Big River

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2009 FESTIVAL
30 min.
Filmmakers: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis.
In this follow-up to King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis take to to Iowa’s rivers , determined to find out what their little acre of corn has done to the big river downstream. What they find rises troubling questions about America’s embrace of industrial agriculture: drinking water contaminated with pesticides and fertilizer, a hypoxic “dead zone” on the Gulf of Mexico, ad topsoil erosion that threatens our future ability to grow food.