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2025
“Heading to True/False? Don’t skip out on these musical showcases” Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“True/False 2025: The Track, Writing Hawa, Make It Look Real” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert
“True/False 2025: Seeds, River of Grass, How Deep Is Your Love” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert
“True/False 2025: WTO/99, Family Album, Land With No Rider” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert
“Of Predators and Progress at True/False 2025” Scott Tobias, The Reveal
“Presentation Is as Important as the Story Being Told at True/False Film Fest 2025” Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire
“Eric Hynes on True False 2025: WTO/99, A Body to Live In, Resurrection, Kouté Vwa, The Undergrowth” Nic Rapold, The Last Thing I Saw
“True/False 2025″ Nic Rapold and Saffron Maeve, Screen Slate
“True/False Conversations” KBIA Staff, KBIA
“True/False Wraps a Banner 2025 Edition” Matt Carey, Deadline
“True/False Film Fest 2025: Excavation, Therapy, Protest” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“Award-Winning ‘Seeds’ To Sprout At True/False Film Fest, Plus Dozens More Innovative Docs: ‘We’re Really Invested In Supporting Creative Nonfiction'” Matt Carey, Deadline
“We’re All We’ve Got: A Dispatch from the 2025 True/False Film Fest” Sarah Welch-Larson, Bright Wall/Dark Room
“The Best Burger in the World: True/False 2025” Michael Blair, Film Comment
“In ‘The Track’ Young Lugers Pursue Olympic Dreams On A Course Pocked With Scars Of War – True/False Film Fest” Matt Carey, Deadline
True/False Film Fest 2024 turns its focus to the human paradox,” Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
“Doc Talk Podcast Debates Oscar Results And Travels To The True/False Film Fest” John Ridley and Matt Carey, Doc Talk
“The Dating Game’ Rolls To Thessaloniki After Raucous Screenings At True/False: “People Were Laughing From Beginning To End” John Ridley and Matt Carey, Doc Talk
“Everything you need to know about the 2025 True/False Film Festival” Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
“Dreams, Memory, Resistance: True/False 2025” Patricia Aufderheide, Filmmaker Mag
“True/False 2025” Maneater Staff, The Maneater
“‘Maybe an Individual is Only as Interesting as the Energy Surrounding Them’: Angelo Madsen on His True/False-debuting A Body to Live In” Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Mag
“This True/False film plumbs ocean depths of wonder” Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“‘I Put 30 Years of My Life Into 80 Minutes’: Myrid Carten on Her True/False Documentary, A Want in Her” Natalia Keogan, Filmmaker Mag
“‘The Link Between Exploration and Exploitation’: Eleanor Mortimer on How Deep Is Your Love” Natalia Keogan, Filmmaker Mag
“‘A cool thing that Columbia has’: Festgoers, volunteers reflect on True/False”
“True/False 2025: Charlie Shackleton’s cheeky meta-documentary Zodiac Killer Project wants true crime to do better” Abby Olcese, The Pitch
“The 2025 True/False Film Fest looks to the past to make sense of the present” Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
“True/False 2025: Middletown is the latest story of youthful empowerment from the filmmakers behind Boys State and Girls State” Abby Olcese, The Pitch
2024
“The 2024 True/False Film Festival Brought a Parade, Sperm Donors, and a Weekend of Documentaries to Missouri” Carlos Aguilar, IndieWire
“Off The Map: Highlights From True/False 2024” Scott Tobias, The Reveal
“Note to Documentary Distributors: These 5 True/False Film Festival Titles Deserve a Home Now” Susannah Gruder, IndieWire
“The Last Thing I Saw: Eric Hynes on First Look and True/False 2024” Nic Rapold, The Last Thing I Saw
“True/False Conversations” KBIA Staff, KBIA
“A True Accounting Of The True/False Festival” John Ridley, Deadline’s Doc Talk
“Feats of Defiance: True/False 2024” Dessane Lopez Cassell, Film Comment
“True/False Film Fest 2024: Creative Subjects” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“True/False 2024: Seeking Mavis Beacon looks for the woman who taught us how to type” Abby Olcese, The Pitch
“True/False Film Festival 2024: Constructing a Collective Reality” Sarah Welch-Larson, Bright Wall/Dark Room
True/False Film Fest 2024 turns its focus to the human paradox,” Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
“True/False 2024” Saffron Maeve, Screen Slate
“True/False 2024: Coming Home Again” Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
“True/False 2024: A Photographic Memory, There Was There Was Not, Three Promises” Robert Daniels, Rogerebert.com
“True/False 2024: Ibelin, Alien Island, Yintah” Robert Daniels, Rogerebert.com
“Mitch McCabe on Their True/False Premiere 23 Mile” Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Mag
“Elizabeth Nichols on Her True/False-Debuting Flying Lessons” Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Mag
“’A War Without Rules’: Shoghakat Vardanyan on IDFA Best Film Winner ‘1489’” Lauren Wissot, Documentary Magazine
“There Was, There Was Not Film Interview” Saelyx Finna, Redefine Mag
“True/False Film Fest 2024 Music Picks” Saelyx Finna, Redefine Mag
“True/False 2024” Maneater Staff, The Maneater
2023
“The best of this year’s True/False documentary festival”, Kari Paul, The Guardian
“The True/False Film Festival: A Paradise For Fans Of Documentary Films”, Scott Phillips, Forbes
“True/False 2023: Personal stories, wide range of heroes grace festival screens”, Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“TRUE/FALSE 2023: Critic’s Notebook”, Steve Dollar, Fandor Keyframe
“True/False Film Fest 2023: Constructed Communities”, Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“Precarity, Therapy Films and Ethics: True/False Film Fest 2023”, Patricia Aufderheide, Filmmaker Magazine
“The Film Comment Podcast: The Politics of the Personal”, Film Comment
“True/False 2023”, Nicolas Rapold, Screen Slate
“The best festival films we saw at True/False 2023 in Columbia”, Abby Olcese, The Pitch
“True/False 2023 gets personal”, Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
2022
“True/False Festival Returns In-Person With Annual Parade and Spirited Response to Docus About Russia”, Addie Morfoot, Variety
“Column: At True/False, Russian filmmakers speak out for art and against their country’s attack on Ukraine”, Mary McNamara, LA Times
The Film Comment Podcast: Points of View at True/False, Devika Girish, Film Comment
“True/False Festival 2022 was a joyful (if cautious) return to form”, Abby Olcese, The Pitch
“True Blood”, Nicolas Rapold, ArtForum
“Love in a Liminal Place: Paste at the 2022 True/False Film Fest”, Tim Grierson and Dom Sinacola, Paste Magazine
“True/False 2022: Welcome Home”, Zoé Samudzi, Film Comment
“‘After Sherman’: Film Review | True/False 2022”, Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
“Column: ‘Let the Little Light Shine,’ the Chicago documentary about race, education, politics and dissent, electrifies True/False Film Fest”, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“‘These Were People Who Were Searching for a Place to Dream’: Nollywood Director Ike Nnaebue on his True/False-debuting No U-Turn“, Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Magazine
“True/False’s return marked by in-person celebration and thoughtful programming”, Max Havey, St. Louis Magazine
2021
“This year, True/False Film Fest transforms with cinema under the stars in Columbia, Mo.”, Steve Leftridge, St. Louis Post Dispatch
“Kansas City’s Shy Boys eager for True/False return to form”, Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“True/False Festival 2021: Highlights of a Virtual Event”, Vikram Murthi, RogerEbert.com
“Columbia’s True/False Film Fest measures 2021 support in ticket sales, encouragement from community”, Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“True/False: Two for One, or Two Halves Make a Whole?”, Coley Gray and Patricia Aufderheide, Documentary Magazine
“True/False Festival 2021: Virtual preview”, Piers Marchant, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
“Reality TV used to be about getting famous. 90 Day Fiancé is about the American dream.” Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
“The Alpha and the Omega of Film Fests: Paste at Teleported True/False 2021″, Dom Sinacola, Paste Magazine
“True/False 2021: The First Film Festival — URL vs. IRL”, Cosmo Bjorkenheim & Nicolas Rapold, Screen Slate
2020
“True, False, and Everything in Between at America’s Most Adventurous Film Festival”, Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic
“True/False Film Fest: When a Festival Means Something”, Daniel Kasman, MUBI
“Not at All without Hope: Steve James on City So Real”, Daniel Christian, Paste Magazine
“Well-Received True/False Doc ‘Mayor’ Picked Up By Dogwoof & Cinetic”, Tom Grater, Deadline
“The Best Last Festival Ever: Paste at the 2020 True/False Film Fest”, Daniel Christian and Dom Sinacola, Paste Magazine
“In Praise of Collective Viewing: True/False 2020”, Jordan Smith, Senses of Cinema
“Film Festivals Like True/False Show Why Pushes For Diversity Need to Look Beyond Numbers”, Monica Castillo, Remezcla
“Column: The creator of ‘The Real World’ is a big fan and patron of the True/False Fest“, Mary McNamara, LA Times
“18 provocative documentaries to look for this year”, Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
“Viral fears, politics, and Hannibal Buress dominated a long weekend at the True/False Film Festival”, A.A. Dowd, AV Club
“‘Feels Good Man’ Review: An Infamous Meme and the Guy Behind It Get the Documentary Treatment [True/False 2020]”, Abby Olcese, SlashFilm
2019
“AOC, Nathan Fielder, and Neil Armstrong were the stars of a typically eclectic True/False Film Festival”, A.A. Down, AV Club
“The Film Comment Podcast: True/False 2019”, Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment
“True/False Film Fest Announces 2019 Lineup”, Chris O’Falt, Indiewire
“At True/False Film Festival, documentaries play to a real audience in a real town”, Mary McNamara, LA Times
“Finding Reason at True/False Film Fest”, Danny Kasman, MUBI
“Black Mother Review”, Tayler Montague, Reverse Shot
“True/False 2019: Over the Rainbow, Midnight Traveler, Treasure Island, Let It Burn, A Wild Stream”, Vikram Murthi, RogerEbert.com
“The Hottest August Is a Climate Change Documentary With No Easy Answers”, Sam Adams, Slate
“Film Review: ‘One Child Nation’”, Peter Debruge, Variety
“True/False 2019: Knock Down the House”, Kelli Weston, The Skinny
2018
“True/False Film Festival – Review”, Simran Hans, The Guardian
“True/False Film Festival 2018 Khalik Allah’s Black Mother“, Christopher Grey, Slant Magazine
“True/False Strikes Right Balance Between Local, Global”, Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Daily Tribune
“Festivals: True/False 2018”, Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment
“At True/False Film Fest, Organizers Bring on the Documentaries and Let the Definitions Be Damned”, Chris O’Falt, indieWire
“Courting the impossible: The Task and Bisbee ’17 at True/False 2018“, Irina Trocan, Sight & Sound
“The Unexpected: A Report from True/False Film Fest 2018“, Tayler Montague, Reverse Shot
“True/False 2018 Part 1: Bucking the Trend”, Vikram Muthi, RogerEbert.com
“When It Comes to Telling True Stories, Women Filmmakers Reign Supreme”, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, Broadly
“Adventures in Nonfiction Filmmaking at True/False 2018“, Daniel Kasman, MUBI
