King Corn
With Q&A featuring filmmaker Ian Cheney
One acre of corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside—and the American diet. 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 skeptical neighbors, genetically-modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, 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. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Aaron Woolf and featuring an original soundtrack by The Wowz. KING CORN is an entertaining and provocative new look at the American foodscape.
dirs. Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, 1h32m
Ticket Price: $9.75/$6.75 members