King Corn
A feature documentary by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney

When: January 14-17, 2008

Where: THE HARRIS THEATER
(Presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers Group)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

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 it "...An enormously entertaining moral and socio-economic odyssey (and statistical bonanza) through the American food industry." The Austin Chronicle calls it "...As relevant as Supersize Me and as An Inconvenient Truth in the recent rash of documentaries about that challenge our perceptions of daily life in America." And The Village Voice says King Corn is "as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines."

Visit www.kingcorn.net

Watch the trailer at http://www.kingcorn.net/pages/video_high2.htm

Check out the King Corn Blog at www.kingcorn.net/blog