Screening of “King Corn”
Fri. Aug 22, 2008 at 7:00pm
KING CORN (90 minutes, 2007)is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
In KING CORN, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm.
Features Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and Earl Butz, former US Secretary of Agriculture
“Gorgeously filmed in digital video and Super-8, using clever stop-motion corn kernel animation and a lyrical score by the “anti-folk” band the WoWz, “King Corn” takes what could be a tiresome agri-civics lesson and delivers a lively, funny, sad and even poetic treatise on the reality behind America’s cherished self-image as the breadbasket of the world…It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald’s or your very own refrigerator.” - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
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Contact: Marcie Gardner
Contact Phone: 518-392-3353
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Location: Chatham Real Food Market
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