True/False Film Festival

Is the Film Industry 'Imploding'? Indiewire's Influencers Respond

For the occasion of the first Indiewire Influencers list, a survey of 40 people and companies impacting the direction of the film industry, the Los Angeles Film Festival hosted a panel in downtown Los Angeles on Monday night sponsored by DIRECTV and Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles featurin...

8 Ways True/False Put Its Small, Charming Host City on the Film Festival Map

Over the past ten years, a documentary film festival in Columbia, Missouri has become one of the most anticipated and highly regarded stops on the festival circuit. The True/False Film Fest, whose tenth installment took place this past weekend, is one of the city's biggest events. Though creating ...

Why the Hell is One of the Most Well-Respected Doc Fests in Columbia, Missouri?

Just ten years in to creating their regional documentary festival, the creators of the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri are already running one of the most successful documentary film festivals in the world.

True/False Film Fest Announces 2013 Slate

Columbia, Missouri's True/False Film Fest was founded in 2004 and has since become one of the most reknowned documentary-centric festivals currently active. This year's slate provides plenty of buzzed about-docs, with Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, co-di...

True/False Film Festival Awards True/Life Prize to Tim Hetherington Doc; Names Winner of True Vision Award

Today, the True/False Film Festival announced that Sebastian Junger's "Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life & Time of Tim Hetherington" will receive the 2013 True Life Fund award.

FESTIVALS: True/False 2012, Day Four: Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

The movies I saw on the last day of True/False continued to intersect with the other movies I've seen this weekend. The festival taken as a whole functions as a kind of mosaic, in which the individual pieces add up to a larger whole. This is the first year I've really noticed this, even...

5 Reasons Why True/False Sets The Standard For Small Film Festivals

The 9th True/False Film Festival concluded yesterday in Colombia, Missouri. Over four days, thousands of folks congregated in Midwestern college town to take in a mix of (mostly) documentaries, innovative social events and -- of course -- the buskers that collectively make True/False such a standout...

'Only the Young' Filmmakers Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet Show Style with Profile of Young Christian Skaters

FESTIVALS: True/False 2012, Day Three: Strange Intersections

There's a strange sense of connectedness between the films I'm seeing at this year's True/False festival. Whether that's accidental or because of the way True/False is curated, I can't say, but some of the movies I'm seeing seem to be rhymes of other movies. Sometimes it'...