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TRUE/FALSE 2020 FORESIGHT

Like the True/False logo, the notion of the evil eye has always contained a duality—referring both to the malevolent glare and also the amulet that protects against it. Its use transcends cultures and dates at least as far back as the 6th century B.C. Plutarch posited that some eyes could literally emit deadly rays, and Virgil spoke of afflicted sheep (“What eye is it that has fascinated my tender lambs?”). Across the Persian Empire, weavers of kilim rugs often incorporated symbols (like those pictured to the left) to ward off the effects of these pernicious scowls. These days, while belief in their effectiveness may have declined, the talismans themselves continue to be popular tourist souvenirs. For the cover, we reproduce the most common style of nazar amulet, also referencing the idea of vision found at the heart of our 2020 theme.

WELCOME AS TRUE/FALSE ENTERS A NEW DECADE, our founders Paul and David have taken a back seat and we’re squinting our eyes a bit to see what the coming years will bring, forging new paths and revisiting well-worn ones. The Fest should mostly feel very familiar this year, though our mission to surprise and delight means that you may encounter some off-road shenanigans. Collectively, this year’s Core team represents close to five centuries of T/F experience (We checked our math. Twice.). We value the new ideas and pushback on “the way things have always been” from those who are brandnew as well as the institutional knowledge and skill of the old guard. Our vision of the future has never looked brighter. Though they say hindsight is 20/20, we’ve found Foresight to be a richer, deeper muse, speaking to our universal desire for precognition. Even the most earthbound rationalists among us will admit that there’s more to our experience than meets the eye. Another world is not only possible but is here now, if we can only attune our senses beyond the standard five. Documentary film, at its best, excites multiple senses. It also creates an odd paradox—making us believe we’re watching the present day, even when we know we’re really seeing the past. Great filmmakers, though, like the Ross Brothers, our True Vision honorees, explore memory and reality in sneaky, rebellious ways. Their new film, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, reveals truths about the families we create and the state of the nation amidst joyful inebriation. The subjects of our 2020 True Life Fund film, David France’s Welcome to Chechnya, find the urgency of the present tense, showing us unspeakable atrocities that continue to this day—and the uncommon heroism of those who instinctively put their own lives on the line to help. As is often the case, the activists in this film—David Isteev, “Grisha” and others—are clear-eyed idealists, envisioning and working toward creating a different, better future. Our ongoing, underlying truth is that we wouldn’t be where we are without the support of our community. Our gratitude is greater than words, so consider these four days of True/False our gift of thanks for your continued belief in the Fest. May we all have the foresight we need to hold on to what works—and reimagine the rest. For real, Camellia Cosgray

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CONTENTS 5 FILMS TRUE LIFE FUND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 TRUE VISION AWARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 FEATURE FILMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 SHORTS PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 SHORTS BEFORE FEATURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 NEITHER/NOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 61 MUSIC MUSICIANS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 CONCERTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 MUSIC VENUES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 83

ART & DESIGN FORESIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 BUMPERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 INSTALLATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

SCHEDULE GRID INSERT 99 SYNAPSES FIELD SESSIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 SO EXTRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 CTRL+ALT+SHIFT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 107 LEARN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 MENTORSHIP PROGRAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 PRISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 ROUGH CUT RETREAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 123 EVENTS EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 EVENT VENUES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 139 SUPPORT MISSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 TRUE LIFE FUND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 LEGACY FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 PAY THE ARTISTS!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 145 THANK YOU RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY: FEST CORE & CINEMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 CONTRIBUTORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 SPONSORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 163 HOW TO FEST BOX OFFICE FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 NAVIGATING T/F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 ACCESSIBILITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 ACCESSIBILITY MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 VENUE HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 SUSTAINABILITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 RESTAURANT GUIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 MAP KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 3

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FILMS TRUE/FALSE SPOTLIGHTS CINEMA that is constructed from reality. We believe that a collective reality exists, and to become sharper interpreters of its complexities, we need artists who approach the world with sensitivity, discipline, daring, and imagination. We believe that creating art from reality is an intrinsically fraught and self-reflexive act. We are drawn to artists who boldly approach this challenge. As curious viewers, we believe criticism is an act of love, and in order to grow, we must participate in challenging discourse. At True/False, we reflect on the aesthetic and ethical decisions artists make as they represent reality. We are honored to share the following films, created by artists from around the globe. Thank you for joining us. We look forward to the conversation. notes films that are fully subtitled notes films that are Mentorship Program selections notes projects that are PRISM Program selections 5

