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The
Queen Anne Movie Guild and the Washington State Food and Nutrition
Council are joining to present a free showing of the acclaimed
independent documentary, “King Corn”, on Saturday,
April 12th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Queen
Anne Manor, 100 Crockett St., located at the top
of Queen Anne in Seattle. Donations will be accepted to help
offset costs. Refreshments will be available with a discussion
following the film.
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 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 friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, 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.
For more event and sponsor information, please see the council’s
website at www.wsfnc.org
and the guild’s website at www.queenannemovieguild.org.
Information about the documentary can be found at www.kingcorn.net.
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