King Corn
- Monday, March 24 4:00 pm
- Tuesday, March 25 8:30 pm
- Saturday, March 29 6:30 pm
City Hall Arts Center
Saturday, March 29 at 6:30 pm SOLD OUT
America’s fast-food empire is fueled by a secret ingredient: corn. High fructose corn syrup makes the sodas sweet, corn-fed beef makes the burgers fat, and corn oil crisps the fries. As college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis find out, their junk food generation has grown up eating so much corn that if you test their hair, it’s actually made of the stuff. In a tiny town in the middle of Iowa, Ian and Curt plant and grow an acre of America’s most powerful crop and attempt to follow its fate as food. What they find is alternately hilarious and horrifying: genetically modified seeds and home-brewed corn syrup, a bumper crop of obesity and diabetes, and a government paying farmers to grow what’s making us sick. Chicago Tribune: “A breezy diary from a pair of first-time farmers, as well as a wry rebuke to a nation devoted to eating cheaply but not necessarily well, King Corn makes its points without much finger-wagging.” Sponsored by Hunger Mountain Coop. Community Partners: Rural Vermont, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Food Works, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, Mad River Localvore. Post-film event: Director Aaron Woolf will appear at the Saturday, March 29, show. Rated PG, 88 minutes. Film website
Posted in 2008 Films & Events