Film Fest presents: “Percy” at The Norgan Theatre in Palmerston. Showing at 7:15 pm on Monday evening, November 16th. We encourage you to reserve your ticket prior to attending the show due to the limited capacity of 50 people per screening. Reservations are available through Eventbrite and will close 1 hour prior to showtime. Walk up tickets will be available, space permitting, but only on a first come, first served basis. As required by Public Health, face-coverings are required to be worn when walking inside the theatre. Once you are seated they can be removed. Concession will be open and hand sanitizer will be available!
Percy is an in October 2020 released American-Canadian-Indian biographical drama film. Directed by Clark Johnson from a screenplay by Garfield Lindsay Miller and Hilary Pryor. It stars Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby, Adam Beach, Martin Donovan, Roberta Maxwell and Peter Stebbings.
Based on events from a lawsuit in 1998, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser. He’s been growing canola from his own seed for his whole life and challenges a major conglomerate, when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops. As he speaks out against the company’s business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world, fighting the same battle. With help of his lawyer (Zach Braff) and a community activist (Christina Ricci), Percy becomes an unsuspecting folk hero in a desperate war. To protect farmers’ rights and the world’s food supply against, what they see as, corporate greed.
