Posts Tagged ‘documentary film’

Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney talk about Truck Farm (video)

Well they’ve done it again. The two filmmakers that brought us King Corn, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, have come together to create another film that covers an important subject about how do we grow fresh, local food in dense urban environments, with a good deal of fun and quirkiness folded in: Truck Farm. The [...]

WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, The Trailer (video)

WWOOF! The Movie” is about a collective of organizations WWOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

FOOD NEWS: Part 2: A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Curt Ellis

Continuing the conversation, Curt Ellis shares his story about the pervasiveness of corn in our daily foods. We learn that for the first time in human history, the problem of obesity is associated with poverty, not affluence. The processed ingredients that saturate the market with cheap food products is the chief culprit. Related: Cooking Up [...]

A Conversation with ‘King Corn’ Filmmaker Curt Ellis

Part 1; You can almost hear the voice of Gomer Pyle: “Surprise,” “Surprise,” “Surprise”! Of course, the big surprise may be on all of us. The documentary “King Corn” reveals the often unseen, and unreflected world of industrial food manufacturing, in this case, as it relates to the use and production of corn. The surprise [...]