Boasting an impressive variety of instrumentation and three unforgettable voices, Pearl and the Beard routinely bring down the house with their foot-stomping anthems and soaring harmonies. The soulful trio hailing from Brooklyn made the trip to Columbia for the last two Fests and have quickly become crowd favorites. Here Corey Ranesberg captures the group playing … Continued
The Waiting Room was one of the most talked about films at T/F 2012, and in the months since the Fest the conversation has spread throughout the country. Following a successful run in the Bay Area and at NYC’s IFC Center, The Waiting Room has moved on to D.C., Sacramento and Boston with more cities soon to follow. … Continued
The sixth installment of DocuMemories takes place this Monday, November 26th at Ragtag Cinema. This time we feature one of the most bizarre films ever to screen at True/False. Family Instinct (T/F 2011) takes us to rural Latvia where Zanda anxiously awaits the release from prison of the man who is both her brother and the father of her … Continued
IDFA, the world’s biggest and most prestigious documentary film festival, is now underway in Amsterdam. IDFA has always been an important event on the True/False calendar, responsible for significant discoveries such as Last Train Home, Burma VJ, Afghan Star and Family Instinct. This year T/F co-director Paul Sturtz and associate programmer Chris Boeckmann have made the journey … Continued
According to legend, Bramble formed along the trail of an epic bike trip down the length of the west coast. The Salt Lake City based foursome has brought the spirit of the road to T/F for the last few years. In the video below, shot by Corey Ransberg in our 2012 Box Office, Bramble perform … Continued
Election day is finally here as our long campaign season draws to a close. If you’re back from the polls and looking to fill the void left by the missing the attack ads, some electoral cinema may be just the ticket. Filmmakers have been aiming their cameras at the gears of our democracy for a … Continued
True/False would not be True/False without our buskers. They infuse the entire weekend with a vital energy. And no one represents this energy better than Toughcats, favorites at T/F since 2008. The tireless indie-bluegrass trio is part of a loyal group of True/Falsers from Maine who make an annual journey to Columbia for the Fest. Corey … Continued
Chris Marker, the enigmatic filmmaker, writer, photographer, multimedia artist and philosopher, died this summer in Paris on his 91st birthday. A member of the French Resistance during World War Two, Marker’s filmmaking career began in the 1950s as part of Paris’s Left Bank Film movement and ended just before his death with strange video experiments … Continued
DocuMemories, our retrospective series counting down the months until T/F 2013, continues on Monday, October 29th at Ragtag Cinema with October Country (T/F 2009). October Country presents a single year, from Halloween to Halloween, in the life of the Mosher family of upstate New York. Trapped by cycles of war, absent fathers, teen pregnancy and … Continued
The True/False Film Fest quite simply could not exist without Ragtag Cinema. Over the last 14 years Ragtag has grown in Columbia, Missouri from an obscure film series at the Blue Note, to an intrepid one-screen Cinemacafe on Tenth Street, to, finally, an essential two-screen theater in Hittsville. And since 2004 we’ve grown alongside Ragtag, always … Continued
