For Release: June 25 , 2007
Colorful close-up photography and an original music score, combined with facts about insect habitats and life cycles, offer viewers a documentary film that is at once informative and appealing. Garden Insects airs Sunday, July 8 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET1 and Thursday, July 12 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET2 .
With the growing popularity of organic gardening and "green" living, Garden Insects arrives just in time to help viewers learn about the multitude of insects in their gardens -- which ones are beneficial and which ones are destroying their vegetables, who eats whom and why. The unique aspect of the program is that producer and Kentuckian Chris Korrow is both a filmmaker and an organic farmer his insights com e from hours in the fields and a love for the garden ecosystem. " Garden Insects was filmed almost entirely in my own backyard," he says.
Having taught gardening classes for more than 14 years, Korrow was inspired to make Garden Insects when he realized how little the majority of gardeners know about insects . He recognized that these backyard horticulturists have a strong desire to better understand the tiny creatures that may often seem more bane than boon. The program aims to demonstrate that there are unexpected wonders crawling and buzzing through the garden plot.
An original percussive musical score, created by Korrow, accentuates Garden Insects . The filmmaker / farmer produced and edited the score in a suite on his farm in rural Kentucky.
Garden Insects , a winner of the EarthVision International Environmental Film Festival, Santa Cruz, Ca lif . , is produced by Breathe Deep Productions. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.