King Corn New York Premiere Tonight
Our friend, Ian Cheney’s, new documentary King Corn is premiering tonight at Cinema Village. If you liked Supersize Me and Fast Food Nation, King Corn will be right up your alley. The Boston Globe calls it “enormously entertaining” and The New York Times featured it yesterday here.
Where: Cinema Village
When: Opens tonight. The film is only scheduled to be at Cinema Village for four days, unless enough people go to see this important film. Help to extend the run and buy your ticket now.
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, IanCheney 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 questions about how we eat–and how we farm
