Wednesday, February 20, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.     
KING CORN
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Unrated. 88 min.

Live Music: The Rio Thing - Smooth Bossa Nova

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A BENEFIT FOR 'MAUI ALOHA AINA ASSOCIATION
Maui Aloha Aina Association is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, whose mission is "to promote life nurturing practices for the body and the soil through education and outreach". Ma'a has been holding outdoor educational conferences every year since 2001 exploring the relationship of the body to the soil and how it effects our well being. Its vision of Maui Agriculture values agricultural diversity above the ground and bio diversity below the ground, growing nutrient dense foods to sustain a healthy community. Visit www.MauiAlohaAina.org for more information

SPECIAL GUESTS PRESENTING A Q&A INCLUDE
Ian Cheney co-created and stars in King Corn, a Mosaic Films-ITVS co-production released theatrically in the fall of 2007. Since finishing King Corn, Ian has gone on to direct The Greening of Southie, a feature documentary about the workers behind Boston's first green building, which will be broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel on Earth Day, 2008, and subsequently on Discovery Worldwide.

Charles Walters is the founder and executive editor of Acres U.S.A. He has authored thousands of articles on the technologies of eco-agriculture and is author or co-author of many works on the subject, including Eco-Farm, Weeds -- Control Without Poisons, Reproduction and Animal Health, A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line, Neal Kinsey's Hands-On Agronomy, Mainline Farming for Century 21, The Carbon Connection, The Carbon Cycle, Minerals of the Genetic Code and others. A leading proponent of raw material economics, he served as president of NORM and has authored books on economics.

SUNDAY, February 24, at 3:00, 5:00 and 7:30 p.m   
STEEP
"Without Risk, No Adventure". This is the exhilarating adrenaline junkies' dream documentary detailing the story of the 35 year history of extreme big mountain skiing as old by its earliest pioneers and current superstars. Shot in spectacular High Definition video and 35mm film in Alaska, Wyoming, Canada, Chamonix in France and Iceland, this doc explores the pursuit of "The Perfect Moment" on skis. Men's Journal raved: "A Visually Jaw-Dropping Film!" and Ski World added" "A Landmark Documentary!" Rated PG. 92 min. Special Show at 3:00pm plus shows at 5:00pm and 7:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: Kids 12 & Under, Special Price - $6 per keiki.

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Wednesday, February 27, at 5 and 7:30 p.m   
LUST, CAUTION
Two-time Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has perfectly captured the details, textures, sights and sounds of a China caught between East and West, occupied by an ancient enemy and quaking on the eve of an earth-shaking revolution in this rich, beautifully detailed and stunningly startling erotic espionage thriller set in Shanghai in 1942 about the fate of an ordinary woman’s heart, starring Asian cinema icon Tony Leung and newcomer Tang Wei. "Ang Lee is a true master, and his potently erotic and suspenseful drama casts a spell you won't want to break" raved Rolling Stone. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Rated NC-17 for explicit sexuality. 157 min. (Focus Features)

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