Fake It So Real (T/F 2011), director Robert Greene’s vĂ©ritĂ© plunge into the bizarre and wonderful world of the Millennium Wrestling Federation, is now available on Video On Demand and iTunes. The film has drawn rave reviews and insightful commentary from the likes of Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, Tom Hall of Hammer to … Continued
Warm weather has returned, and brought with it our national pastime, baseball. It’s time to follow the advice of little league coaches the nation over and “get your head in the game” with some baseball docs. Of course, when it comes to baseball and documentary the elephant in the room is Baseball, Ken Burns’s recently … Continued
It may well be the most talked-about documentary in America. The subjects of Bully and its director, Lee Hirsch, have appeared on nearly every news program in the country since their visit to Columbia in March for True/False Film Fest. The filmmaker used hidden cameras on school buses and inside real middle and high schools … Continued
The True/False Film Fest distributed $30,000 to the five families featured in the film Bully, this year’s True Life Fund selection about the impact of bullying on society. Capacity crowds attended screenings of Bully at the Missouri Theatre and Jesse Auditorium during True/False 2012. The True Life Fund—presented by the True/False Film Fest with support from The Crossing Church and media … Continued
Two short films from True/False 2012 are already available to watch online: Doug Nichol’s short Sunshine introduces us to an American ad man losing his mind in Shanghai. This film was part of our This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven shorts program: Anna Frances Ewert’s Into the Middle of Nowhere, a brief, enchanting excursion into the … Continued
More post-fest enthusiasm has been coming down the transom: The film website Hammer to Nail posted this zesty recap; Filmmaker magazine’s Vadim Rizov covers the fest in two thoughtful reports; and last but not least, Eric Hynes at Cinema Scope wrote a wonderful dispatch on the weekend.
Roger Ebert on T/F 2012 (on Facebook): This event at the U of Missouri is a good example of a film festival that has defined a role for itself, and built up a loyal audience over 10 years. Why spend a fortune to go to Cannes when there may be a terrific event like this … Continued
The independent film website Sundance Now has posted six short interviews with filmmakers screening their work at T/F 2012. Watch videos of True Vision Award–winner Victor Kossakovsky, Gypsy Davy‘s Rachel Leah Jones, How to Survive a Plague‘s David France, and others on Sundance Now’s blog or on Youtube.
Here is Tiny Attic’s fourth and final highlight reel from the last day of the fest. (The T/F Photo Page has also been updated with wonderful images from Sunday. There are also a zillion photos on Facebook.) Many many thanks to literally thousands of people for literally thousands of things—way too many to enumerate here. … Continued
With the buzz of this year’s 9th annual True/False Film Fest still ringing in our ears, we’re excited to announce the dates for next year’s gala tenth anniversary Fest. Mark your calendars: True/False Film Fest TENTH ANNIVERSARY February 28–March 3, 2013 As you might expect, it’s going to be a big year for the festival. … Continued
