King Corn
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McGill University (Montreal)
Tuesday February 9, 2010
Screening begins 20h00
Venue: Leacock 219 - Downtown McGill campus
King Corn
You are what you eat.
Aaron Woolf / USA / 2007 / 88 min
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 Chesney 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, nitrogen fertilizers 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.
Trailer
Credits
Directed by
Aaron Woolf
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Ian Cheney writer
Curtis Ellis writer
Jeffrey K. Miller writer
Aaron Woolf writer
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Earl L. Butz ... Himself (as Earl Butz)
Ian Cheney ... Himself
Curt Ellis ... Himself
Produced by
Ian Cheney .... co-producer
Curt Ellis .... co-producer
Curtis Ellis .... co-producer
Aaron Woolf .... producer
Cinematography by
Ian Cheney
Sam Cullman
Aaron G. Woolf (as Aaron Woolf)
Film Editing by
Jeffrey K. Miller
Sound Department
Peter Levin .... sound re-recording mixer
Camera and Electrical Department
Taylor Gentry .... additional camerawork
Robert Hurst .... additional camerawork
Taylor Krauss .... additional camerawork
Editorial Department
Elliot Diviney .... assistant editor
Taylor Gentry .... assistant editor
Awards & Festivals
Festivals:
Hot Docs Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival
Film site & Reviews
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