Interesting New Film about Food Production (from Sustainable Table)

King Corn Coming to a Theatre Near You

We're excited to announce the opening of a new film – King Corn, which premiered on October 12th at Cinema Village in New York City.  Please see below for other cities the film will play in as well as much more information on the film – or visit www.kingcorn.net to see if any new places have been added.
 
King Corn is an entertaining feature documentary about two friends that farm an acre of corn in Iowa in an attempt to learn where corn goes once grown and how it affects us.  The movie is a serious look at our farm system but is done with humor and in a way that's entertaining and engaging.  If you aren't near a theater that's showing the film, check their website for information on purchasing a DVD.
 
KING CORN
www.kingcorn.net
 
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.
 
 
Theater Calendar
(Last updated September 24, 2007. More dates to come!)
 
New York - Cinema Village, opening October 12 http://www.cinemavillage.com
 
Washington, DC - E Street Cinema, opening October 19 http://www.landmarktheatres.com/
 
Boston - Coolidge Corner Theater, opening October 26 http://www.coolidge.org/
 
Los Angeles – Laemmle Music Hall, opening October 26 http://www.laemmle.com/
 
San Francisco - Red Vic Movie House, opening November 2 http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/
 
Berkeley  - Shattuck Theater, opening November 2 http://www.landmarktheatres.com/
 
Austin, Texas – Alamo Drafthouse Theater, November 2-8 www.drafthouse.com
 
Portland – Hollywood Theater, opening November 9 http://www.hollywoodtheatre.org
 
Pleasantville, New York – Jacob Burns Film Center, November 17 & 21 www.burnsfilmcenter.org
 
Columbia, Missouri - Ragtag Cinema, opening November, Date TBA http://www.ragtagfilm.com/
 

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