King Corn
A film by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, and Ian Cheney

screening at Jengo's Playhouse, 815 Princess Street
Thursday, January 3 @ 7:30pm
Friday, January 4 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, January 5 @ 7:30pm

$5 tickets, Cucalorus Members free

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

Almost everything Americans eat contains corn: high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods which are the staples of our modern diet. Ready for an adventure and alarmed by the signs of their generation's bulging waistlines, college friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are on a mission: they will plant an acre of corn, follow their harvest into the world, and attempt to understand what they - and all of us - are really made of.

The breadth of the problem soon becomes clear: the American food system is built on the abundance of corn, an abundance perpetuated by the subsidy system that pays farmers to maximize production. But how far will they go to get the best yield? From injecting ammonia fertilizer into the ground to buying genetically modified seed, their journey leads them to question the troubling ways that we farm and eat.

Click here for more information on the film.