Know Your Mushrooms
Directed by Ron Mann
2009Documentary73 minCanada
Prompted by Jim Jarmusch, Ron Mann heads to the Telluride Mushroom Festival to meet the nerds, tripsters, chefs and foragers who worship the mighty fungus.
Synopsis
Inspired by a chance conversation with fellow filmmaker and mushroom buff Jim Jarmusch, Mann set off to the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado. It was there he encountered the unique sub-sub-subculture surrounding fungi that includes an unlikely assortment of nerds, nuts, hipsters, tripsters, artists, chefs, musicians, foodies, foragers, and seekers all paying homage to the mighty mushroom.
The director
Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers and the founder of Films We Like. Since Imagine the Sound (1981) he has chronicled North American pop culture in films including Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Altman and Carmine Street Guitars.
On screens
Already played at 1 cinema in Municipality of Serravalle di Chienti.
