Movie Night - Thursday - February 4, 2010

FREE Special Screening
A gift to Maryland's EE Community from MAEOE
7:00pm
Rocky Gap Lodge

Mad City Chickens is a sometimes serious, sometimes whimsical look at the people who keep urban chickens in their backyards. The film deftly weaves multiple stories and contextual issues on city chickens and their keepers in a non-linear fashion that one rarely sees in a documentary. From chicken experts and authors to a rescued landfill hen or an inexperienced family that decides to take the poultry plunge—and even a mad professor and giant hen taking to the streets—it’s a humorous and heartfelt trip through the world of backyard chickendom.Experience the humor and heart of what’s fast becoming an international backyard chicken movement.

Mad City Chickens is as informative as it is entertaining, and it wouldn't be surprising if more than a few audience members went home and started pricing chicks and coops. Jane Burns, The Capital Times

“I never thought I would sit here mesmerized, open-mouthed over a chicken movie,” declared one audience member at the end of the evening. Neither did I. Kristian Knutsen, Isthmus Daily Page