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Update #2: 3 Hours Left... Thank You.
Hey Truck Farmers,
Our Kickstarter campaign closes in three hours, and -- thanks to you -- we made it.
We're humbled by the support you've shown us -- family, friends, and strangers alike. Because of your generosity, we'll now be able to finish the Truck Farm documentary film, and this fall we'll hit the road with a new story to tell: about how creative gardeners across this city are remaking New York as a greener, healthier, more magical place. We're eager to share the Truck Farm film with you -- its co-creators -- and hope you'll join us at a screening or a farm-fresh picnic sometime soon.
If you get a chance to swing by www.truck-farm.com, you can see the entries to our Wicked Delicate Garden Contest, a competition to see which student group could grow food in the most creative place. There are 65 entries under consideration by our judges -- Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Marion Nestle -- and we expect to announce the winners next week. From shoes to books to CPUs, the sites for these gardens are all pretty fabulous, and we're relieved that despite the dozens of third-graders that threatened to submit a Toilet Farm, none of them followed through on that particular scheme.
We can't thank you enough for your support of the art and advocacy we're trying to brew up in the back of the Dodge; it's because of you that we're able to keep the old half-ton on the road.
Thank you.
Ian + Curt
Update #1: A'right! Truck Farm's 1% of the way there!
Hey All -
Truck Farm is 1% of the way toward our fundraising goal on Kickstarter. It may not sound like much, but then again -- we haven't told anyone our project's live yet! If you found us and donated already, you're the REAL early adopters. Thank you!! Hope you'll tell your friends and help get the word out.
With gratitude,
Curt + Ian
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 10, 2010.
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It's startin' to feel like a PBS pledge drive around here! Contribute $250 or more to Truck Farm and you get the trucker hat, the signed Truck Farm DVD, and copies of King Corn, Greening of Southie, and Big River.
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Okay, you're serious about this. Thanks. We're very grateful. You get all the hats and discs you can shake a stick at (or at least a couple of each). You also get our most coveted prize: an outdoor screening of the Truck Farm film, displayed on our mobile screen from the Truck's own under-hood projector. Filmmakers will attend, and Truck Farm salad will be enjoyed by all. Hate to say it, but you gotta be within a 4-hour drive of Brooklyn to collect this prize.
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Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis run the Brooklyn-based documentary and advocacy organization Wicked Delicate.
Ian and Curt graduated from Yale College in 2002, where they helped launch the Yale Sustainable Food Project and the freshman orientation program Harvest.
After college they turned to film, moving to Iowa to farm an acre of industrial corn, homebrew high-fructose corn syrup, and create the Mosaic Films documentary King Corn. The film showed in theaters in 60 cities, aired nationally on PBS, and won a Peabody Award.
Ian and Curt next created The Greening of Southie, a documentary about the men and women behind Boston’s first green building. That film was released in theaters, broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel, shown in union halls around the country, and featured on Good Morning America, NPR, and in The New Yorker magazine.
In 2009, Ian and Curt launched Big River, a 30-minute documentary about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture, created under Curt's Food and Society Fellowship with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
They have served as jurors for Wisconsin International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and BendFilm, and have spoken at more than 100 college and corporate campuses from California to Qatar. They are now working to start a national AmeriCorps school garden and Farm to School service program, FoodCorps.
