Know Your Mushrooms

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Know Your Mushrooms
Directed by Ron Mann
Produced by Ron Mann
Starring Larry Evans
Gary Lincoff
Music by The Flaming Lips
Cinematography Andy Keen
Brian T. Moore
Editing by Simon Ennis
Nick Taylor
Studio Sphinx Productions
Distributed by Films We Like
Release date(s) 5 December 2008 (2008-12-05)
Running time 74 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

Know Your Mushrooms is a 2009 documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann.[1][2]

The 74 minute Sphinx Productions[3] film examines the counterculture Telluride Mushroom Festival[4], held annually in Telluride, Colorado and some of the mycologists and funghiphiles that gather there such as Larry Evans [5] [6] and Gary Lincoff,[7] author of seven mushroom identification guidebooks[8] including the Audubon Field Guide to Mushrooms.[9]

The soundtrack includes music by the Flaming Lips and The Sadies.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Know Your Mushrooms: Fungus film on the button" Toronto: The Star
  2. ^ a b Jason Anderson Know Your Mushrooms. Directed by Ron Mann. (G) 73 min. Opens Jan 30 at the Royal (608 College). Eye Weekly
  3. ^ IMDB
  4. ^ Photo report from the 2008 Telluride Mushroom Festival [1]
  5. ^ Larry Evans Larry's fungal jungal
  6. ^ Chris Knight "Know Your Mushrooms: You don’t win friends with salad, but you do with fungi" National Post
  7. ^ Jim Slotek 'Mushroom' full of cool people, facts 30 January 2009 The Sun
  8. ^ Toronto filmmaker seeks to elevate lowly mushroom CBC 30 January 2009
  9. ^ Peter Howell "Spores score with Ron Mann" The Star 30 January 2009

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