How to view: Watch a sneak peak of the television premier http://www.standupplanet.org/2014/03/tune-in/
The show premiers on May 14th 2014 on Pivot, Link TV and KCET Los Angeles
Director: David Munro | Producer: Wendy Hanamura
Produced | Country: USA
Run Time: | Language: English
Synopsis: Stand Up Planet began with a hypothesis: the world is full of struggle. Comedy comes from adversity. This must be one hilarious planet. To prove it, they ventured around the globe to places dealing with serious issues. The world's highest HIV infection rate in South Africa. A sanitation crisis of staggering proportion in India.
Punchlines were unmistakable - spilling out of huts, shacks, and makeshift comedy clubs. The sound of laughter everywhere, led by young rebel heroes of a new stand up insurgency who were slaying eager audiences with the truth.
Stand up Plant followed jokes into the lives of the joke tellers - fearless members of an exploding global comedy underground who are raising their voices, making people laugh and making people think.
Opinion: There is nothing inherently funny about hunger, poverty an disease. But there is something powerful - affirming about laughing in the face of hardship. Humor is humanity's antibody to defeat, and it is as much about survivals the air we breathe.
Recommendation: Why not do a screening in your city on May 14? The film does not prescribe solutions to poverty, so be prepared to speak with your audience and bridge the solutions and call to action to support US foreign aid and aid transparency.
