Latest Kbia Podcast Episodes
You Don't Say: 'As life impacts us, how do we choose to respond?'
You Don't Say - May 11, 2020 18:55 - 7 minutes -Barbra Horrell is a life-long Columbian who graduated in 1959, with the last segregated class at Douglass High School. She went on to become the first black student from Columbia to get a full ride in scholarships to MU, and then spent 45 years with the university before retiring. Horrell is a ke...
You Don't Say: 'Everyone knew they were on the threshold of change.'
You Don't Say - May 11, 2020 17:49 - 7 minutes -KBIA's conversation series "You Don't Say" explores the black experience in Columbia, then and now.
Programming Update
The True/False Podcast - March 12, 2020 22:31 - 1 minute - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHi all — as you're probably aware, we are in the midst of a global pandemic. What that means for us at KBIA is all our time is taken up covering what that looks like on the ground here. In light of that, this week's episode is being postponed. We'll be back next week with filmmaker and journalist...
Weirdness with Lance Oppenheim (SOME KIND OF HEAVEN)
The True/False Podcast - March 05, 2020 19:03 - 22 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this week’s episode, True/False Programmer Jeanelle Augustin talks with filmmaker Lance Oppenheim about his latest documentary, “Some Kind of Heaven." In the film, Oppenheim tells the story of residents at The Villages, in Florida - the country’s largest retirement community. The Villages — si...
Geography with Brett Story (THE HOTTEST AUGUST)
The True/False Podcast - February 27, 2020 22:17 - 31 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsClimate change is an issue so broad and pervasive it is easy to abstract. It looms large over so many aspects of life it can feel less like a subject to explore, and more like a mood or a feeling, a doom permeating aspects of every story told in the 20th century. But instead of approaching it fro...
Perception with Sophy Romvari (PUMPKIN MOVIE)
The True/False Podcast - February 20, 2020 23:36 - 24 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsA film can never exactly capture how we experience a moment, or time passing, but it can evoke those sensations through its structure or editing or cinematography. In this week’s episode, we talk with a filmmaker whose films reflect that conflict — True/False alum Sophy Romvari. She’s a Toronto-b...
True/False 2020 Films Preview
The True/False Podcast - February 13, 2020 21:50 - 31 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn this week's episode, we're previewing some of the films coming to True/False this year, with festival programmers Jeanelle Augustin, Chris Boeckmann and Amir George. The line-up includes a whopping 38 feature films, 26 shorts and multiple repertory programs. Jeanelle, Chris and Amir talk us th...
Rejection with Zia Anger (MY FIRST FILM)
The True/False Podcast - February 07, 2020 03:15 - 30 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHaving your work rejected is part and parcel of being a filmmaker, be it when submitting to festivals, applying for funding, trying to sell a film or get distribution. But it can be hard to separate self worth from work, or to reconcile the reality of the industry with personal beliefs and values...
Show Me The State: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Show Me The State - October 28, 2019 20:29 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsLaura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to becoming a worldwide author is interlaced with pure hardship.
Show Me The State: Lake Of The Ozarks
Show Me The State - October 21, 2019 19:34 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsToday, on a map, Lake of the Ozarks looks like a sprouting, twisting tree root that covers 86 square miles. The over 1000 miles of shoreline are dotted with resorts and cabins.
Show Me The State: Sunken Steamboats Of The Missouri River
Show Me The State - October 09, 2019 15:17 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn the steamboat’s glory days right before the Civil War, there would be on average, 60 boats traveling through different ports along the Missouri River each day. Cargo of agricultural products, furs and settlers would move up and down the river. From St. Louis to Montana.
Show Me The State: The Gay Purge
Show Me The State - October 01, 2019 17:45 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn the 1940s and ‘50s, designated police officers and university administrators were on the lookout for gay students and faculty.
Show Me The State: The Lost Disney Park
Show Me The State - September 22, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWalt Disney famously spent a good chunk of his youth growing up in Missouri. Just ask the residents of Marceline, Walt’s boyhood town.
Engagement with Robert Greene (BISBEE '17)
The True/False Podcast - July 11, 2019 14:47 - 22 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn the world of nonfiction filmmaking, the idea of "engagement" is often raised as a key part of the process. How does a film engage the audience, or with its subjects, what conversations does it start, or augment? For Robert Greene, whose film "Bisbee '17" screened at the 2018 True/False Film Fe...
Replay: Politics Ditto... Ditto
The True/False Podcast - July 03, 2019 16:45 - 26 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe next season of the True/False Podcast doesn't start up for a few more months still, but we thought it was a good time to re-feature an episode from last season. The Edge of Democracy, which screened at this year's festival, is now streaming on Netflix, so we're bringing back our episode with ...
