The Yes Men Are Revolting
Feature length film Completed 2015
Director
The Yes Men
Director
Laura Nix
Doc Society helped with
Production
Impact
Went to Good Pitch
Runtime: 80 minutes
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For nearly two decades, Yes Men Mike and Andy have pulled off notorious media hoaxes that expose corporate crimes. Now middle-aged, they're taking on the biggest threat they've ever faced - climate change. Can they overcome insurmountable political forces before it’s too late to save the planet?
Long Synopsis
For nearly two decades, the notorious activist duo the Yes Men (Mike and Andy) have staged outrageous hoaxes, armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, at business events, on the internet, television, and in the streets, to show the danger of letting greed run our world. Now they’re trying to tackle the world’s biggest problem: climate change. In a perfect storm, they find themselves confronting the greatest problem to face humanity while they're in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Disillusioned, they’re not sure they can make a difference anymore. Can they get their hope back in time to pull off major climate actions before the ice caps melt? In this character-driven documentary, we go behind the scenes with these activist legends. Following their lives for over four years, the film reveals their creative process, outrageous strategies, and personal conflicts while they juggle the demands of getting older, holding down jobs, and maintaining some shred of personal lives. From villages in Uganda’s Karamoja region to the toxic oil fields in Canada’s tar sands, from the canals of Amsterdam to the steps of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, the Yes Men deliver hilarious actions of global significance. THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING is more than an entertaining depiction of their latest interventions – its heart lies in what it means to fight for change.
Outreach Work Supported
Hire of an impact producer and development of activist workshop programme.
Crew
The Yes Men
Director
Igor Vamos and Jacques Servin (the Yes Men) (directors)
The Yes Men are an activist duo known for their outrageous satirical interventions at business events, on the internet, television, and in the streets. Their award-winning documentaries, The Yes Men and The Yes Men Fix the World -- official selections at Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, and SXSW, and broadcast on HBO and many international TV outlets -- chronicle the their mind-blowing pranks that expose and publicize vital issues at critical times. They have authored several books, lecture internationally on art and social change, and are founders of the Yes Lab, an educational organization devoted to training next-generation activists.
Laura Nix
Director
Laura Nix directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, (Toronto Film Festival 2014, Berlinale 2015), which was released domestically as well as in multiple international territories. Previously she directed and produced the documentary THE LIGHT IN HER EYES which premiered at IDFA, was broadcast on the PBS series POV, Al Jazeera Middle East, and toured the world as part of Sundance's Film Forward program. Her other feature directing credits include the comedic melodrama THE POLITICS OF FUR, which played in over 70 festivals internationally, and won multiple awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. She is the current Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact fellow, a film expert for the U.S. State Department’s American Film Showcase, and her nonfiction work has screened at over a hundred film festivals internationally, and on television via HBO, Arte, ZDF, VPRO, CBC, NHK, Canal +, IFC, and New York Times Op-Docs.
