Know Your Mushrooms is a 2008 documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann."Know Your Mushrooms: Fungus film on the button" Toronto: The StarJason Anderson Know Your Mushrooms. Directed by Ron Mann. (G) 73 min. Opens Jan 30 at the Royal (608 College). Eye Weekly
The 74 minute Sphinx Productions film examines the counterculture Telluride Mushroom Festival, held annually in Telluride, Colorado and some of the mycologists and funghiphiles that gather there such as Larry EvansLarry Evans Larry's fungal jungalChris Knight "Know Your Mushrooms: You don't win friends with salad, but you do with fungi" National Post and Gary Lincoff,Jim Slotek 'Mushroom' full of cool people, facts 30 January 2009 The Sun author of seven mushroom identification guidebooks,Toronto filmmaker seeks to elevate lowly mushroom CBC 30 January 2009 including the Audubon Field Guide to Mushrooms.Peter Howell "Spores score with Ron Mann" The Star 30 January 2009
The soundtrack includes music by the Flaming Lips and The Sadies.
Know Your Mushrooms is more about hard science and gourmet cuisine than space-outs and the munchies.
Synopsis Director Ron Mann and his partners at the first Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, collect and consume mushrooms of every variety, particularly the aesthetically unappealing. Mushroom fans and fungi experts explore and investigate during the four-day festival. Gary Lincoff and mycologist Larry Evans lead a wild mushroom hunt. Day One: Displays of local mushrooms and cooking demonstrations. Day Two: Discussion and lecture. Day Three: Health effects of fungi and cultural roles. Discussion include mushroom's potential, for example, possible anti-cancer properties or mythological significance in shamanistic cultures. Day Four: A parade. Quizzes and short animations present controversial fungi, such as magic mushroom and fly agaric, the documentary provides an in-depth introduction to fungi.
Cast Larry Evans as Larry Evans Gary Lincoff as Gary Lincoff Andrew Weil as Andrew Weil John Cage as John Cage Terence McKenna as Terence McKenna John Allegro as John Allegro
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