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Oct. 12: KING CORN Premieres in New York City

BALCONY RELEASING presents KING CORN, a feature documentary by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney

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 KING CORN, "Just damningly descriptive enough to leave you distrustful of anything on your plate." And THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE says, "KING CORN is as relevant as Super Size Me and as important as An Inconvenient Truth in the recent rash of documentaries that challenge our perception of daily life in America."


KING CORN PREMIERES in NEW YORK CITY on OCTOBER 12!
CINEMA VILLAGE
22 E. 12th Street
New York City
www.cinemavillage.com

Starts10/12/2007
Ends10/12/2007
IssuesEnvironment, Agriculture, Environmental Justice, Environmental Preservation, Sustainable Agriculture
Homepagewww.kingcorn.net
Contactscreenings@kingcorn.net

Posted on October 5, 2007 in Film / Screening by jengallardo