KING CORN Releases on DVD

The Boston Globe called director Aaron Woolf's King Corn "a moral, socio-economic odyssey through the American food system."  This very entertaining and eye-opening doc feature has its DVD release tomorrow.

We follow best friends (and the film's co-producers), Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, as they move to the heartland of the US to learn where their food comes from.  They plant and grow a huge crop of corn on just one acre using genetically modified seeds and strong herbicides.  As they track their product through the food system--traveling through 30 states and Mexico--what they find raises important questions about how we eat and about how we farm.

Last year, the film had its domestic premiere at South by Southwest and its international one at Hot Docs one month later.  Last September, they had a theatrical release in New York at the Cinema Village and this month the film had its broadcast premiere on PBS' Independent Lens.  King Corn is also programmed into the current season of the Sundance Channel's The Green as one of thirteen featured docs.  Click here to order your very own copy.