'Go Further,' explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal: To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally destructive behaviors. The travelers include 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. We see the hostility these pilgrims encounter and watch as their ideas are challenged from within and without. We meet an entrepreneur who runs a paper company that does not harm trees, an organic farmer who believes Nature is his partner and a man who teaches environmental activists to use humor as a strategic weapon. And throughout, we see Harrelson test his belief that the transformation of our planet begins with the small personal transformations that are within the grasp of each and every one of us, after which, we'll go further.
Production Boneyard Entertainment; Cameraplanet Productions [ca]; Chum Television [ca]; Sphinx Productions [ca];
Cast Names Tom Ballanco; Steve Clark; Michael Franti; Rob Heydon; Joe Hickey; Anthony Kiedis; Joe Lewis; Billy Martin; Dave Matthews; John Medeski; Bob Weir; Chris Wood; Jessica Chung; Sonia Farrell; Renee Loux Underkoffler; Natalie Merchant; Woody Harrelson; Ken Kesey;
Release Date 2003-03-07 (South by Southwest Film Festival) (premiere) 2003-10-01 * (Chicago International Film Festival) 2004-11-19 (New York City, New York)
Genres Documentary;
Running Time 1 hr. 30 min. (Toronto International Film Festival) 1 hr. 40 min. 1 hr. 20 min.