The T/F Box Office has always been an essential hub for managing the hustle and bustle of the Fest. The 2012 edition, located in the old Pasta Factory, took things to a new level. The inviting brick building at the corner of Broadway and Hitt gave us enough room to stretch our legs a bit. In … Continued
Forty two years after the release of his unappreciated masterpiece Cold Fact, Sixto Rodriguez finally arrived in Columbia, MO last weekend on Friday September 21st. The Detroit based singer-songwriter performed for thousands in Peace Park as part of the 6th Annual Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival, which also featured performances by Marty Stuart, John Mayal, … Continued
Editorial note: this essay was originally published in July of 2011. We are sharing it again following Forbidden Lie$ screening in our retrospective series DocuMemories. Even before I began working with the festival in any official capacity, I’d spent an undue amount of time pondering the meaning of the name David and Paul chose for … Continued
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (T/F 2012) is now playing at our sister theater Ragtag Cinema. This film introduces us to Ai Weiwei, a provocative artist and political activist, challenging the authoritarian Chinese state with wit, charisma, and intelligence as he pioneers a new style of activism for the age of Twitter. Director Alison Klayman created … Continued
DocuMemories continues at Ragtag Cinema on Monday, September 24th at 6:30 with Forbidden Lie$ (T/F 2008). In this film director Anna Broinowski introduces us to Norma Khouri, one of the most memorable subjects in the nine year history of True/False. Norma is the author of a best selling memoir titled either Forbidden Love or Honor Lost. The book tells the story of … Continued
In the lead up to the 10th True/False Film Fest, we’ve been digging through the archive a bit, looking over the collection of films we’ve shown. These films graced our screens for only a matter of hours, but we still feel connected with them, and privileged that we got to share them with you. It … Continued
True/False 2012 came to superb finish at the historic Missouri Theater with Searching for Sugar Man, Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul’s telling of the stranger than fiction story of Detroit based singer-songwriter Rodriguez. Releasing a mere two records in the early 70s, Rodriguez attracted only a cult following in the States, but improbably inspired the anti-apartheid movement half a world away … Continued
This is the second part of my conversation with Isis Aquarian, historian and archive keeper of the Source Family. This captivating New Age group was the the subject of our 2012 Boone Dawdle film, The Source. You can read the first part of the conversation here. -Dan Steffen TRUE/FALSE: How did your role in the Source Family evolve? … Continued
The 2012 Boone Dawdle was a rip-roaring success, and, we hope a real hoot for all who participated. Thanks everyone who made the day hum. We’d like to thank our guests Jodie Wille and Isis Aquarian for sharing the fascinating story of The Source , music headliners CAVE for a far-out open-air concert + Jerusalem and the … Continued
DocuMemories, the T/F retrospective, continues at Ragtag Cinema on Monday, August 27 with The Invention of Dr. Nakamats (T/F 2010). Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s hilarious film introduces us to Yoshiro Nakamatsu, a relentlessly earnest Japanese inventor responsible for over 4,000 patents. The doctor’s inventions include the floppy disk, a toilet seat lifter, spectacles in the shape of … Continued
