OPENING NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA

THURSDAY 10 SEP @ 6.00PM - 12.00AM

Price: $40 + bf adult / $35 + bf conc
Bookings: (02) 9550 3666
Tickets: On sale now @ Factory Theatre; Buy tickets online

Join us for the opening of the 2009 festival with the new film by the anti-capitalist pranksters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum called, THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. Guests will be welcomed with Huon Aqua premium salmon and Ashgrove Farm cheeses plus KAMAHL treats opening night guests to a special one-off performance! After the film screening enjoy 2SER¹s DJ Meem plus gourmet pizza thanks to our friends DOUGHBOY PIZZA Newtown and complimentary Fat Yak Beer and fine wine by Beelgara Estate Winery. The opening night will be one to remember so don¹t miss out!

OPENING NIGHT FILM

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD Directors: Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno

NSW Premiere

The Yes Men are back! For those of you who don’t know the anti-capitist pranksters / ‘inside out activists’, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno – they impersonate top executives of corporations they hate and use their momentary authority to expose the biggest criminals on the planet. In The Yes Men Fix the World, Mike and Andy use their unique form of Gonzo activism to take on some of the most notorious corporations (Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Halliburton) and even make Dow Chemicals lose 2 Billion dollars overnight! Andy and Mike bravely put themselves on the line to bring you a hilarious film that compels all of us to question why we have given the ‘free market’ more power than any other institution to determine our direction as a society. Furthermore, why are we letting greed run our world when it is ultimately putting the human race at risk of extinction.

OPENING NIGHT SHORTS

MY NAME IS POCHSY: AN INDUSTRIAL FILM Director: Karen Hines Pochsy works at Mercury Packers … where she packs mercury. A trans-genre ode to industrial propaganda films and a scathing satire for our times. Spouting affirmations culled from sources as disparate as the Dalai Lama, ‘The Secret’ and the Wal-Mart Mission Statement, Pochsy is a spokesgirl for a species on the brink.

CATTLE CALL Directors: Matthew Rankin & Miki Maryniuk A hyper-speed, abstract, absurd, adrenalizing, animated documentary about the art of cattle auctioneering, structured around the mesmerizing talents of Canadian champion auctioneer, Tim Dowler. A hallucinogenic mind-trip into what Werner Herzog has described as the “poetry of capitalism.”