“True/False 2018: What Can the Documentarian Do?”, Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“How the Black Audio Film Collective Remixed Fact and Fiction”, Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic
“The Vivienne Westwood Documentary Vivienne Westwood Doesn’t Want You to See”, Hilary Weaver, Vanity Fair
“Interview: Khalik Allah“, Rooney Elmi, Film Comment
“‘You Must Be Reactive in the Face of Danger’: Dieudo Hamadi on Kinshasa Makambo“, Steve Macfarlane, Filmmaker Magazine
2017
“Three Genre-Expanding Documentaries about Racist Crimes of the Past“, Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“True/False 2017 Critic’s Notebook 1: Resistance and Futility“, Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“Take Care of Each Other: Paste at the 2017 True/False Film Fest“, Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine
“How reality TV is getting even more unreal“, Noel Murray, The Week
“True/False Film Festival 2017“, Vikram Murthi, RogerEbert.com
“True/False Film Fest: Ferguson film ‘Whose Streets?,’ from the people who filled them“, Steven Zeitchik, LA Times
“Amid the Good Vibes, True/False Serves Up a Slate of Bleak Fare“, Akiva Gottleib, International Documentary Association
“Heart and Form in the Midwest: The Best of the 2017 True/False Film Festival”, Jordan M. Smith, Nonfics
“In the age of alternative facts, decoding truth in documentary”, Steven Zeitchik, LA Times
“Make It Real: See Through Me”, Eric Hynes, Film Comment
“7 documentaries from the True/False Film Festival that challenge how we perceive reality”, Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
“True/False ’17 Dispatch #1: ‘Cage Fighter,’ ‘Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?’ and ‘All Good Things’”, Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
“Notes from the 2017 True/False Film Festival”, Jason Fox, The Brooklyn Rail
“The True/False Film Festival Takes on Alternative Facts,” Katie Walsh, Playboy
“The No-Label Festival: True/False 2017 and the Politics of Programming,” Charlie Lyne, Sight & Sound
“Polarities and Pyrotechnics: True/False Festival 2017,” Lauren Du Graf, Film Quarterly
2016
“True/False, An Antidote to the Common Film Festival“, Steven Zeitchik, LA Times
“At True/False 2016, Filmmakers Inside the Frame“, Sam Adams, Criticwire
“Entering the Narrative: Highlights from True/False 2016“, Alissa Wilkinson, RogerEbert.com
“Make it Real: Look Ma, We’re All Hands“, Eric Hynes, Film Comment
“What Are You Looking At? A Report from the 2016 True/False Film Fest“, Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine
“Documentary Film Fest True/False 2016 Featured Memorable Characters Galore“, Noel Murray, The AV Club
“True/False Puts the ‘Festive’ in Film Festival“, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“True/False Film Festival Celebrates Story, Teaches Justice“, Abby Olcese, Sojourners
“True/False Journal: A View from a Newbie“, Ken Jacobson, International Documentary Association
2015
“How to Change the World (Maybe)”, Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine
“Indirect Cinema: A Report from True/False Film Fest 2015“, Eric Hynes, Reverse Shot
“The Naked Festival: True/False 2015 versus the rules“, Charlie Lyne, Sight and Sound
“The True/False Film Festival Feeds the Hunger for Great Documentaries, and People to Watch Them With“, Sam Adams, Criticwire
“How True/False Challenges the Way We See Documentary Films“, Ashley Clark, Indiewire
“Crossing Borders at True/False 2015“, Scott Tobias, The Dissolve
“Joshua Oppenheimer’s Manifesto“, Sam Adams, Indiewire
“True/False 2015 Shorts: Former Models, The Woolworths Choir of 1979, My Gal, Rosemarie, and Abandoned Goods“, Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“Time Was the Essence of This Year’s True/False Film Festival“, Ben Godar, Nonfics
“Best in Show: These films, ideas were at the head of True/False 2015 class“, Asher Gelzer-Govatos, Columbia Daily Tribune
“True/False 2015 Wrap Up“, Pete Timmermann, PLAYBACK:stl
