The Unlikely Heroes of True/False 2024
The winter coat I packed for the first weekend of March in Columbia, Missouri was…
The 2023 True/False Film Festival (Part 2)
Coming to a PBS near you, Leslie Tai’s How to Have an American Baby documents…
The 2023 True/False Film Festival (Part 1)
The intense community atmosphere of the True/False Festival Missouri every early March, amplifies the community-minded…
The 2022 True/False Film Festival
Possibly the best embodiment of its festival host, the documentary GES-2 has high art as…
The Friday Article Roundup: Into the Breach
It’s a brave new world out there and The FAR brings you daring reports from…
You Know not the Day nor the Hour: DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD as the Movie of 2020
[Fair warning – many spoilers ahead, and as documentaries go, Dick Johnson is quite spoilerable]…
True/False 2020 – THE MOLE AGENT, CRIP CAMP
The festival reached its final day today, adding another year of strong programming to its…
True/False 2020 – TIME, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, and others
The True/False festival’s theme this year is “Foresight,” a switcheroo on the usual direction of…
True/False 2020: BOYS STATE, SEVEN YEARS IN MAY
Feels good to walk the streets of Colombia, Missouri once again. The weather is disconcertingly…
The Documentaries of True/False
The True/False Film Festival begins in earnest today in the college town of Columbia, Missouri.…