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Jen
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Jennifer
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 Posted - Dec 01 2007 : 9:03:17 PM
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King Corn 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. The movie is in select theaters across the U.S. View the trailer, get the DVD, or find a showing near you by clicking here:
http://www.kingcorn.net/
Jen
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The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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1384 Posts |
Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 2:57:19 PM
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For those of you in the Moscow area...
Balcony Releasing Presents
KING CORN
A feature documentary by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney
Opening in Moscow, ID
March 1 and 2
KENWORTHY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
508 South Main Street
208-882-4127
http://www.kenworthy.org/
King Corn tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, 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-ubiquitous 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.
The Boston Globe calls it "...An enormously entertaining moral and socio-economic odyssey (and statistical bonanza) through the American food industry." The Austin Chronicle calls it "...As relevant as Supersize Me and as An Inconvenient Truth in the recent rash of documentaries about that challenge our perceptions of daily life in America." And The Village Voice says King Corn is "as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines."
Visit www.kingcorn.net
Watch the trailer at http://www.kingcorn.net/pages/video_high2.htm
Check out the King Corn Blog at www.kingcorn.net/blog
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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