'The Yes Men Fix the World'
Reel Justice Film Series
The Yes Men Fix The World is a screwball true story about two political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate excesses impact the world.
Yes Men opened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film begins with the Yes Men's famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow Chemical spokesperson taking responsibility for the largest industrial accident in history before 300 million people on BBC World News. It ends with the much-reported distribution of 100,000 copies of a fake New York Times - a "good news" edition announcing, among other things, the end of the Iraq War.
Admission is free.
Sponsored By
Center for Equality and JusticeContact
Gregory Freeland
freeland@callutheran.edu
(805) 493-3477