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THE TRUE LIFE FUND

2020 SELECTION: WELCOME TO CHECHNYA

MAXIM LAPUNOV, whose bravery is revealed in the new film Welcome to Chechnya, is the recipient of the 2020 True Life Fund. The fund, True/False’s annual philanthropic effort, is a tangible way to acknowledge the risks, sacrifices, and contributions of documentary subjects. In Welcome to Chechnya, subjects put their lives on the line to help us understand the terror sweeping across Chechnya, where the LGBT+ community is the target of a pogrom. In response to the killings, a group of Chechen activists have organized an underground network to escort LGBT+ citizens out of the region. This film brings us along for these harrowing journeys. It also tenderly captures the love that drives all of its subjects. The stakes of this film are unfathomably high. If certain images had escaped the hands of director David France, it could have had grave consequences for his subjects. To honor their extraordinary trust, France went to great lengths not only to protect the footage but also to find groundbreaking technology that would allow him to anonymize his subjects. Working with Dr. Thalia Wheatley, an expert in human empathy, France turned to face replacement technology, which disguises the film’s subjects without concealing their emotions. France and his collaborators have created a vital film that unveils an ongoing emergency. Now in its 13th year, the True Life Fund offers audiences an answer to the question, “How can I help?” Your donations will help Lapunov cover relocation and security expenses as he and his family pursue justice in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. To give, visit www.truelifefund.org, text any amount to 573.818.2151, or donate at True/False screenings. Please note: Welcome to Chechnya contains potentially triggering images of physical and sexual violence toward the LGBT+ community. 6

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WELCOME TO CHECHNYA

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2:30PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:15PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:45PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM

Dir. David France; 2020; 107 min. Q&A with director David France There are no gay men in Chechnya, if we are to trust the words of the man who leads the volatile Russian republic. “To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them.” Over the past three years, Ramzan Kadyrov’s government has rounded up, tortured, and killed the republic’s LGBT+ residents. In response, a group of Chechen citizens form an underground network that ushers LGBT+ community members out of the region. Director David France (How to Survive a Plague, T/F 2012) embeds with these activists to document their harrowing rescues, high risk efforts in which a simple mistake—contact with the wrong official, the misplacement of a SIM card— could end in disaster. France’s vital, present-tense film also captures the love that still thrives in Chechnya’s LGBT+ community. (CB) 7

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TRUE VISION AWARD 2020 RECIPIENTS: BILL AND TURNER ROSS Bill and Turner Ross were born in Sidney, Ohio. With collaborative, scrappy filmmaking at its finest, the Ross Brothers’ films are deeply rooted in the specifics of place while playing fast and loose with the rest. Their films may appear to be straightforward observational documentaries, but each production is in fact a series of highly orchestrated, intricately choreographed collaborative performances between the subjects, a team of filmmakers, and the space-time continuum. Full of twists and surprises, there’s a rebellious streak that runs through their films like a riddle best left unsolved as the Ross Brothers invite viewers on a cinematic joyride truer than fiction. Their debut film, 45365 (2009), is a paean to the Midwest and small-town Americana. Tchoupitoulas (2012), a story of three brothers’ luck and losses one night in New Orleans; and their brand -new feature, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020), one last hurrah for barflys, saints, and sinners in the city of mystery and second chances. In Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, we pick up, in many ways, where the revelry of Tchoupitoulas left off. The soundtrack of Buck Owens’ epic ballad of failure and blind ambition, “Big in Vegas,” rings in our ears like an alarm clock while patrons sober up and stumble out into the light. A last round for late-night romance and hard-won advice, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is a zonked-out midnight marvel that rounds out the Ross Brothers’ career in neon lights. Bill and Turner Ross will receive this year’s True Vision Award in honor of their achievements in and contribution to the field of nonfiction filmmaking. Their latest film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, will screen at the festival alongside a retrospective of their work. The award is given with support from Dr. Timothy McGarity of Restoration Eye Care. The award is designed by local metal artist Michael Marcum.

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BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 10PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7:15PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 9:30AM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

Dirs. Bill & Turner Ross; 2020; 98 min. Q&A with directors Bill & Turner Ross The Las Vegas skyline is littered with unfinished high-rises, ostentatious displays of wealth from unknown developers. In the shadows of the cranes, a beloved neighborhood dive bar is closing its doors. Shot on the final day of operation, coincidentally (or not) right after the 2016 election, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets watches with equal parts love, recognition, and amusement as a small but devoted clientele stops by for the final night. The festivities are lovely and low-key at first, but emotions heighten as the liquor keeps pouring. Soon weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dancing with the barflys, eavesdropping, and tagging along for delightful shenanigans. A tour de force of construction, this magical, atmospheric film operates simultaneously as a moving portrait of a bar family, a bittersweet state of the nation, and an ecstatic simulation of inebriation. (CB) 9

