Saturday 6 February at 3pm
France, UK and USA 2009
Directors: Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno
Co-director: Kurt Engfehr
Producers: Doro Bachrach, Ruth Charny and Laura Nix
Duration: 87’
Awards: Panorama Audience Award – Berlin International Film Festival, Most Entertaining Documentary – Grierson Award, Youth Jury Award – IDFA.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can’t take ‘no’ for an answer. They also have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, they lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate nemeses in extreme and shocking ways – doing everything they can to alert their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.
After years of honing their pranking skills, the Yes Men pull off a number of incredible stunts that open their eyes to exactly how much danger we all face. Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, is interviewed for BBC World News and announces that after 20 years of denial, Dow will finally clean up the site of the Bhopal catastrophe, the largest industrial accident in history. As people celebrate, Dow’s stock value loses $2bn.
Q&A
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno talked – via Skype – about how to get on prime time TV and making investigations fun.
further information
The Yes Men Fix the World – the film site
Find out more about Film Week 2010
The cij would like to thank the Lorana Sullivan Foundation for supporting the event.