Dinner and a Movie with King Corn Director Aaron Woolf

For Immediate Release: 3/17/08
Contact Person: Shelby Hammond, 223-7222, shelby@ruralvermont.org

DINNER AND A MOVIE WITH KING CORN DIRECTOR AARON WOOLF:
Rural Vermont Hosts Event to Benefit Farmer Advocacy Work

Rural Vermont is partnering with the Green Mountain Film Festival (GMFF) and That’s Life Soup to host a unique opportunity for film buffs and food advocates to enjoy “Dinner and a Movie” with King Corn director Aaron Woolf on Saturday, March 29th. Dinner will be at That’s Life Soup on Elm Street in Montpelier at 5 pm, and will be followed by the last GMFF screening of King Corn at 6:30 pm at City Hall on Main Street in Montpelier.

Tickets for this benefit event are $35 for dinner only, or $40 for dinner and the movie. A limited number of tickets will be sold, and they are only available through Rural Vermont by calling (802) 223 – 7222. Order yours today! All proceeds to benefit Rural Vermont, a nonprofit advocacy group for family farmers.

King Corn documents the story of two friends who journey from Boston to Iowa to plant, tend, and harvest one acre of corn, and then watch as it travels from their field into the industrial food supply. The Washington Post hails King Corn as “taking what could be a tiresome agri-civics lesson and delivering a lively, funny, sad and even poetic treatise on the reality behind America's cherished self-image as the breadbasket of the world.”

Bring some food for thought to this intimate dinner party with Aaron Woolf, featuring some of the area’s finest locally sourced, creative cuisine prepared by That’s Life Soup’s chef-owner Pam Roots. Naturally, the first course will be Corn Chowder - no corn syrup added!

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to spend the evening with King Corn director Aaron Woolf, while supporting Rural Vermont, an organization committed to strengthening local food systems and consumer-farmer relationships.

Rural Vermont is a nonprofit advocacy group founded by farmers in 1985 that advocates, activates, and educates for living soils, thriving farms, and healthy communities. For more information, contact Rural Vermont at 223-7222 or visit www.ruralvermont.org.

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