Ian & Curt (photo courtesy of Mosaic Films Incorporated)

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. The Boston Globe says it is “Enormously Entertaining.”

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.

Following the trail of high fructose corn syrup, Ian and Curt attempt to make a home-cooked batch of the sweetener in their kitchen. But their investigation of America’s most ubiquitous ingredient turns serious when they follow soda to its consumption in Brooklyn. Here, Type II diabetes is ravaging the community, and America’s addiction to corny sweets is to blame.

The breadth of the problem is now clear: the American food system is built on the abundance of corn, an abundance perpetuated by a subsidy system that pays farmers to maximize production.

The Austin Chronicle says, “King Corn is as relevant as Super Size Me and as important as An Inconvenient Truth.”

To visit the documentary’s official web site & see where it’s playing go to: King Corn

Thanks Sue!