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.
2022 Ringleaders
JEANELLE AUGUSTIN Manager of Film Fellowships and Artist Development at NBCUniversal
BLAIR BARNES Curator at Vimeo
CHRISTIANNE BENEDICT True/False Screening Committee
OPAL BENNETT Co-Producer at POV
BRIAN BOOTON Ragtag Film Society Board Member
JULIAN CARRINGTON Distribution Manager & Industry Funds Programmer at Hot Docs
SAMARA CHADWICK Executive Director at The Flaherty
SARAH DAWSON Film Programmer at IDFA
MIA DONOVAN Filmmaker (Dope Is Death)
JASON FITZROY JEFFERS Founding Director at Third Horizon
LIZ FORNANGO True/False Screening Committee
DEVIKA GIRISH Co-Deputy Editor at Film Comment
ROBERT GREENE Filmmaker (Procession)
DAKOTA HOMMES True/False Screening Committee
ERIC HYNES Film Critic & Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image
AISHA JAMAL Film Programmer at Hot Docs
JANAÍNA OLIVEIRA Head Programmer at Zózimo Bulbul Black Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro
DELIA RAINEY True/False Screening Committee
JOSH RUNNELS Artist & Educator
ZOÉ SAMUDZI Writer & Scholar
STEPHANIE SHONEKAN Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri
CHLOË WALTERS-WALLACE Director of Regional Initiatives for Firelight Media
DAVID WILSON True/False Co-conspirator
2022 Staff
BARBIE BANKS RFS Co-Custodian
CAMELLIA COSGRAY RFS Co-Custodian
AMIR GEORGE Film Programmer & Art Curator
ERIC ALLEN HATCH Film Programmer & Music Director
ARIN LIBERMAN RFS Co-Custodian
ROBIN ROBINSON Film & Synapses Programmer
TED ROGERS Programmer, Ragtag Cinema
FARAMOLA SHONEKAN RFS Director of Community Partnerships & Education
CHLOE TRAYNER RFS Artistic Director
& your friendly Programming Coordinator and Ringmaster: LINDSEY ARRINGTON