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King CornSaturday February 23, 2008 Collins Hall, Bowen Island |
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We are very excited about our February screening. King Corn is a wonderfully entertaining and enlightening documentary about a cornerstone of the North American diet: feed corn (no we're not talking about Chilliwack Peaches and Cream here). AND we are extremely fortunate to have two guests -- filmmaker/co-lead Curt Ellis (on the right of the photograph) and Outreach Producer Caitlin Boyle -- with us from Portland, Oregon to take part in our movie night discussions. 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. King Corn manages to win us over in part because it does not announce its outrage through a bullhorn. Instead, this soft-spoken movie directed by newcomer Aaron Woolf gets its point across by settling in among its rural Iowa subjects and following the lead of its goofy everyman co-producers/stars, Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis -- The Boston Globe Visit www.bowenfilm.com to view a trailer of the film and to see a list of further reading material. | |
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