The dates for next year’s festival have been set. The 2010 True/False Film Festival will be held Thursday, February 25–Sunday, February 28. In the meantime, enjoy these interesting reviews of the 2009 fest:
Contributions to the True Life Fund are now being accepted on-line at the True/False web site. (Click on the Donate Now button.) In 2009, the True LIfe Fund, with the aid of many community partners and festival-goers, will attempt to raise over $10,000 to help the Democratic Voice of Burma purchase equipment and other vital needs. This equipment will not only assist these brave journalists in telling the world about their country, but smaller, lighter cameras and microphones could actually mean the difference between life and death for these reporters.
The 2009 True Life Fund is Burma VJ, directed by Anders Ostergaard. Chronicling the events of the so-called “saffron revolution” during 2007, Burma VJ represents a daring feat of documentary journalism by undercover Burmese reporters, who broadcast their street-level stories via the outlawed Democratic Voice of Burma. The True Life Fund was started in 2007 in order to offer tangible and meaningful assistance to the real-life subjects of a new film. The fund is an acknowledgement that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories given to us by people who are often of limited means.
Contributions will also be accepted at the Saturday and Sunday screenings of Burma VJ, or at any festival venue, including the box office. If writing a check, please include True Life Fund in the memo line. All contributions are tax deductible.
All T/F passholders are invited to a 9:30pm screening at Windsor Auditorium of “Get on the Bus” the 1996 Spike Lee film. Screenwriter Reggie Rock Bythewood will be in attendance to talk about the film. This is sponsored by the Martin Luther King Student Union at Stephens College and is FREE for all T/F passholders.
Attention all Guests, Silver Circle and Lux passholders: Reality Bites will begin at 5:30 pm tonight, NOT at 7:00 pm. There is a misprint in the program stating that the event begins at 7:00 pm, but it will in fact run from 5:30-7:00 pm. Reality Bites features cuisine from around the globe prepared by the finest restaurants in Columbia. We apologize for any confusion, and we’ll see you there!
EVERYONE is invited to join the March March this evening. Meet at the Blue Note at 5:30 pm and march with us from the Blue Note to Macklanburg for our annual kick off parade. Glen David Andrews will lead the procession, as puppets, trumpets, drums, balloons, banners, bikes and buskers flood the streets to let Columbia know, “True/False is here!”
Whew! Thanks to a resilient box office crew and a charming crowd of ticket seekers, the tsunami of general ticket sales has successfully fallen upon us and receded (and things went swimmingly). A few more films have gone NRT (No Reserve Tickets), but the following films still have tickets available as of 6:15 pm on Thursday:
Thursday, February 26
Friday, February 27
Saturday, February 28
Sunday, March 1
NRT (No Reserve Tickets) means that all the tickets for a screening have been purchased or reserved by passholders. When this happens, there are no longer tickets available from the Box Office for that showing. However, there is still a good chance you can get in at the door using our ingenious “Q” system. (More info about the Q.)
University students: There will be a free University screening of Afghan Star on Wednesday night, Feb. 25, 7pm at the Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Ninth St. Show up early and bring your student ID to get in. We’ll be giving away two student passes (good for four screenings!) and selling others. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Havana Marking. Preceding the feature will be a short - Separate Vacations, directed by Anne S. Lewis. Separate Vacations is the winner of the Missouri Review Creative Short Film competition, held in partnership with True/False.
Pre-fest ticket reservations are over, and there are a slew of films with tickets still available for purchase at the T/F Box Office, which will open for business at Noon on Thursday, Feb. 26. See the previous post for a riveting box office how to.
Tickets are still available for the following films:
Thursday, February 26
Friday, February 27
Saturday, February 28
Sunday, March 1
In order to help you prepare for the opening of the the T/F Box Office this year, our trusty box office crew has put together a guide to the box office. Read below for everything you need to know about getting tickets and picking up your pass.
Location:
The box office has moved this year to the “Artisan Annex,” (808 Cherry St.), which is located right next door to the Cherry Street Artisan.
Box Office Hours:
Pass Holders:
We have designated times that you can pick up passes and reserved ticket orders (Wed., Feb. 25, 5 pm - 8 pm; Thurs. Feb. 26, 9 am - 12 pm) before the Box Office opens for ticket sales. You will NOT be able to get additional tickets during these hours. This is for PICK-UP ONLY.
If you want to exchange or amend your order, or purchase additional tickets for a friend you can do so at 12 pm on Thursday when the box office opens for ticket sales (see below for further information).
Your pass will be held for you in the Box Office. If you can can’t make the Express Pick-up, you can come at anytime during normal Box Office hours.
