We are still accepting volunteer applications, but spaces are filling up quickly, so sign up soon.
We especially need Set-Up Team volunteers who are available during the day (9 a.m.–6 p.m.), Feb. 27–March 1, and on March 5. (Requires heavy lifting.) It’s a great way to get your volunteer hours in before and after the Fest, so you have the weekend free to watch some docs!
Sign up today at the True/False Volunteer Page.
The final deadline for submissions to Gimme Truth!—T/F’s real-and-fake documentary game show—is fast approaching. (read more »)
Construction on the poster for the 2012 True/False Film festival is now complete. Check it out:
The poster was created by Los Angeles–based designer Erik Buckham. He also directed this year’s awesome animated trailer, which you may have already seen on TV:
The theme of this year’s poster is “The Influencing Machine,” an idea that True/False co-conspirators David Wilson and Paul Sturtz first ran across in an essay by Christopher Turner in Cabinet magazine. The essay tells the story of Victor Tausk, a student of Sigmund Freud’s, who studied the elaborate mechanical constructions that schizophrenics invented to explain their delusions. These “Influencing Machines,” in Tausk’s description, resembled nothing so much as psychological, paranoid film projectors. (read more »)
Dear Dawdlers,
To you, the decorated, dallying dreamers of the Missouri River bottoms. To you, the lovers of music, of trailside surprises, of heaps of delectable foodstuffs. To you, the dancers in the mist garden, the hikers up the hill, the headbangers in the park, we raise our glasses.
After the feast and fireworks were over (big thanks to our friends at Spirit of 76), we remembered what we love most about Columbia. It is a town that embraces our wildest ideas and makes them even better than we had hoped. And as long as the joy and mania of these events endures, we’ll keep doing them.
So thank you. Each of you who rode a bike or played a fiddle or helped us stretch or taught us Ozark history. Thanks to the tech team who hauled speakers and screen with index finger held aloft waiting for the wind to change and the skies to open. Thanks to our partners at Les Bourgeois, at Schlafly, at Patchwork, Goatsbeard, Uprise and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture for the food and drink. Thanks to Walt’s for fixing flats and donating a great giveaway. Thanks to the Tribune and BXR for spreading the word, to Delta Systems for keeping our web site afloat, and to Off Track Events for keeping us all pedaling in the right direction.
Visit our Facebook page to check out the latest photos from the day (we’ll be posting more as they roll in). If you stopped at the Bur Oak, those portraits will be posted on Facebook very soon. And please note that the one-of-a-kind messenger bag from Leif Labs (accompanied by a $50 gift certificate to the Butterfly Tattoo) is still unclaimed, so if you have raffle ticket # 292416, please let us know.
It was a great Dawdle. Let’s do it again sometime. Perhaps August 18, 2012?
Best,
David, Paul, Jeremy, Mary Jane, Tracy & Team T/F
To all interested filmmakers:
The True/False Film Fest (March 1-4, 2012, www.truefalse.org) is gearing up for its ninth year of celebrating non-fiction cinema and is seeking out documentaries from all over the globe. True/False is interested in championing fresh, exciting voices in documentary, as well as works that tiptoe, or perhaps demolish, the line separating fact and fiction.
True/False takes place in Columbia, MO, USA, a smart and enthusiastic community that embraces the festival and all its components—screenings, panels, parties, parade, game show, etc.—in a major way. True/False brings in a filmmaker to represent each feature film in its program, covering travel, lodging and pass, and offering an unparalleled experience.
To see what other filmmakers, including James Marsh (Man On Wire, Project Nim), Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares) and Laura Poitras (The Oath), have to say about the festival experience, check out http://truefalse.org/about/endorsements
If you’re interested in submitting, please visit https://truefalse.org/submit
True/False 2012 Deadlines and Entry Fees:
August 1, 2011 Earlybird Deadline*. Feature: $25 Short: $20
October 7, 2011 Regular Deadline*. Feature: $30 Short: $20
November 7, 2011 Late Deadline*. Feature: $35 Short: $25
December 7, 2011 Withoutabox-only Extended Deadline. Feature: $45 Short: $30
*Submit using withoutabox.com and receive $5 off your entry fee
Back for its second year, the Boone Dawdle brings together some of the best things in life — biking, music, food, nature, and film. It’s also a fun, outdoorsy way for you to show your support of True/False in the off-season. Can we call it a tradition yet? (read more »)
The second annual Boone Dawdle will take place on Saturday, August 20. Join us for a surprise-filled bike ride from Columbia to the Blufftop Bistro of Les Bourgeois Winery, where we’ll enjoy a local foods picnic and watch a film overlooking the Missouri River once the sun goes down. Tickets will go on sale in June.
