Go Further is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Ron Mann

Ron Mann

Ronald "Ron" Mann is a Canadian documentary film director focusing primarily on aspects of Canadian and American popular culture. He does most of his work through his company Sphinx Productions, while also running a film distribution company on the side called 'FilmsWeLike'. Mann has also put...

 starring Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor.Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd...

 and a group of other environmental activists riding around in a large, bio-fueled

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 bus. The tour was called the Simple Organic Living Tour and it was produced by cause-related marketers The Spitfire Agency. The film debuted at the South by Southwest

South by Southwest

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 Film Festival in March 2003, and at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

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 in September 2003, where it was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award. It was also nominated for a Genie Award

Genie Award

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 for Best Documentary. The film features cameos of Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

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, Natalie Merchant

Natalie Merchant

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, Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a...

, Bob Weir

Bob Weir

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 (of the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

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), Michael Franti

Michael Franti

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 (of Spearhead), Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis is an American vocalist/lyricist, and occasional actor best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his 12th birthday, to Hollywood,...

 (of Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...

), Rob Heydon

Rob Heydon

Rob Heydon is an award winning Canadian film director who has shot music videos, feature films and documentaries....

, Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood

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, and The String Cheese Incident.

Description

Ron Mann’s “Go Further” is a documentary observing the escapades of Woody Harrelson and his comrades as they travel from Seattle, WA, to Los Angeles, CA. In an attempt to spread a message of change in order to better the planet, Woody and his companions-“a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist, a junk-food addict, and a college student who suspends her life to impulsively hop aboard”-speak at numerous universities and visit various environmentally important sites. These sites include a tree-friendly paper producer, an eco-friendly farmer, and an activist training camp where people are trained various techniques to resist authorities attempting to break up protests. It is an example of Individual and political action on climate change

Individual and political action on climate change

Individual and political action on climate change can take many forms, most of which have the ultimate goal of limiting and/or reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, toward avoiding dangerous climate change.-Political action:...

, with a Left Coast

Left Coast

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 flavor, in contrast with the NYC No Impact Man

No Impact Man

No Impact Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. The film, which premiered September 4, 2009, follows Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long experiment to have sustainable zero impact on the environment.-See also:* Appropriate technology*...

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Book

The film also triggered the writing of a book, entitled Go Further published by Warwick Publishing in Toronto, Ontario. The book's ideologies and themes parallel the movie.