Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina and Emma Thompson and Davis Guggenheim's music documentary "It Might Get Loud" for its Berlinale Special Galas, ensuring the films will get the red carpet treatment without any of the pressure of competition.
All three films should give an added boost of star power to...
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
And here's the rest fo them which includes loads of world premiers, plenty of Asian flare, and lot's of film makers I've never heard of before..
Check the list after the break.
Panorama Main Programme
Dongbei, Dongbei (A North Chinese Girl) by Zou Peng, People’s Republic of China (Wp)
With Tian Yi-Wen, Wu Rui-Peng, Liu Xing-Ping
Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky) by Julián Hernández, Mexico (Wp)
With Jorge Becerra, Javier Oliván, Guillermo Villegas, Giovanna Zacarias
Rossiya 88 (Russia 88) by Pavel Bardin, Russian Federation (Wp)
With Petr Fyodorov, Vera Strokova, Kazbek Kibizov
Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen (Sleeping Songs) by Andreas Struck, Germany (Wp)
With Stefan Rudolf, Chulpan Khamatova, Traute Hoess, Paula Kalenberg, Barnaby Metschurat
Strella by Panos H. Koutras, Greece (Wp)
With Mina Orfanou, Yiannis Kokkiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Betty Vakalidou
Vingança (Retribution) by Paulo Pons, Brazil
With Bárbara Borges, Erom Cordeiro, Branca Messina, Guta Stresser, Marcio...
Check the list after the break.
Panorama Main Programme
Dongbei, Dongbei (A North Chinese Girl) by Zou Peng, People’s Republic of China (Wp)
With Tian Yi-Wen, Wu Rui-Peng, Liu Xing-Ping
Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky) by Julián Hernández, Mexico (Wp)
With Jorge Becerra, Javier Oliván, Guillermo Villegas, Giovanna Zacarias
Rossiya 88 (Russia 88) by Pavel Bardin, Russian Federation (Wp)
With Petr Fyodorov, Vera Strokova, Kazbek Kibizov
Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen (Sleeping Songs) by Andreas Struck, Germany (Wp)
With Stefan Rudolf, Chulpan Khamatova, Traute Hoess, Paula Kalenberg, Barnaby Metschurat
Strella by Panos H. Koutras, Greece (Wp)
With Mina Orfanou, Yiannis Kokkiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Betty Vakalidou
Vingança (Retribution) by Paulo Pons, Brazil
With Bárbara Borges, Erom Cordeiro, Branca Messina, Guta Stresser, Marcio...
- 1/21/2009
- QuietEarth.us
First off, the best news, as I predicted (in private) Duncan Jones' Moon will be premiering, yay! The comedy Adventureland starring the talented Bill Hader is playing. The sweet kid soldier film Johnny Mad Dog is playing in the spectrum section, and the Jesco White story White Lightnin' which we reported on earlier is in the Park City at Midnight section.
But where the hell is Stingray Sam?
Full list after the break.
Premieres
* "Adventureland," directed and written by Greg Mottola, stars Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds and Bill Hader in the story of a college grad who gets a job at an amusement park. A Miramax release.
* "Brooklyn’s Finest," directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin, a drama about three Brooklyn cops who come together at the same deadly location. With Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle and Ellen Barkin.
* "Earth Days," directed by Robert Stone,...
But where the hell is Stingray Sam?
Full list after the break.
Premieres
* "Adventureland," directed and written by Greg Mottola, stars Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds and Bill Hader in the story of a college grad who gets a job at an amusement park. A Miramax release.
* "Brooklyn’s Finest," directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin, a drama about three Brooklyn cops who come together at the same deadly location. With Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle and Ellen Barkin.
* "Earth Days," directed by Robert Stone,...
- 12/4/2008
- QuietEarth.us
Premieres
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, this section offers the latest work from American and international directors and world premieres of highly anticipated films.
Adventureland / U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Greg Mottola)
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect preparation for the real world. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader. World premiere
Brooklyn's Finest / U.S. (Director: Antoine Fuqua; screenwriter: Michael C. Martin)
After enduring vastly different career paths, three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location. Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin. World premiere
Earth Days / U.S. (Director: Robert Stone)
The history of our environmental undoing through the eyes of nine Americans whose work and actions launched the modern environmental movement. World premiere, closing-night film
Endgame / U.K. (Director: Pete Travis; screenwriter: Paula Milne)
A...
To showcase the diversity of contemporary independent cinema, this section offers the latest work from American and international directors and world premieres of highly anticipated films.
Adventureland / U.S. (Director-screenwriter: Greg Mottola)
In 1987, a recent college graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers the job is perfect preparation for the real world. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Hader. World premiere
Brooklyn's Finest / U.S. (Director: Antoine Fuqua; screenwriter: Michael C. Martin)
After enduring vastly different career paths, three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location. Cast: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin. World premiere
Earth Days / U.S. (Director: Robert Stone)
The history of our environmental undoing through the eyes of nine Americans whose work and actions launched the modern environmental movement. World premiere, closing-night film
Endgame / U.K. (Director: Pete Travis; screenwriter: Paula Milne)
A...
