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King Corn is tickled to report its nomination for an Environmental Media Award: the eco-world’s very green answer to Hollywood’s entertainment awards.

EMA film nominees are recognized for their attempts — either subtle or grand — to spread the word on environmental and ecological issues through film. Our fellow film nominees include Fast Food Nation and Arctic Tale, and it’s needless to say that we’re proud, and more than a little humbled, to be among them.

Check out Hollywood’s laudable efforts to go green here, and find out what you can do to make your own filmmaking friendly to the environment.

At his talk last week at Portland, Oregon’s City Club, Representative Earl Blumenauer championed King Corn as part of his “Why the Farm Bill Matters” talk, calling the film “tremendous…a marvelous story in terms of how we got to where we are.”

Learn more about Blumenauer’s support of the Food and Farm Bill of Rights, and why The Farm Bill really, really matters.

The Sierra Club blogs a King Corn review today, calling us “lighthearted” and “enlightening” and nestling us among a bevy of the season’s most interesting new releases, both in print and on film. It’s possible we’ve never felt so green. Read more here.

King Corn soundtrack band The WoWz hits Europe this week, but they get a little love back home, too. Indie Surfer profiles the band here, calling them “prolific” and “addictive”, “rebelliously cherubic” and (this is our favorite) “lovingly groped.”

Curious?

Check out The WoWz on their site, and stay tuned for their King Corn soundtrack and music video at www.kingcorn.net this winter.

Sustainable Table’s daily blog names King Corn its Pick of the Week for the second time this year, serving up praise by the plate-full!

Read the Sustainable Table review here, and then mosey over to The Meatrix to watch a little something they have to show us about America’s food system. Yikes.

King Corn ended the weekend with a screening at Boston’s Muddy River Film Series, at The Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. Coolidge Corner theater-goers keep your eyes peeled: King Corn returns for a full run at the cinema on October 19th!

King Corn returned to its old editing haunts at the Old American Can Factory this weekend, showing a New York City sneak preview of the film in Brooklyn as part of Rooftop Films 2007.

The crowds were great, and the sunset superb…and King Corn was glad for a little chance to walk down memory lane. Or at least Fourth Street.