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King Corn - A Documentary Film
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 6:30 PM @ LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - One acre of
corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside -
and the American diet. 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 skeptical 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. The 80-minute film will be followed by a discussion with Curt Ellis
and filmmaker Aaron Woolf.

King Corn - Panel Discussion
Wed, 07 Nov 2007, 8:00 PM @ LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - Curt Ellis
and filmmaker Aaron Woolf will discuss King Corn, Woolf's documentary that
follows college friends Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney as they grow a bumper crop
of America's most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa
soil, and then try to follow it through the food system. The panel
discussion follows a screening of the 80-minute film at 6:30 pm in the
LeBaron Hall Auditorium.



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Danielle Wain
Dept. of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering
497 Town Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50014
515-294-6346
wain at iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~wain