Free Community Screening of Feature Film SILO

Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH) will be hosting a free screening of the independent film, SILO on at 7pm, March 7, 2020 at the Ainsworth Opera House and Community Center.

SILO is the first ever feature film about a grain entrapment, a possible tragedy agricultural communities face every day.

Inspired by true events, SILO tells the story of Cody Rose, an 18-year-old who falls victim to a grain entrapment incident in a small American farm town. As grain turns to quicksand, family, neighbors and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue Cody from drowning in the crop that has sustained their community for generations.

Following the screening, join a panel discussion with Ainsworth Fire Chief Waylon Schultz, Farmers Coop Association manager Brian Wood, and local farmer and volunteer firefighter Michael Cavin.  Learn about how Washington County officials and grain handling experts are prepared to deal with a potential grain entrapment.

World-Grain.com says of the film: “Throughout the farming community it’s often hard to talk about grain entrapment because so many people have been hurt or killed… the movie will be something that people can really learn from.”

SILO is being released through community screenings, not commercial theaters. The challenge of reaching a wide audience with an independent film has never been greater, and SILO filmmakers aim team up with local organizations, such as I-CASH, to both educate and entertain rural audiences nationwide.

For more information about this screening please email I-CASH director Brandi Janssen at brandi-janssen@uiowa.edu.  For more information visit www.i-cash.org; to RSVP online go to https://www.facebook.com/events/2576153572631608/.