"King Corn," a feature length documentary on the reality behind one of America's most pervasive cash crops, will be presented at Muncie Civic Theatre on Saturday, February 28th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $7.00 and all proceeds will benefit Muncie Civic Theatre. Tickets are available by calling 288-PLAY to purchase over the phone or at the box office; Tuesday-Friday from 1-6pm. Tickets will also be available at the door. Seating is general admission.
This film is presented by The Downtown Farm Stand, a local organic food store, The Blue Bottle Coffee Shop, Harvest Moon Film Festival, and Muncie Civic Theatre. Concessions will be available. The Blue Bottle will be offering coffee and other treats and the Downtown Farm Stand will offer organic popcorn and soda sweetened with sugar instead of corn syrup.
King Corn chronicles filmmakers and best friends, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, as they move to Iowa to grow a one acre bumper crop of corn using genetically modified seed, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides. They followed their corn into the food chain and what they found raises some troubling questions about America's most productive, most subsidized grain. The story of the one acre of corn quickly became a story about soil, water, energy, history, genetic modification, and our most basic foods. The film illustrates how subsidizing bumper crops of corn can in-turn fuel our food system with high fructose corn syrup and fatty, corn-fed beef.
Since its release in 2007 the film has been featured on PBS, won many awards including the North American Association for Environmental Education, and has been featured at film festivals across the United States and abroad.
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