Have you ever wished that big companies would stop thinking about what is best for the bottom line and start thinking about what is best for the earth (and thus their own long term survival). Well The Yes Men decided to stop waiting and to give those big companies a “gentle push.”

Their infiltrate and destroy style of satire is hilarious and a stinging social commentary all at once. I am actually going to get a chance to view a preview screening of this movie, so I will let you know how it is, but even if the movie sucks The Yes Men are awesome, and what they do is amazing. We have covered them before hereand here.

Presser for the movie below:

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AWARD-WINNING SHOCK-DOC “THE YES MEN FIX THE
WORLD” REACHES THE UK

Exclusive cinema event to link 21 cinemas in live screening and debate on
Tuesday 11 August 2009 from 8.30pm

LONDON. The hilariously shocking The Yes Men Fix the World arrives in the
UK on Tuesday 11 August via a nationwide cinema satellite link-up having
received standing ovations at its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
and winning the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Audience Award earlier this
year.

UK film distributor Dogwoof has joined forces with Sheffield Doc/Fest and
Picturehouse Cinemas to present a special screening and live debate broadcast
from the Showroom cinema in Sheffield and linked live to cinemas in London,
Aberdeen, Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Lancaster,
Liverpool, Newcastle, Norwich, Oxford, Prestatyn, Southampton and York.
Led by a celebrity panel at the Sheffield Showroom including the Yes Men who
will be specially flown in to discuss the controversial film, cinema-goers will have
the opportunity to put their questions live and direct to the film’s stars from their
respective cinema locations.

Directed by the ‘Yes Men’ (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) in collaboration
with Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 editor Kurt Engfehr, who codirects,
The Yes Men Fix The World leads us through the daring political pranks
of two gonzo activists as they take on the fake identity of corporate executives in
a bid to highlight the greed and brutal selfishness of some of the world’s biggest
and most powerful multi-national corporations.

The film begins with the Yes Men’s famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow
Chemical spokesperson on BBC World News, in which they took responsibility
for the largest industrial accident in history – the Bhopal disaster – in a broadcast
that reached 300 million people. Dow’s share price dropped by $2 billion in just
23 minutes as shareholders rejected the idea of compensating families who
suffered death, disability and disease after 42 tonnes of toxic gas from a leaky
chemical plant engulfed the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.

The film also shows the Yes Men posing as Exxon and Halliburton
representatives, presenting shocking and ridiculous solutions to climate change
to industry audiences, as well as appearing alongside the governor of Louisiana
and the mayor of New Orleans to show how government could right the wrongs
done to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Besides covering the Yes Men’s daring hoaxes, the film investigates and attacks
the blind worship of the free market that has led so many corporations and
government agencies to put profits before people.