Truck Farm
SESSION 3: Thursday, October 13th, 7-10pm, Orpheum Theater – Environmental Focus with Panel
Truck Farm
USA, 2010, 48 min.
Directors: Ian Cheney
Producers: Curt Ellis
A whimsical, musical documentary about the quirky world of urban agriculture. After filmmaker Ian Cheney plants a garden in the back of his pickup truck, he sets out to explore the rooftops, barges and windows that represent New York City’s newest edible oases. Featuring time machines, Victorian dancers, physicists, nutritionist Marion Nestle, chef Dan Barber, and explorer Henry Hudson, “Truck Farm” ponders the future of urban farming, and to consider whether sustainability needs a dose of fun and whimsy to be truly sustainable.
Ian Cheney runs Wicked Delicate, a documentary film and advocacy project in Brooklyn. He co-created and starred in the Peabody-winning PBS documentary King Corn, directed the Sundance Channel documentary The Greening of Southie and co-produced the Planet Green documentary Big River. Ian earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale University, where he helped create the Yale Sustainable Food Project. With longtime collaborator Curt Ellis, Ian is a founder of FoodCorps, a new national school garden program launching in August, 2011. They deliver frequent talks on agriculture and the environment. Ian’s newest feature documentary, The City Dark, is premiering in competition at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival.
Simon Beins is a Brooklyn-based performer and composer who tours regularly throughout the US and Europe and has released records on both continents. With his band the Wowz, he composed the scores for the Peabody Award-winning King Corn (2007), Kansas vs. Darwin (2007), and Big River (2009). His music also appears in the Zach Galifianakis feature film It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010). In addition to co-writing and scoring Truck Farm, Simon scored the forthcoming feature documentary The City Dark.
Awards:
Jury Honorable Mention – Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Jury Award and Audience Award – Green Film Festival in Seoul
Best Green Film – Cape Fear Independent Film Festival
Most Uplifting Film – Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival
Official Selection – Mountainfilm in Telluride, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital