Have you been wondering why Americans are so overweight? Or why certain foods are so cheap? Have you heard our average life expectancy is headed down, not up? Two college friends set out with director Aaron Woolf in search of answers to these questions and were surprised by what they discovered. You will be too as this film follows a crop of corn from seed to your dinner plate.
Screening will be followed by a discussion with Suzanne Welander – Communications and Outreach Director, GEORGIA ORGANICS and Joel Kimmons, PhD – Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, CDC.
WHO: Independent Lens, ITVS, Decatur Library, Hands On Atlanta, Urban Media Makers
WHEN: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
7:00-9:00 PM
WHERE:
2007-2008 SEASON SCHEDULE
March 25 KING CORN – Recent college grads plant a single acre of corn and follow its journey to America’s tables
April 22 A DREAM IN DOUBT – America’s first post-9/11 hate crime murder, as told through the eyes of his brother
May 20 NEW YEAR BABY – A filmmaker journey’s to Cambodia in search of the truth regarding her family’s history
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