Mad City Chickens heading back to Wheatsfield Co-op

Our Mad City Chickens documentary played last year at the Wheatsfield Food Cooperative in Ames, Iowa, and on April 20th, it will screen again! Film starts at 7:00 pm,  413 Northwestern Ave.

Mad City Chickens to Show at Co-op in Ames, IA

Public Screening of Mad City Chickens in Ames, Iowa. Presented by the Wheatsfield Cooperative. February 11th, 7:00 pm. The documentary will show at the Co-op (East Space), 413 Northwestern Ave.

"Chickens" Returns to Iowa

Mad City Chickens will be showing in Ames, IA on May 16th as part of the Other Voices/Other Views film series. The public screening is presented by the Alliance for Global Justice-Ames. Film starts at 7:00 pm, Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Ave.

Mad City Chickens Returns to Iowa City

~April 25th Iowa City, Iowa - Public Screening presented by University of Iowa Museum of Natural History - 2:00pm U of I Museum of Natural History, Macbride Hall.

Mad City Chickens Screens in Decorah, IA Tomorrow!

Our film returns to Iowa this weekend for the Oneota Film Festival! Joined by a host of other sustainability docs and shorts including King Corn and The World According to Monsanto, Mad City Chickens will screen 9:00am January 23rd in Decorah.

Chickens are like dogs: Iowa City Press

At our recent screening of Mad City Chickens in Iowa City, among the viewers in the audience was a reporter from the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Columnist Jennifer Hemmingsen wrote an article in the Gazette entitled, Chickens like the dog next door.

Also in the audience was IC council member Amy Correia. “I wasn’t really sure before going, but the movie made me think it’s a definite possibility,” Correia later said. She’ll be bringing up the idea to the council.

Iowa Chicken Tour: It is Heaven!

Weekends like this are what make all the long arduous filmmaking hours worth it.

Our whirlwind tour into Iowa with the Mad City Chickens documentary was just great fun! With public screenings in Iowa City on Saturday and Cedar Rapids on Sunday, we met wonderful people, ate delicious organic food and had fantastic conversations about chickens, gardens, and the urban sustainability movement.

It's what dreams are made of!

On Saturday night, we stayed with our wonderful Iowa City hosts, Cam, Stacey and their friend Seth.





















New Pioneer Food Co-op in Iowa City

Sponsor: Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids

Is this Heaven? Mad City Chickens is heading to Iowa!

John Kinsella: Is this heaven?
Ray Kinsella: It's Iowa.
John Kinsella: Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.
Ray Kinsella: Is there a heaven?
John Kinsella: Oh yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.
Ray Kinsella: Maybe this is heaven

We're heading to Iowa for 2 public screenings of Mad City Chickens this weekend. Iowans want their backyard chickens, and we hope to help them get 'em.

~June 27, 2009 Iowa City Environmental Film Festival presented by IC Friends of Urban Chickens - 1:30pm Robert A. Lee Rec Center Social Hall, 220 S. Gilbert St., Filmmakers scheduled to attend.

~June 28, 2009 Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Public Screening presented by Cedar Rapids Chicken Chat group and the Indian Creek Nature Center - 2:00pm Indian Creek Nature Center, Filmmakers scheduled to attend.