Know Your Mushrooms is a 2008 documentary film by Canadian director Ron Mann. 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 Evans and Gary Lincoff, author of seven mushroom identification guidebooks, including the Audubon Field Guide to Mushrooms. 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.

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