Each year, a (mostly) new crop of Ringleaders assume the coveted role of magnanimous festival emcees. Seen on stage before and after all screenings, they facilitate snappy introductions and attentive Q&As with the special guests here to present their films to True/False audiences. The responsibility of being a Ringleader is offered to industry professionals and festival friends from across the world, who have demonstrated the chops necessary to be an agent of True/False, to lure them to the middle of Missouri. It is always a privilege and a delight to have each of them here working with us for this brief but bustling weekend.
2024 Ringleaders
Nell Augustin Director of Original Voices Documentary Films, NBCU
Steven Bognar Ohio-based documentary filmmaker
Brian Booton RFS Board President
Julian Carrington Managing Director, Racial Equity Media Collective
Bedatri Datta Choudhury Journalist and festival programmer
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers Co-founder, Third Horizon
Brit Fryer Producer & Director (The Script)
Robert Greene Filmmaker / Murray Center
Daniel Hymanson Filmmaker (So Late So Soon, T/F 2020)
Eric Hynes Film Critic & Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image
Zara Meerza Screenwriter, Filmmaker & Publisher (Documentary -)
Luke W Moody Head of BFI Doc Society Fund & Producer at LONO
Kayla Myers Programmer & Black Creators Forum Manager, Indie Memphis Film Festival
Theresa Navarro Co-Director and COO at Catapult Film Fund
Inney Prakash Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground
Soheil Rezayazdi Nonfiction Programs Manager at The Gotham Film & Media Institute
Maria Santos Funds Program Officer, International Documentary Association
Amada Torruella Artist, Filmmaker and Film Curator
Stephanie Wang-Breal Filmmaker (Florence from Ohio)
David Wilson Co-Founder, True/False Film Fest
Farihah Zaman Filmmaker + Critic
2024 Ringleaders on Staff
ARIN LIBERMAN RFS Executive Director
KHAULA MALIK Fest Programmer
EYNAR PINEDA Fest Programmer
FARAMOLA SHONEKAN RFS Director of Community Partnerships & Education
CHLOE TRAYNER RFS Artistic Director
& your friendly Programming Coordinator and Ringmaster: LINDSEY ARRINGTON