Event

Hoopeston

DIR THOMAS BENDER
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 78:00 MIN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Hoopeston is a tale of the town that corn forgot. A documentary in four parts--DECLINE, REAL ESTATE, RELIGION, THE CRYSTAL WEB--it is part poignant portrait of heartland America, part real-life Christopher Guest on toads milk.

Two and a half hours south of Chicago near the Illinois- Indiana border, once the global capital of sweet corn production, Hoopeston, according to residents, went from a town of overachievers to underachievers in the span of just ten to fifteen years.

Church. Meth. Republicans. Thats about whats left when town officials, hoping to create jobs, start offering to give away prominent downtown buildings to anyone with a business plan. Guess whos coming to dinner butwhoopsa displaced Wiccan sect shopping downmarket for a good spot to open the nations first witch school, Witch School.

A beads industry mover and shaker from Virginia Beach; a pagan CEO with a checkered romantic past; the Orson Welles-esque leader of the Corellian Tradition, since age thirteen... take a trip with these egos to the dork side.