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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

November 2007

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Theatrical
Premiere
with writer/actor Ian Cheney

KING CORN

How exactly does corn get from the cob and into our McDonald's happy meals? That's what two east coast college friends, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, hope to learn when they move to Iowa to grow, harvest and track an acre of corn. What starts as a simple experiment in how the food chain operates, plunges the duo into a world of skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers and powerful herbicides. Ultimately Cheney and Ellis succeed in planting and growing a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain grown in Iowa soil, but when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises disturbing questions about how we eat and how we farm. Taking up where Super Size Me left off, this insightful and commanding look into the use of corn - from grain feed for cattle to the main ingredient in soda sweetener - sheds light on America's addiction to frugality where cheap food and cheap production may be costing us our health.

Directed by Aaron Woolf, U.S.A., 2006, 35mm, 92 mins.

A Cinechat Event: Ian Cheney will be here in person after the 7 pm & before the 9 pm screening on Fri., Nov. 9.

Official site     New York Times     Village Voice     Chicago Tribune     Chicago Reader        

Showtimes:
Fri., Nov. 9 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Nov. 10-11 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Nov. 12-15 at 7 & 9 pm



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