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INDEPENDENT LENS | Filmocracy Winner | PBS

Duration: 01:36

Announcing the winner of the Independent Lens Filmocracy Mashup Contest: "Corn King Takes Over the World" by Kylee Darcy

If you are what you eat, what are you made of? That was the question posed to Filmocracy contestants. Kylee created her own hand-drawn animation and mixed it up on Eyespot with clips from KING CORN and Getty Images to make a bold and colorful statement about the politics of food.

The PBS Independent Lens presentation of KING CORN provided the backdrop for the first inaugural Filmocracy mashup contest. KING CORN, is an is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast food nation. Find out more at: www.pbs.org/filmocracy

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Post Date: June 23, 2008