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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Truck Farm with Filmmaker Ian Cheney
DESCRIPTION: Truck Farm is a whimsical, musical documentary about the quirky world of urban agriculture. After filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn) plants a garden in the back of his pickup truck, he and the Truck Farm set out to explore the rooftops, barges and windows that represent New York City’s newest edible oases. Can these urban farmers feed a city? Can the old Dodge and its crops survive the winter? Blending serious exposition with serious silliness, Truck Farm entreats viewers to ponder 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. Reception to follow. Seating is limited. To RSVP, please email: artandantiquities@parks.nyc.gov In conjunction with the exhibition A Window on Nature: Art of Asuka Hishiki In the Arsenal Gallery, April 26 – June 6, 2012 
LOCATION:Arsenal (in Central Park)
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