Tag Results for "agriculture"
by Monteith McCollum
Premiere: July 9, 2002
Welcome to the American Midwest, land of corn and visionary farmers like Milford Beeghly. Hybrid combines interviews, original animation and rare dry wit to create a meditative portrait of the energetic Beeghly.
by Eren McGinnis, Christine Fugate
Premiere: June 19, 1998
Can a good person grow tobacco? As the cigarette war rages, small American tobacco farmers have been the often overlooked casualties. Dynamic filmmaking duo Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate travel across Kentucky to meet the families who have been growing this crop for generations, as they face the consequences of this fuming controversy in their own backyards.
by Helen De Michiel
Premiere: July 9, 1991
The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, Turn Here Sweet Corn searches for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers.