15th
ANNUAL
JAMES RIVER
FILM FESTIVAL
Virginia’s Festival for the Independent-Minded |
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 KING CORN (2007, 90 min.)
Sponsored by The Biggest Picture
7:30 p.m., The Firehouse Theatre
FREE
In this film by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis (w/score by WoWz), two East Coast college roommates (Cheney and Ellis) move to the Iowa heartland to learn more where our food comes from and the processes it goes through before it arrives. With neighbors, genetically altered seeds and herbicides they grow a one acre bumper crop but what they find along the way will have you thinking twice about the nation’s favorite kernel. King Corn reviewed: “It reveals a food system that is not serving its citizen eaters well.” – Frederick Kirschenmann, Agriculturist. “King Corn is as relevant as Super Size Me and as important as An Inconvenient Truth in the recent rash of documentaries that challenge our perception of life in America.” – Austin Chronicle. |
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