"a breezy doc on fungi, of the magic variety and otherwise, with music by The Flaming Lips"

Interview with Ron Mann - Director Ron Mann, best known for his indispensable "Comic Book Confidential" (1988), brings his camera to the annual telluride Mushroom Festival where fungophiles celebrate the glory of one of the planet´s most overlooked natural resources

"fun and informative and interspersed with so many cartoons, animations and bits of archival footage that your attention never wanders while watching it..."

Gary Lincoff on Martha. Streaming Video!

"I caught this wonderfully engaging, entertaining and informative film at the SXSW Film Festival this year. Ron and I spoke together on a panel out there and got to chat a bit afterward over margaritas."

Mann, as always, has a keen eye for archival footage, but his own enthusiasm is what stitches it all together.

"KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS is essential viewing for all human beings. Without these fascinating creatures our world would be uninhabitable. Finally a remarkable film explains some of their many mysteries and celebrates their presence among us all!"
- Jim Jarmusch

"It's just a file," says Candian documentarian and award winning filmmaker Ron Mann of his latest production. As such, he doesn't resist if his movie is on YouTube or a computer memory stick. In fact, that's how he sells it.

Now On USB? Mann Takes “Mushrooms” To New Platform

...a fun and informative documentary! With it's cool flash drive/ wooden box packaging, this would make for a very cool gift.

Ron Mann, a Canadian national treasure for his contributions to the art of the documentary, is about to revolutionize film distribution. At least a little; potentially a lot.

Mushroom Doodles: A few days before the Know Your Mushrooms Possible World's event at Red Rattler, I asked myself: Can I make a zine as well as help organise all the decorations/installations for the night? Zine making for Punk Monk Propaganda- involved events has become a tradition of sorts for fellow Punk Monkey Alexander and I and somewhat of an obsession since we thought we'd try it out at ALGAE RHYTHM 0.01 earlier in the year.

"Ron Mann, makes films that explore those underbelly-ish, secret worlds where visionaries and explorers of the mind and spirit gather to play around with substances that alter our inner (and outer) universes"

Interview with Ron Mann

Know Your Mushrooms, gem of Possible World's Canadian Film Festival premiered in Australia last Saturday night alongside a psychedelic carnivale of kaleidoscopic colour, dancing glowing bodies, circus tricks and pure devotion to the fungi. All hailed the man (Ron Mann) who brought us this combination of tripped out adventures, scientific teachings, fungi worship, pop culture pastiche and eye opening knowledge about the magic, joy and healing functions of the mushroom.

Last Saturday night, Ron Mann's excellent nature porn documentary KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS played to a sold-out Red Rattler theatre as part of the Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival. Big love to the Festivalists for inviting Punk Monk to throw together the installations for the evening. A playground like the Rattler is a treat for us, from its industrial warehouse street to its velvety lounge chairs.

Basically, people buy these USB keys for $59.99 -- which, I might add, are said to be almost sold out -- and are then encouraged to upload and share the film. Mann says: "We did this as a fun project. It wasn't a commercial venture." Nevertheless, it's a smart idea -- warm people to the film, and then how can they resist the charm of shroomy movie keys?

Director Ron Mann not afraid of unconventional film release in digital format.

"People are afraid of having their film released in a file format because it can be file-shared, but the truth is you can get a program (to do the same thing with DVDs) and you’re BitTorrenting anyway (in minutes). There’s really no difference," he said.

Beyond his artistic merits, Mann is also pushing the boundaries of technology. He's marking the DVD release of his Know Your Mushrooms by skipping the DVD part, and says he will instead distribute a special edition of his documentary on a 4-gigabyte flash drive.

More fun with fungi: Doc "Know Your Mushrooms" to be released on USB drive

"I realized no one's ever done this before and it's been incredible to see the response to a groundbreaking way of releasing films," he said.

Canadian director Ron Mann is testing a new method of movie distribution, releasing his documentary Know Your Mushrooms on a customized USB stick.

If you’ve ever been to a mushroom festival — particularly the legendary Telluride Mushroom Festival, which this year runs from August 27-30 — you already know that mycologists (’shroom experts) are in a league of their own. And so is the documentary Know Your Mushrooms.

In celebration of the highly-anticipated release of Ron Mann’s latest film Know Your Mushrooms, comes a Limited Special Edition Collector’s Box.

Why is this exciting? Because this is the first time in North America that a feature film will be released on a memory stick.

Canadian director Ron Mann is testing a new method of movie distribution, releasing his documentary Know Your Mushrooms on a customized USB stick.

Ron Mann is making it dangerously easy for file traders to download his latest documentary, "Know Your Mushrooms," for free, but the Canadian director says he's simply embracing technology.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS goes down under!

