Aloha!!! We worked out a deal with Maui Film Festival and it will be a benefit for Ma'a. Here is the content of the flier from www.mauifilmfestval.com site on the showing of King Corn on Feb 20th. Hope to see everyone there!!!!


Wednesday, February 20, Castle Theater, MACC, Kahului
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best 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. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Unrated. 88 min.

Shows are at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.




A BENEFIT FOR MAUI ALOHA AINA
Special Guest Appearance by Charles "Chuck" Walters ACRES USA and Ian Cheney the films co-star/producer.

Maui Aloha Aina Association is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, whose mission is "to promote life nurturing practices for the body and the soil through education and outreach". Ma'a has been holding outdoor educational conferences every year since 2001 exploring the relationship of the body to the soil and how it effects our well being. The vision Ma'a holds for Maui Agriculture values agricultural diversity above the ground and bio diversity below the ground, growing nutrient dense foods to sustain a healthy community. Visit www.MauiAlohaAina.org for more information

SPECIAL GUESTS PRESENTING A Q&A INCLUDE
Ian Cheney co-created and stars in King Corn, a Mosaic Films-ITVS co-production released theatrically in the fall of 2007. Since finishing King Corn, Ian has gone on to direct The Greening of Southie, a feature documentary about the workers behind Boston's first green building, which will be broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel on Earth Day, 2008, and subsequently on Discovery Worldwide.

Charles Walters is the founder and executive editor of Acres U.S.A. He has authored thousands of articles on the technologies of eco-agriculture and is author or co-author of many works on the subject, including Eco-Farm, Weeds -- Control Without Poisons, Reproduction and Animal Health, A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line, Neal Kinsey's Hands-On Agronomy, Mainline Farming for Century 21, The Carbon Connection, The Carbon Cycle, Minerals of the Genetic Code and others. A leading proponent of raw material economics, he served as president of NORM and has authored books on economics.