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True/False 2022 Films Preview
The True/False Podcast - February 09, 2022 22:58 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsA chat with True/False Film Festival programmers' about the newly announced slate of films for this year's festival.
Revisiting Weirdness with Lance Oppenheim
The True/False Podcast - May 21, 2021 21:33 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe True/False Film Fest celebrates the complex, surprising and hilarious world we share, and the documentary films that capture it. The True/False podcast dives deep into conversations with filmmakers about their films, and other topics. Presented by KBIA. The show is on hiatus for the 2023 fest...
Oscillation with Khalik Allah (I WALK ON WATER) and Ursula Liang (DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL)
The True/False Podcast - May 06, 2021 00:15 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode of the True/False Podcast: a conversation from last year's festival between filmmakers Ursula Liang and Khalik Allah. Both were at True/False to show their latest features. Liang's film Down a Dark Stairwell documents the effects of a police shooting of an unarmed Black man. Allah...
Intimacy with Rikkí Wright (A SONG ABOUT LOVE)
The True/False Podcast - April 28, 2021 22:22 - 24 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis week, we’re continuing our dispatches from True/False 2020 with a conversation between artist and filmmaker Rikkí Wright and programmer Jeanelle Augustin. Wright’s work is often deeply personal and offers commentary on how she interacts with and understands the world around her. “A Song Abou...
2021 Films Preview with Angela Catalano and Amir George
The True/False Podcast - April 22, 2021 02:57 - 22 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMany things about this year's True/False Film Festival have changed, but one that hasn't is our annual programmer preview. This year, programmers Angela Catalano and Amir George join the podcast to preview some of the films coming to this year's outdoor fest, which starts May 5. Angela and Amir p...
Retaining Humanity with David France and Maxim Lapunov (WELCOME TO CHECHNYA)
The True/False Podcast - April 19, 2021 18:52 - 21 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe continue our dispatches from last year's festival with the final True/False Podcast episode recorded in-studio during 2020. The guests were filmmaker David France and Maxim Lapunov, who was imprisoned and tortured as part of the Chechen government's persecution of its LGBTQ community. Lapunov ...
Dimensions with Steve James and Meredith Zielke
The True/False Podcast - April 08, 2021 04:43 - 21 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEvery year during the festival, True/False organizes field sessions: conversations between filmmakers about their films, experiences, and anything else that interests them. In this week's episode of the True/False Podcast, we’ll be listening in on one such conversation between filmmakers Meredith...
'Objectivity' with Elegance Bratton (PIER KIDS)
The True/False Podcast - April 01, 2021 00:40 - 18 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNonfiction filmmakers often end up with a lot more material than they could ever use. That's something Elegance Bratton ran into making his debut feature, Pier Kids. The film portrays life in New York for gay and transgender youth living on the Christopher Street Pier. Producing the film involved...
Fashioning A Film Festival Amid The Pandemic: Part Two
The True/False Podcast - March 25, 2021 04:04 - 15 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe 2021 True/False Film Festival will look completely different from any previous fest. In the interest of social distancing and safety, all of the films will screen outdoors, at Stephens Lake Park in the fest's hometown of Columbia, Missouri. The True/False Podcast spoke with fest organizers to...
Fashioning A Film Festival Amid The Pandemic: Part One
The True/False Podcast - March 17, 2021 23:02 - 15 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Missouri was announced on March 7. That was day two of last year's True/False Film Festival. During the festival, South by Southwest — one of the biggest film festivals in the world — announced it was canceling its March dates, and the world of film festiva...
New Season Announcement, And Hindsight Series Preview!
The True/False Podcast - March 05, 2021 20:06 - 10 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's been a long break, but the True/False Podcast is coming back, and soon! Before the new season starts in earnest on March 17, though, we wanted to preview True/False's online film retrospective called Hindsight. The series runs over eight weeks leading up to this year's festival, and it featu...
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...
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."
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 (...
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 ...
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...
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...
Rough Cut (Part 2)
The True/False Podcast - January 24, 2019 19:08 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDirectors Agnieszka Zwiefka and Daniel Hymanson attended the 2018 Rough Cut Retreat; where they got feedback on early versions of their films. We checked in with them about 6 months later to get an intimate view of the filmmaking process in real time. In this episode, we’ll be talking about the r...
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