General Ticket Sales/Pass Holder Ticket Exchanges on Thursday:
The Box Office will open for ticket sales at 12 pm on Thurs., Feb 26. We will start handing out line numbers starting at 9 am that morning, as we expect crowds. The line number you receive will determine your place in line at noon.* Once you receive your line number you can leave the Box Office and come back closer to noon to line up.
The Cherry Street Artisan will be used as a place for patrons of the festival to hang out while you are waiting for your line number to be called. While you are waiting at Artisan, you can peruse the T/F program and figure out your movie picks. Please refer to the film boards for a listing of screenings for which we have tickets available. For all NRT screenings, you will need to Q up at the venue if you would like to see that film.
Box office staff will be calling line numbers at the Artisan. When your group is called, you will line up at the Artisan Annex.
*Box Office staff may give you a rough estimate of your wait time but we cannot guarantee the time it will take for people to move through the line. It is your responsibility to be available to line up when your group is called or the line will move on without you!
At 5:30 pm today, we will post a list of films that still have tickets available. Rest assured that there will be thousands of tickets available for purchase when the box office opens.
Many tickets — thousands of them! — remain for True/False, and they will go on sale Thursday, Feb. 26 starting at our Cherry St. Artisan box office near 9th and Cherry in downtown Columbia. But for those of you hoping to buy a pass package, entitling you to reserve tickets for multiple films online, the end is nigh. Actually it’s less than 24 hours away. (And supplies are dwindling. Currently, five Lux passes and two Silver Circle passes remain, and Simple passes are gone, gone, gone as of Sunday.)
All online pass sales end at 5pm on Tuesday, Feb. 17, and then online ticket reservations end three days later on Friday, Feb. 20 at 5pm.
And that goes for the many of you passholders who still haven’t reserved tickets. Best go online in the next three days. Alternatively, you can wait until Thursday, Feb. 26 (starting at noon) to do the deed. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a tidy little envelope waiting for you? And lest we not reiterate this again, you can always use that pass at the Q lines outside venues. If your Q number is low enough to claim a seat, you won’t have to pay $8 to get in to the film. And we will predict that most shows at the Missouri Theatre and the Blue Note, to name our two biggest venues, will have room to spare.
We caution you to not get anxious about the end of pass sales — there are two ways to still obtain tickets (box office and Q), and we suspect you will see many good films however you want to play this. True/False is almost ready to roll, so welcome aboard. See you next week!
Let us be the first to quell the rumor: tickets to True/False are NOT “sold out.” Although many films are now “NRT” (more about that below) you can still expect to see a worthy selection of films. You can do this by either purchasing tickets to non-NRT screenings (yes, they still exist) when the box office opens on Thursday, Feb 26 or by taking advantage of our ingenious “Q” system.
Your hope for admittance exists for three reasons: 1) there are still many tickets available for screenings at our larger venues; 2) we hold back a certain number of tickets to select screenings so that tickets will be available for purchase at the box office ; and 3) inevitably, many ticket holders will not show up for a screening, and their seats will be up for grabs via the “Q”.
Granted, at this point in the reservation process, it may be difficult to get tickets for films playing at our smaller venues (Big and Little Ragtag, the Forrest Theater), so we recommend setting your sights on screenings at the Missouri Theater, the Blue Note, Macklanburg Cinema and Windsor Auditorium. At the time of this post, there are still many tickets available for films such as No Impact Man, Reporter, Afghan Star, Rough Aunties, Burma VJ, Pressure Cooker, and We Live in Public — and that’s highly unlikely to change before tickets go on sale at the box office.
NRT (No Reserve Tickets) simply means that all the reservable tickets for a film have been purchased or reserved by passholders. When this happens, there are no longer tickets available from the Box Office for that particular screening, but there’s still a good chance you can get in at the door. Inevitably, some of the people who reserved tickets don’t show up, and we make those seats available for patrons at the door through the “Q”.
The “Q” is your chance to get in at the door of a movie for which you were unable to reserve or purchase a ticket. Beginning one hour prior to the start of a film, eager movie-goers can get a “Q” number. With your “Q” number in hand, you can wander about or grab a cup of coffee instead of being bound to a line. Then, 15 minutes prior to the start of the film, you can resume your place in the queue and the House Manager will release available seats 5 minutes prior to the start of the film. (It really does work, trust us.)
For the record, there’s never been a showing at the festival where nobody got in at the door. So, it’s worth the effort if you really want to see a film. And rumor has it that the “Q” is a fun place for mingling with fellow festival goers.
For a complete understanding of how this all works, we strongly recommend reading our Ticket and Pass FAQ. If the murkiness lingers, don’t hesitate to email us (tickets@truefalse.org) or call our hotline (573-442-TRUE). We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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