In celebration of the highly-anticipated DVD release of Ron Mann!s latest film Know Your Mushrooms, comes a Special Edition Collector!s Box. Now, for the first time in North America, a feature film is being released on a 4-gigabyte re-usable USB flash drive!

The Saffron Sect feature on the soundtrack of ... Know Your Mushrooms

Foodie film prize icing on cake...

"Know Your Mushrooms": A delicious exploration."

Feed Your Head! Evans and Lincoff guide a fact-filled, scientific adventure that appreciates the cultural fungal phenomenon — from foodie fascination to the counter-cultural icon and life-giver to the titular plumbers in Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.

Streaming Video: Veteran documentarian Ron Mann joins the throng of mycophiles (mushroom aficionados) at the Telluride Mushroom Festival for a fascinating look at fungi!

"The chosen films vary in length, the longest at 73 minutes is Ron Mann's "Know Your Mushrooms." It follows fungi experts Larry Evans and Gary Lincoff on a mushroom trip through the woods, set to a score by the Flaming Lips."

Shrooms with a Viewpoint

Fungi Magic, director Ron Mann pays homage to an unusual obsession

Larry Evans Attends Know Your Mushrooms Screenings April 3-6

Know Your Mushrooms opens the doors to perception, takes the audience on a longer, stranger trip and delivers them to a brave new world where the fungi might well guide humanity to a saner, safer place.

En su tercera visita al BAFICI, presenta "Know Your Mushrooms", una película sobre "todo tipo de hongos".

Los hongos son mágicos

a fun, quirky but deeply educational foray into the incredibly diverse world of fungi.

a playfully informative look at various types of fleshy fungi and the folks who avidly consume them.

Canada's Favourite Alt Filmmaker Hits His Stride

"I see myself more as a cultural historian than a filmmaker"

There are apparently two kinds of people on this planet: fungiphiles and fungiphobes - those who love mushrooms and those who go to great lengths to remove them from their pizzas, salads and backyards.

Q&A: Canadian Filmmaker Ron Mann

it effectively underscores the notion that mushrooms could very well save the world.

From cooking tips to outer-space conspiracies, to mushroom trip stories, this film pretty well appears to cover the mushroom culture gamut. Like his other works, this piece keeps up a good pace, has a fun narrative, and makes you hungry for mushrooms. Check it out.

Ron Mann discusses spacey theories, DIY distribution and his illuminating new documentary, Know Your Mushrooms.

Annette Kellerman trips with Day One of SXSW with Ron Mann's KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS

Ron Mann is interviewed on QTV. QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One's Q.

Mush-ru-mentary will hold your attention

a splendid documentary

Mush-ru-mentary will hold your attention

Simon Ennis Interviews Ron Mann

10 Questions with Ron Mann

Learning Your 1ups From Your Poisons.

The Flaming Lips live experience is probably the most psychedelic thing you'll see on stage these days, so it's probably appropriate that they've soundtracked a film called Know Your Mushrooms.

Some collaborations just make too much sense. This is one of them: independent filmmaker Ron Mann has locked up The Flaming Lips to score his documentary film, Know Your Mushrooms...

In almost too-perfect-to-be-true match-up, Mann decided to have a neo-psychedelic soundtrack by none other than The Flaming Lips.

This is it, shroomers: your technicolor, unicorn-in-space prayers have been answered.

The mushroom people find a friend

Yes, count me a convert, if not yet a cognoscenti. Still, like Alice when she's 10 feet tall, my knowledge has definitely mushroomed, enough to know that, somewhere in those fungal woodlands, there's a remedy for most everything — maybe even the lingering strains of an old love long unrequited.

Yes, yes, psychedelics do come into play

Spores score with Ron Mann

Fungus film on the button

You don’t win friends with salad, but you do with fungi.

Putting fun in fungal.

Who knew mushrooms could clean up oil spills?

Ron Mann, Filmmaker, Know Your Mushrooms

4 N's! Delightful.

Know Your Mushrooms screening at Western nearly stemmed!

Know Your Ron Mann

Know Your Mushrooms being more silly than serious by nature. Enjoy it with a grilled Portobello sandwich in the company of your favourite dirty hippie.

Ron Mann, champion of the humble champignon.

...the whole mind/body/spirit gang should find enjoyment in the many minute observations offered, as they intrinsically mean a great deal more to those under the influence.

...utterly fascinating, often hilarious and always informative slice of mycological culture.

What a Long, Strange Trip: Canadian Documentary Director Ron Mann.

This movie is on shrooms. Toronto director Ron Mann explores the subculture of the mushroom.

A trip through all things mushroom

Filmmaker Ron Mann Takes CityNews.ca On A Shroom Trip

"So this totally happened because my friend, filmmaker and fungiphile, Jim Jarmusch turned me on to the Telluride Mushroom festival which is a gathering of people crazy for mushrooms..."

"explore the subculture of mushroom enthusiasts