Mad City Chickens Australian Premiere set for July 18th!
By Administrator | July 4, 2009
Mad City Chickens will make its Australian premiere on July 18th as part of the Feast of Films, a series of film screenings where all proceeds go to support From Plains to Plate, a not-for-profit community group that works on issues of food and agriculture in Adelaide, South Australia. More details to come.
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Chickens are like dogs: Iowa City Press
By Administrator | July 3, 2009
At our recent screening of Mad City Chickens in Iowa City, among the viewers in the audience was a reporter from the Iowa City Gazette. Read the Gazette article, Chickens like the dog next door, by columnist Jennifer Hemmingsen.
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.
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Tashai appears again on the Chicken Whisperer radio program
By Administrator | July 1, 2009
Atlanta-based Andy Schneider is the Chicken Whisperer. His program, Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer™ is a nationally broadcast radio show all about keeping backyard chickens. Each week he welcomes special guests to talk about keeping backyard poultry and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Tashai and Robert were guests for a show back on May 2nd, and today, Tashai is back with more info on the Mad City Chickens documentary and the phenomenon that is the backyard chicken movement.
Listen to today’s episode 18. Broadcast noon Eastern, 11:00 am Central.
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Iowa Chicken Tour: It is Heaven!
By Administrator | June 28, 2009
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
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Is this Heaven? Mad City Chickens is heading to Iowa!
By Administrator | June 26, 2009
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 - 2:00pm 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.
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Response to Kansas City screening of Mad City Chickens
By Administrator | June 24, 2009
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?
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Mad City Chickens screens tonight in Kansas City!
By Administrator | June 23, 2009
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.
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Mad City Chickens Review in Beverly Hills’ Canyon News
By Administrator | June 22, 2009
Read the recent review of the Mad City Chickens DVD by Canyon News writer Tommy Garrett
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Mad City Chickens screens tonight in Vancouver, BC
By Administrator | June 18, 2009
There’s much interest in backyard chickens in Vancouver, British Columbia as the city council there has recently made it legal to keep hens. However, the bylaws have yet to be finalized so people are still waiting to get their birds.
It an effort to raise awareness about chickens and to insure that the city council staff author intelligent bylaws, Village Vancouver is sponsoring a public screening of MCC tonight at 7:30pm, Langara Collage, 100 W 49th Ave. Following the film will be a discussion led by local backyard chicken expert Heather Havens.
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MCC Screening Tonight in Northampton, MA
By Administrator | June 17, 2009
Mad City Chickens is screening tonight in Northampton, MA. Sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Backyard Chicken Association, this Massachusetts group was created in May 2008 as a way to connect folks who raise and keep chickens on a small scale in their backyards.
Tonight’s screening is at 7:00pm, Forbes Library, 20 West St., Northampton, MA
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