KING CORN March 16, 2008

Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college, move home to their great-grandfathers. 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 is that the fat of the land is fattening us up, and their journey raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm.

Q&A after screening with Katherine Ozer, Executive Director of NFFC; Marsha Weiner, Slow Food DC; and Bernadine Prince, FRESHFARM Markets.

ITVS Community Cinema screening of KING CORN is co-presented with WETA-TV 26 in partnership with Busboys and Poets and the Social Action Leadership School for Activists. Community partners: FRESHFARM Markets, National Family Farm Coalition, and Slow Food DC.

Visit www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn.Tickets: http://www.communitycinema-dc.org

Official Website: https://spongecell.com/event_page/view/588689