2014
“Why True/False Is One of the Most Vital Festivals in America,” Paul Dallas, Indiewire
“Crossing a Divide, Seeking Good,” Lauren Sandler, The New York Times
“Blurred Lines“, Eric Hynes, Moving Image Source
“True/False: A Place for World Premieres?” Robert Greene, Filmmaker Magazine
“Five Women Who Inspired Me at True/False,” Paige Pritchard, The Riveter
“Ugly Ducklings? Fluxus Docs at True/False,” Nick Pinterton, Sight and Sound
“The Freeing Power of True/False’s Free Ride,” Sam Adams, Criticwire
“Documentary and Fiction Cozy up at the True/False Film Festival” Noel Murray, the Dissolve
“The Whole Town’s Talking: Impressions of the 2014 True/False Film Fest,” Ben Sachs, MUBI Notebook
“True/False Diary 1 & True/False Diary 2,” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
2013
“True/False 2013: Two Freewheeling Takes on the Doc Fest,” Nick Pinkerton & Nicolas Rapold, SundanceNOW
“Some Kind of Monster: True/False 2013,” Eric Hynes, Cinema Scope
“True/False Film Fest,” Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago
“True/False 2013 Dispatch #1: These Birds Walk, The Garden of Eden, The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear,” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“True/False 2013 Dispatch #2: Sleepless Nights and Computer Chess,” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“True, False, and Everything in Between,” Brian Brooks, The Film Society of Lincoln Center
“Why True/False 2013 Rocked (And Why True/False Always Rocks),” Tom Roston, POV’s Doc Soup
“True/False ticket sales top 43,000,” Andrew Denney, The Columbia Tribune
“8 Ways True/False Put Its Charming, Small Host City on the Film Festival Map,” Bryce Renninger, Indiewire
“True/False Festival Report,” Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine
2012
“Forever Young: Dispatching the 2012 True/False Film Fest,” Eric Hynes, Cinema Scope
“One of the world’s great film festivals takes place in Columbia, Missouri. True or False?” Sean Farnel, Ripping Reality
“A Carnival of Documentaries,” Kevin Lee, RogerEbert.com
“True/False Dispatch, Part 2,” Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
“True/False 2012: Film Festival as Pure Bliss,” Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail
“Truth Talking,” Eric Hynes and Farihah Zaman, Sundance Now
“True/False 2012,” Farihah Zaman, Huffington Post
“5 Reasons Why True/False Sets the Standard for Small Film Festivals,” Peter Knegt, Indiewire
“True/False Film Fest Works Its Magic Again,” Cathy Salter, Columbia Tribune
“My Five Favorite Documentaries from True/False 2012,” Tom Roston, Doc Soup
“True/False Ticket Sales Top 37,000,” Columbia Tribune
“Analog Senses in a Digital World: Between Futile Nostalgia and Weary Optimism at True/False 2012,” Gerald Sim, Framework
2011
“South by Midwest,” Eric Hynes, Cinema Scope
“Truth and Dare,” Dennis Lim, Artforum
“True/False 2011: Festival Report,” Charlotte Cook, The Documentary Blog
“True/False 2011: The Eight Documentaries You Must See,” Basil Tsiokos, Indiewire
“True/False: Documentary Film Festival Round Up,” David Moats, The Quietus
“Environmentalism, In Other Words, and Other Reflections from True/False 2011,” Gerald Sim, Framework
PREVIOUS YEARS
“Curating a Gem of a Fest: True/False Reflects on First Six Years,” Brian Brooks, Indiewire
“True/False 2010: A Festival Apart,” Pamela Cohn, Hammer to Nail
“True/False Film Festival: Dispatch One,” Vadim Rizov, House Next Door
“Festival Focus: True/False Film Festival,” Doug Whyte, Documentary Magazine
“True/False: Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” Hank Waters, Columbia Tribune
“Filmmakers’ Party a Time of Gratitude,” Janese Silvey, Columbia Tribune
“At a Young Missouri Doc Fest, Exploring the Balance Between True and False,” Eugene Hernandez, Indiewire
“True/False Film Festival 2010,” Gerald Sim, Framework