RFS COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Ragtag Film Society has joined forces with five local community organizations in a formalized Community Partnership program. The 2025-2027 partners are:
- Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
- Race Matters, Friends
- State Historical Society of Missouri
- Truman School of Government & Public Affairs
This program’s primary collaborative project, The Show Me Series offers free monthly community screenings at Ragtag Cinema throughout the year. A program of free and monthly screenings followed by community conversations, the Show Me Series is a co-curatorial endeavor between Ragtag Cinema and its 5 Community Partners. Seeking to evolve our film-centric space into one that embraces our communities, this series uses film, as an art form, to prompt rich and poignant discussions The Show Me Series launched at Ragtag Cinema in July 2021.
FEST PROGRAMS
SHOW ME TRUE/FALSE
The annual Show Me True/False screening carves out a community-centric space at the Fest around a film that reflects the collective hurdles and hopes of our locale. Recognizing that True/False would not be what it is without the community that hosts it, it is designed to celebrate our Community Partners and offers all Columbia residents an opportunity to experience the joys of the Fest.
Show Me T/F is part of the year-round Show Me Series—a key part of Ragtag Film Society’s audience-development and community-engagement initiatives. Post-film community conversations transport audiences beyond content to interrogate form and intention, weaving historical contexts with the present.
In an effort to remove barriers to entry and shift our collective pendulum closer to equity, inclusion, and unity, tickets for the Show Me T/F screening on the Saturday of the Fest are offered at a discounted rate of $6 and can be purchased at the Box Office, online, or via the Q. Following the screening, there will be an extended Q&A with the filmmakers.