- 12/4/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- It's time to establish a category in the burgeoning documentary film movement called the "subversive documentary." Clearly the work of Michael Moore and Errol Morris has pointed the way to these activist films that seek to directly confront perpetrators of injustice and corporate malfeasance in American society with the naked truth of their actions.
Sundance 2004 has given us two more brilliantly subversive films: Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", in which the filmmaker wolfs down McDonald's dubious food for 30 days, making himself quite ill, and "The Yes Men" by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price.
These three documentarians follow The Yes Men, two merry pranksters-cum-political activists named Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who over several years impersonated officials of the World Trade Organization. They have appeared at conferences and on TV to promote theories and projects that are the reductio ad absurdum of WTO policies to increase corporate profits in the Third World.
The fact that businessmen and lawyers respond to lunatic ideas as being reasonable simply because they believe them to come from WTO representatives demonstrates the key point of the Yes Men: True believers will accept the most heinous arguments and propositions if they are uttered by other true believers.
The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with The Yes Men -- so named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film. UA, which distributed the most successful docu in theatrical history, Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine," has another winner here.
The filmmakers record the careful preparations for each appearance. The Yes Men don't take their pranks lightly. Business cards are created, costumes made and speeches rehearsed. When these presentations are made, the effect is that of a "Saturday Night Live" skit where the audience is clueless that they are witnessing scathing satire.
The climax probably comes too early. About midway through, the men attend a textile conference in Finland, where they first argue that American slavery was not so much immoral as cost-inefficient. Then they unveil a gold lame business suit for the international business manager with an inflatable 3-foot phallus that contains a TV monitor on which he might watch over his sweatshop workers around the world.
The only group to revolt is college students, whose b.s. detectors are clearly more acute than those of corporate true believers. The young people get angry when The Yes Men propose to end world hunger by making the poor eat hamburgers made of human waste that can be recycled up to 10 times. (It's been a tough festival for the fast-food industry.)
Yes, "The Yes Men" inspires much laughter, but one leaves the theater in a somber mood. That's when the realization hits that those who rule the corporate world and global trade actually think like this.
THE YES MEN
United Artists
United Artists and Bluemark Prods. present
a Yes Men Films production
Credits:
Directors/producers/directors of photography: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price
Editor: Dan Ollman
Cast:
Andy Bichlbaum
Mike Bonanno
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- It's time to establish a category in the burgeoning documentary film movement called the "subversive documentary." Clearly the work of Michael Moore and Errol Morris has pointed the way to these activist films that seek to directly confront perpetrators of injustice and corporate malfeasance in American society with the naked truth of their actions.
Sundance 2004 has given us two more brilliantly subversive films: Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", in which the filmmaker wolfs down McDonald's dubious food for 30 days, making himself quite ill, and "The Yes Men" by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price.
These three documentarians follow The Yes Men, two merry pranksters-cum-political activists named Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who over several years impersonated officials of the World Trade Organization. They have appeared at conferences and on TV to promote theories and projects that are the reductio ad absurdum of WTO policies to increase corporate profits in the Third World.
The fact that businessmen and lawyers respond to lunatic ideas as being reasonable simply because they believe them to come from WTO representatives demonstrates the key point of the Yes Men: True believers will accept the most heinous arguments and propositions if they are uttered by other true believers.
The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with The Yes Men -- so named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film. UA, which distributed the most successful docu in theatrical history, Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine," has another winner here.
The filmmakers record the careful preparations for each appearance. The Yes Men don't take their pranks lightly. Business cards are created, costumes made and speeches rehearsed. When these presentations are made, the effect is that of a "Saturday Night Live" skit where the audience is clueless that they are witnessing scathing satire.
The climax probably comes too early. About midway through, the men attend a textile conference in Finland, where they first argue that American slavery was not so much immoral as cost-inefficient. Then they unveil a gold lame business suit for the international business manager with an inflatable 3-foot phallus that contains a TV monitor on which he might watch over his sweatshop workers around the world.
The only group to revolt is college students, whose b.s. detectors are clearly more acute than those of corporate true believers. The young people get angry when The Yes Men propose to end world hunger by making the poor eat hamburgers made of human waste that can be recycled up to 10 times. (It's been a tough festival for the fast-food industry.)
Yes, "The Yes Men" inspires much laughter, but one leaves the theater in a somber mood. That's when the realization hits that those who rule the corporate world and global trade actually think like this.