Bumpers with Chelsea Myers
The True/False Podcast - April 05, 2019 20:44 - 30 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBumpers are the short films that play before screenings at festivals. True/False has different bumpers for each day of the festival, each related to that year's theme. For this episode of the True/False Podcast, Allison Coffelt sat down with Chelsea Myers, of Tiny Attic Productions, which produce...
Replay: Voice with Deborah Stratman
The True/False Podcast - March 28, 2019 15:30 - 32 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this archived edition of the True False podcast, we revisit a conversation with film-maker Deborah Stratman about the power of voice in her film "The Illinois Parables."
Show Me The State: Jim The Wonder Dog
Show Me The State - March 25, 2019 16:28 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHow many tricks can your dog do? Sit? Stay? Rollover?
Shorts with Charlie Lyne (LASTING MARKS)
The True/False Podcast - March 21, 2019 20:22 - 23 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSometimes, documentary shorts can be seen as stepping stones for filmmakers who want to direct feature-length films, or as afterthoughts on a festival program. But, given their lower costs and shorter runtimes, shorts can allow for a wealth of experimentation, with narrative and format, that feat...
Politics Ditto
The True/False Podcast - March 14, 2019 17:43 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFiguring out how to tell large-scale stories that affect millions of people can be a daunting task for any filmmaker. Sometimes, personal experience is the most effective way in. In this conversation, taken from the Field Session "Politics Ditto," from this year's festival, directors Nanfu Wang (...
Show Me The State: The Honey War
Show Me The State - March 11, 2019 20:10 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDid you know Missouri and Iowa almost went to war in the 1800s? Each claimed ownership over a strip of land along the border and believed it had the right to tax the people living there.
Within Reason
The True/False Podcast - March 07, 2019 20:27 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAnand Patwardhan is a filmmaker who has been making documentaries on the socio-political reality of India for over four decades. His latest film, a four-hour and twenty-minute epic titled "Reason," chronicles India's shift from secular democracy toward Hindu fundamentalism and was shown at this y...
The Journey with Emelie Mahdavian
The True/False Podcast - February 28, 2019 22:44 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEmelie Mahdavian is the writer, editor and producer of this year's True Life Fund recipient "Midnight Traveler," showing at True False 2019. The film is directed by film-maker Hassan Fazili, who documented his own family's journey from Afghanistan as they fled the Taliban. Fazili shot the entire ...
Show Me The State: Missourah? Or Missouree? Who's right?
Show Me The State - February 25, 2019 15:24 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHow do you pronounce Missouri? And why do you say it that way?
Narration with Miko Revereza (NO DATA PLAN)
The True/False Podcast - February 21, 2019 22:38 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn his first feature film, “No data plan,” True/False alum Miko Revereza eschews a faceless off-screen narrator in favor of a voiceless, subtitled one, along with interviews of friends and family. “No data plan” reinvents the road trip movie as a film where the bulk of the action happens off-screen.
Happenings with Dora Garcia (SEGUNDA VEZ)
The True/False Podcast - February 14, 2019 22:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, we’ll be listening to a conversation between True/False’s Paul Sturtz and Dora Garcia, director of the film “ Segunda Vez ." The staged documentary is anchored in the “happenings” - which are part performance art pieces, part social experiments - of Argentinian theorist and psych...
Show Me The State: Sedalia Tries To Steal The Capital
Show Me The State - February 11, 2019 16:01 - 29 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWhat would the state look like today if the capital wasn't Jefferson City? But Sedalia?
True/False 2019 Films Preview
The True/False Podcast - February 07, 2019 22:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn this episode, we’re previewing this year’s films and filmmakers with three True/False programmers, Chris Boeckmann, Amir George and Abby Sun. This year’s True/False film line-up includes 36 new nonfiction films, 5 repertory films, and 18 new shorts. With so many films, we’ve asked Chris, Amir ...
Musicality with Morgan Neville
The True/False Podcast - January 31, 2019 22:38 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWIth upbeat and affirmational songs like “It’s Such a Good Feeling,” and “It’s You I Like,” music was at the heart of Mister Rogers’ message, and how he expressed his worldview. It’s fitting, then, that music plays a key part in Academy Award Winner Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, whi...
Show Me The State: The Legend Of Doc Annie
Show Me The State - January 28, 2019 18:28 - 23 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIf you grew up in 1970s Poplar Bluff, you likely heard of the story of Doc Annie. Legend has it, Doc Annie was a witch-like woman who operated a haunted hospital in the woods. She kept fetuses in jars of formaldehyde there. She also would throw babies into an old well called “the pit.”