Our 2013 True Life Fund Film, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, premieres tonight on HBO. This film is director Sebastian Junger’s moving tribute to his lost friend and colleague, the photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed while photographing the Libyan civil war in 2011. This year … Continued
Tonight! One night only! Fake It So Real (T/F 2011) is playing online for free! Enter the lives of the dedicated men of the Millennium Wrestling Federation as they spend a week preparing for a big show. You can watch Fake It between 7:30-9:30 Eastern/6:30-8:30 Central tonight on the UStream link you’ll find embedded here. Following the … Continued
Each year, the True/False Film Fest selects one film as its True Life Fund recipient. This is a way for us to give back to that film’s subject who has made a significant achievement in selfless social impact. When documentary subjects share their stories with us they not only reveal painful details about their lives, they … Continued
Chase Whiteside and Erik Stoll, the team that brought us the unflinching taxidermy short Lifelike (T/F 2011), created a short film during last month’s fest. Staring Eyes documents the shared anticipation in the moments before a T/F screening at Ragtag Cinema. Take a look.
Downtown Columbia’s main artery, Alley A, was adorned during True/False 2013 by “Stilted”. This strange threshold was California-based artist Yulia Pinkusevich’s take on our year ten theme, “the Collective Architecture of the Impossible”. Our T/F video team talks with Yulia about her art’s use of perspective and shares images of her finished product in this … Continued
The multi-media music project Folk to Folk shot a series of videos at True/False 2013, capturing stirring performances from the T/F busking army. In the second entry, the Brooklyn-based duo Mountain Animation jam on the banjo and violin during a showcase at Cafe Berlin. If you want to hear more, check out Mountain Animation‘s new album, Lava … Continued
Mark your calendars now, the True/False Film Fest returns in 2014 February 27th-March 2nd!
Over the past few weeks, many people have written kind words about their True/False experiences. Here are a few of our favorites. Film critic Nick Pinkerton and Nicolas Rapold had an amusing conversation in SundanceNOW about their first trip to our small mid-western town. Nicolas Rapold: I too was suspicious, especially when I heard the verb … Continued
True/False 2013 has come and gone, a heady whirlwind of art, conversation and celebration. We’re still swapping stories and laughs and trying to come to terms with it all. Fortunately, a team of talented, professional photographers contributed their services and captured dazzling images all for us all weekend long. We asked the members of this … Continued
Congratulations to T/F co-conspirator David Wilson and his co-director AJ Schnack who just received Special Jury Recognition for Directing for their film We Always Lie to Strangers at South by Southwest. Pete Bland reports.
