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.
2020 Ringleaders
Miriam Bale Artistic Director, Indie Memphis Film Festival
Kamau Bilal Director, Baby Brother
Sarah-Tai Black Film Programmer, The Royal Cinema
Lyric C. Cabral Director, The Rashomon Effect
Julian Carrington Distribution Manager, Hot Docs
Dessane Lopez Cassell Editor of Reviews, Hyperallergic
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers Festival Director and Cofounder, Third Horizon Film Festival
Jon-Sesrie Goff Executive Director, The Flaherty
Allison Glenn Associate Curator, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Martine Granby Producer of Workshops and Labs, UnionDocs
Robert Greene Director, Bisbee ‘17
Alana Hauser Coordinating Producer, NYT Op-Docs
Roseli Ilano Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships, Pop-Up Magazine
Amber Espinosa-Jones Manager of Outreach & Inclusion, Sundance Institute
Darol Kae Programming Assistant, ARRAY
David Magdael President, David Magdael & Associates
Lydia Ogwang Coordinator, TIFF Cinematheque
Sierra Pettengill Director, Graven Image
Bilal Qureshi Culture Writer and Radio Journalist, Film Quarterly
Jason Silverman Publications Editor, Telluride Film Festival
Brett Story Director, The Hottest August
Paul Sturtz Co-Founder, True/False Film Fest
Nicole Tsien Associate Producer, POV
Chloë Walter-Wallace Documentary Lab Manager, Firelight Media
Steve Witzig Associate Professor, UMass-Dartmouth and former print traffic controller for T/F
Stacey Woelfel Director, Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
Staff
JEANELLE AUGUSTIN Film Programmer
BARBIE BANKS Cinema Director
CHRIS BOECKMANN Programming Director, Ragtag Film Society
JEREMY BROWN Executive Director, Ragtag Film Society
CAMELLIA COSGRAY Fest Director
AMIR GEORGE Film Programmer
TED ROGERS Programmer, Ragtag Cinema
DAVID WILSON, Co-Conspirator
& your friendly Ringmaster: LINDSEY ARRINGTON