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.

Response to Kansas City screening of Mad City Chickens

Katherine Kelly is the Executive Director and Farmer at the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture. Here's her facebook post today after seeing the KC premiere of MCC:

Mad City Chickens! What a great movie that was last night. There were some 75 people in the room, nearly all of them either had chickens already, or were interested in getting some. The movie was funny and very inspiring. I think one of the best points that was made is that chickens (and, by reasonable extension) are less of a nuisance to the neighbors than dogs are, so why do we outlaw them, but not dogs?

Mad City Chickens screens tonight in Kansas City!

The Kansas City metro area has been having various educational activities this month on urban agriculture. In conjunction with these occurrences, the KC-based All Souls Documentary Film Series, a regular weekly event, decided to join in and screen a couple shorts on the urban agriculture subject matter.

In addition, they also wanted to screen a feature-length doc. So tonight, the All Souls Documentary Film Series presented by the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture will be holding the Kansas City premiere of Mad City Chickens

7:00pm All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut St., Kansas City, Missouri.

Mad City Chickens Review in Beverly Hills’ Canyon News

Read the recent review of the Mad City Chickens DVD by Canyon News writer Tommy Garrett.