THE YES MEN
United Artists
United Artists and Bluemark Prods. present
a Yes Men Films production
Credits:
Directors/producers/directors of photography: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price
Editor: Dan Ollman
Cast:
Andy Bichlbaum
Mike Bonanno
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- It's time to establish a category in the burgeoning documentary film movement called the "subversive documentary." Clearly the work of Michael Moore and Errol Morris has pointed the way to these activist films that seek to directly confront perpetrators of injustice and corporate malfeasance in American society with the naked truth of their actions.
Sundance 2004 has given us two more brilliantly subversive films: Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", in which the filmmaker wolfs down McDonald's dubious food for 30 days, making himself quite ill, and "The Yes Men" by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price.
These three documentarians follow The Yes Men, two merry pranksters-cum-political activists named Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who over several years impersonated officials of the World Trade Organization. They have appeared at conferences and on TV to promote theories and projects that are the reductio ad absurdum of WTO policies to increase corporate profits in the Third World.
The fact that businessmen and lawyers respond to lunatic ideas as being reasonable simply because they believe them to come from WTO representatives demonstrates the key point of the Yes Men: True believers will accept the most heinous arguments and propositions if they are uttered by other true believers.
The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with The Yes Men -- so named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film. UA, which distributed the most successful docu in theatrical history, Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine," has another winner here.
The filmmakers record the careful preparations for each appearance. The Yes Men don't take their pranks lightly. Business cards are created, costumes made and speeches rehearsed. When these presentations are made, the effect is that of a "Saturday Night Live" skit where the audience is clueless that they are witnessing scathing satire.
The climax probably comes too early. About midway through, the men attend a textile conference in Finland, where they first argue that American slavery was not so much immoral as cost-inefficient. Then they unveil a gold lame business suit for the international business manager with an inflatable 3-foot phallus that contains a TV monitor on which he might watch over his sweatshop workers around the world.
The only group to revolt is college students, whose b.s. detectors are clearly more acute than those of corporate true believers. The young people get angry when The Yes Men propose to end world hunger by making the poor eat hamburgers made of human waste that can be recycled up to 10 times. (It's been a tough festival for the fast-food industry.)
Yes, "The Yes Men" inspires much laughter, but one leaves the theater in a somber mood. That's when the realization hits that those who rule the corporate world and global trade actually think like this.
THE YES MEN
United Artists
United Artists and Bluemark Prods. present
a Yes Men Films production
Credits:
Directors/producers/directors of photography: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price
Editor: Dan Ollman
Cast:
Andy Bichlbaum
Mike Bonanno
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- It's time to establish a category in the burgeoning documentary film movement called the "subversive documentary." Clearly the work of Michael Moore and Errol Morris has pointed the way to these activist films that seek to directly confront perpetrators of injustice and corporate malfeasance in American society with the naked truth of their actions.
Sundance 2004 has given us two more brilliantly subversive films: Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me", in which the filmmaker wolfs down McDonald's dubious food for 30 days, making himself quite ill, and "The Yes Men" by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman and Sarah Price.
These three documentarians follow The Yes Men, two merry pranksters-cum-political activists named Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who over several years impersonated officials of the World Trade Organization. They have appeared at conferences and on TV to promote theories and projects that are the reductio ad absurdum of WTO policies to increase corporate profits in the Third World.
The fact that businessmen and lawyers respond to lunatic ideas as being reasonable simply because they believe them to come from WTO representatives demonstrates the key point of the Yes Men: True believers will accept the most heinous arguments and propositions if they are uttered by other true believers.
The result of the filmmakers' four-year journey with The Yes Men -- so named because they basically agree with people, then push their ideas to the point of absurdity -- is a head-shaking, gut-busting subversive film. UA, which distributed the most successful docu in theatrical history, Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine," has another winner here.
The filmmakers record the careful preparations for each appearance. The Yes Men don't take their pranks lightly. Business cards are created, costumes made and speeches rehearsed. When these presentations are made, the effect is that of a "Saturday Night Live" skit where the audience is clueless that they are witnessing scathing satire.
The climax probably comes too early. About midway through, the men attend a textile conference in Finland, where they first argue that American slavery was not so much immoral as cost-inefficient. Then they unveil a gold lame business suit for the international business manager with an inflatable 3-foot phallus that contains a TV monitor on which he might watch over his sweatshop workers around the world.
The only group to revolt is college students, whose b.s. detectors are clearly more acute than those of corporate true believers. The young people get angry when The Yes Men propose to end world hunger by making the poor eat hamburgers made of human waste that can be recycled up to 10 times. (It's been a tough festival for the fast-food industry.)
Yes, "The Yes Men" inspires much laughter, but one leaves the theater in a somber mood. That's when the realization hits that those who rule the corporate world and global trade actually think like this.
THE YES MEN
United Artists
United Artists and Bluemark Prods. present
a Yes Men Films production
Credits:
Directors/producers/directors of photography: Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price
Editor: Dan Ollman
Cast:
Andy Bichlbaum
Mike Bonanno
Running time -- 80 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/22/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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