If you click here, you'll be able to see the wonderful program David Wilson, Paul Sturtz and team have on tap for this year's iteration of the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO.
Shortly after Sundance every year, Wilson and Sturtz unveil their film program and other special events filled with the most interesting and compelling films, folks and issues they run across on their travels throughout the year, culling the best of the best from the circuit, but also delving a bit deeper to find hidden gems and finagling secret screenings of "works-in-progress" before their debuts at other festivals.
Because I normally don't partake of the Sundance experience, it's an opportunity for me to see a slew of great films that have just played there, as I did last year, in a quiet, friendly, low-key place that's more about the film-going community rather than the industry that descends on Park City every year. However, more and more VIPs do descend on Columbia each year due to the festival's stellar reputation.
By taking a gander at the new program, this year's festival will surely not disappoint. What's particularly exciting is that filmmaker, Kim Longinotto, will be this year's True Vision Award recipient. Fresh from her triumphant win of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her latest nonfiction piece, Rough Aunties, Longinotto will be fêted for "creatively advancing the art of nonfiction filmmaking and building a body of work that reveals new truths about our world within each frame." Yes, she does, and has been doing for decades. I'm very excited to meet with her again. While she was finishing up Rough Aunties for its IDFA debut this past summer in London, I got a chance to sit with her for a wonderful and very personal chat. You can read more here about T/F's True Vision Award and its recipients from past years, and you can read my conversation with Longinotto here.
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