Following up on their Peabody Award winning documentary, "King Corn", the film makers, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, returned to the heartland on a new mission, to begin an investigation of the downstream environmental impact of their little acre of Iowa corn.

In a canoe, they paddled from Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico, seeing for themselves the bigger world their little acre affected, knowing that half of Iowa's top soil has washed downstream and that, with it, fertilizer run-off has created a toxic "Dead Zone" in the Gulf. 

Join us for this FSNYC fundraiser and screening of "Big River." We'll start with a networking cocktail hour, featuring craft beers, New York State wines, and local snacks, continue on to the screening, and conclude with a discussion among panel members, film makers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis and others.