Film Screening at Laney: King Corn
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
The film makers chomp on corn never meant to be eaten by humans.
On Wednesday night at Laney College, the Sustainability Committee hosts a screening of the film King Corn, telling the story of America’s biggest agriculture product. Approximately 40 people, mainly students, attended the screening.
“Students showed up for the extra-credit, but they got a lot more out of it than that,” said Amy Bohorquez, a Biology instructor at Laney College who helped produced the film series this semester. The series also screened other important documentaries such as The Waterfront and The Power of Community. Each of these films is available in the Laney library for instructors to use in their classes or community events.
In King Corn, two 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. They try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, and find some uses for corn only a industry can imagine.