Films with: Ellis, Curt

Big river a King Corn companion ; King Corn /

King Corn tells the story of two college friends from Boston, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, who move to Iowa to plant an acre of corn and follow their harvest into the food system. In Big River, they investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream.

DVD 7759

Greening of Southie

"The story of [The Macallen Building,] Boston's first LEED certified residential 'green' building, and the people that made it possible"--Container.

DVD 9722

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"--Container.

DVD 5377