True/False Film Fest 2012
TRUE/FALSE 2012
By Don Simpson | February 8, 2012
True/False 2011 marked my very first trip to Columbia and boy did I walk away smitten with the quaint Missouri college town. I loved the restaurants (especially Main Squeeze!), cafes and bars; the local people (many of whom worked as volunteers for True/False) were incredibly friendly and accommodating; and Columbia was just a great city for walking around (despite the cold temperatures outside).
Thanks to the condensed layout of the venues, I relied solely upon the soles of my feet for transportation around True/False. Most of the theaters are not traditional theatrical venues (meaning the projector and screen are not permanent fixtures in the venues); instead, True/False converts hotel ballrooms, music venues and churches into uniquely atmospheric theaters. (My past experiences with makeshift theatrical venues at film festivals has been sour at best, due primarily to poor projection quality and seemingly unavoidable technical problems, but the projection and sound at True/False was consistently exemplary.)
Besides the plethora of amazing documentaries (several of which made my Favorite Documentary Films of 2011 list), True/False brilliantly interweaves live music into the festival – most screenings feature an opening band or busker who perform while festival-goers settle into their seats (some of my personal favorites from T/F 2011 were Bramble, Cindy Wolfe, Nature Walk, Richard the Lionhearted, and Run On Sentence).
To be perfectly frank, I have been counting the days to T/F 2012 ever since I drove away from T/F 2011. Today’s announcement of the line-up for T/F 2012 escalated my anticipation tenfold… So, without further ado…
An international lineup of 38 feature films and 19 short was unveiled today by organizers of the True/False Film Festival.
True/False 2012 Features
Bully : Lee Hirsch
¡Vivan Las Antipodas! : Victor Kossakovsky
1/2 Revolution : Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim
Abendland : Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry : Alison Klayman
The Ambassador : Mads Brügger
Argentinian Lesson : Wojciech Staron
The Belovs : Victor Kossakovsky
Building Babel : David Osit
Canícula : Jose Ãlvarez
Comic‐Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope : Morgan Spurlock
The Connection : Shirley Clarke
Detropia : Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Going Up the Stairs : Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Gypsy Davy : Rachel Leah Jones
Herman’s House : Angad Bhalla Sub. by Ed Barreveld
How to Survive a Plague : David France
The Imposter : Bart Layton
The Island President : Jon Shenk
Low & Clear : Kahlil Hudson and Tyler Hughen
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present : Matthew Akers
Me @ The Zoo : Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch
Only the Young : Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet
The Queen of Versailles : Lauren Greenfield
Searching for Sugar Man : Malik Bendjelloul
Secret Screening BLUE
Secret Screening GOLD
Secret Screening GREEN
Secret Screening LAVENDER
Secret Screening ORANGESecret Screening PURPLE
Secret Screening RED
Summer of Giacomo : Alessandro Comodin
WIP: These Birds Walk: Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq
Undefeated : Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin
V/H/S : Adam Wingard, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, David Bruckner, Joe Swanberg, and Ti West
The Vanishing Spring Light : Xun “Fish” Yu
The Waiting Room : Peter Nicks
True/False 2012 Shorts
Grandpa Looked Like William Powell : David B. Levy
Old Man and the Lady : Markku Heikkinen
1989 (When I was 5 Years Old) : Thor Ochner
Aaron Burr, Pt. 2 or Aaron Burr, Part 2 : Dana O’Keefe
Goodbye, Mandima : Robert‐Jan Lacombe
Claes : Martina Carlstedt
Where is My Mind? : Martin Ginestie
Heart : Jeremy Zagar
Four Cubic Feet of Space : Tony Gault
Back to Land : Tijana Petrovic
The Lion Wearers : Narges Abyar
Full‐Time Ministry : Helen Scheer
Sunshine : Doug Nichol
Family Nightmare : Dustin Guy Defa
Into The Middle of Nowhere : Anna Frances Ewert
Paraíso : Nadav Kurtz
Meaning of Robots : Matt Lenski
Love Competition : Brent Hoff
Pluto Declaration : Travis Wilkerson
For more information go to the True/False 2012 website.
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