Provincetown International Film Festival 2009

-Sponsored by HBO

Co-director Andy Bichlbaum will be in attendance.

The Yes Men are back. After their first film, you would think they had blown their cover, but, to the contrary, they have only stepped up their game. If you don't know them, they're Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, a pair of notorious troublemakers who sneak into corporate events disguised as captains of industry. Then they use their momentary authority to expose the biggest criminals on the planet. In THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, they've set their sights on a plethora of manmade disasters, from profiteering after Hurricane Katrina to the environmental disaster in Bhopal, India. Initially their antics come across like adolescent pranks, but after further exploration, you discover that the Yes Men can actually be considered "inside out activists." By changing reality - even temporarily - they open your mind to the possible. Sweet dreams for some, a nightmare for corporate Goliaths with skeletons in the closet. When they present what should have been done, you become acutely aware of how easy it would have been to solve the problem in the first place. A film complete with comedic interludes and, yes, an underwater ballet, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is as entertaining as it is effective.--John Cooper, Sundance Film Festival

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.

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