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45365

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 4:30PM / FORREST THEATER

Dirs. Bill & Turner Ross; 2009; 94 min. Q&A with directors Bill & Turner Ross It’s 69 degrees and sunny at the Shelby County Fair. Dazzling and earnest, this debut film by Bill and Turner Ross uses the sounds of public radio, marching bands, and police scanners to cleverly collapse time and space, taking us from the weekend weather to a live interview with the 4-H queen first runner-up. Here, in the heart of the Ohio valley, spotted horses prance in their stables, teenage boys race in junk derbies, and local politicians canvass door-to-door for their reelections. Filmed over the course of nine months, 45365's camera moves deftly between flirting, freak shows, and football, reminding us that the everyday is extraordinary and “it’s always fun to watch little kids run around with their hogs.” (JA)

04 ASWANG

A: FRIDAY MAR 6 / 9:15PM / GANNETT HALL // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 5:45PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUENOTE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30PM / GANNETT HALL

Dir. Alyx Ayn Arumpac; 2019; 85 min. Q&A with director Alyx Ayn Arumpac Blood stains the sidewalks as President Duterte undertakes what he calls the “neutralization of illegal drug personalities,” but what citizens of Manilla have come to know is nothing less than a killing spree. In her feature-length debut, director Alyx Arumpac sensitively approaches the trauma that has befallen her subjects: a journalist who fights the government’s lawlessness; a restrained coroner; a brave missionary’s brother who tries to comfort the bereaved families of the dead; and Jomari, who lives on the streets after his parents were jailed. Together, they make up Aswang—an umbrella term given to spirits, goblins, and ghosts, here entangled in a deadly and seemingly never-ending reign of violence. (AG) 11

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A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7:15PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:45AM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:30PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM

Dir. Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss; 2020; 109 min. Q&A with directorJesse Moss What will the United States look like in 30 years? Over a single summer week, an ambitious crop of teenage boys from across the state of Texas assembles in the state capital. Some plaster their bedrooms with portraits of Reagan; others look to Bernie as they imagine revolution. Strangers to one another, each is randomly assigned to one of two fictional political parties. Together, they must reach consensus on a platform and nominee for 2018 Texas Boys State governor. Boys State is a miracle of documentary production, with a perceptive camera crew that’s present as stars are born and campaigns come crashing down. This delightful, insightful, and rousing film watches as its charismatic subjects figure out if it’s possible to unite a divided house. (CB) Presented by Veterans United Home Loans

06 CATSKIN

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 10PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4:30PM/ GANNETT HALL // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:15PM / BIG RAGTAG // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5PM / THE GLOBE

Dir. Ina Luchsperger; 2019; 58 min Q&A with director Ina Luchsperger Shot in the German countryside, Catskin is a mysterious, alluring portrait of a teenage boy who lives a simple life with his father, grandmother, and their cats. As director Ina Luchsperger begins to film, bewildering details accumulate: first a Confederate flag appears on the family's garage, then the grandmother claims their cat, Puppi, is a distant relative of Anne Frank’s tomcat. In her slippery, mesmerizing debut, Luschperger refrains from characterizing the family, even as they present ever-more-disturbing images and express increasingly hostile opinions. While we are left searching for the origins of this behavior, it feels as though the family only wants to see how far they can take it. (CB) Preceded by “How to Disappear” (dirs. Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf, 21 min). NB: Short not subtitled. 13

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FILMS 07 CITY SO REAL

A: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10AM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7:30PM / FORREST THEATER // C: SUNDAY MAR 8 / 9:30AM / FORREST THEATER // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 1PM / THE THE PICTUREHOUSE

Dir. Steve James; 2020; A: 255 min. / B-D: 120 min. ea. Q&A with director Steve James (A&D only) Over four episodes, Steve James takes an unflinching look at the tumultuous political workings of Chicago. City So Real traverses a broad array of neighborhoods, parades, eateries, and living rooms. James positions the viewer in the midst of the trial of Jason Van Dyke, a police officer convicted for the murder of Laquan McDonald. He then takes us to the infamous halls of local government during a mayoral race that leads to an historic victory. City So Real is a testament to the hard-working blue-collar attitude of the beloved Windy City. (AG) This episodic piece will be presented in two ways. 07A is the complete work: episodes 1-4, and includes a 15-minute intermission. 07B & 07C are episodes 1&2. 07D is episodes 3&4. Q&As will follow screenings 07A & 07D only.

08 COLLECTIVE

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 4:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 9PM / THE GLOBE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 3:30PM / MISSOURI THEATRE

Dir. Alexander Nanau; 2019; 109 min. Q&A with director Alexander Nanau Fire spreads quickly through a Bucharest nightclub. Dozens die before they can escape, but inexplicably, many more perish in the days that follow. In Collective, director Alexander Nanau follows tenacious reporters as they carefully uncover why. As the revelations pile up, their reporting captures the attention of an increasingly livid public, who direct their anger at a hopelessly corrupt government. Nanauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool-headed, rigorous approach to observational filmmaking complements his journalist subjects, who resolutely strive for a collective understanding of reality in a society that has lost touch with the truth. Eventually and unexpectedly, his access trumps that of the reporters, and this involving procedural transforms into a jaw-dropping, up-close look at systemic rot. (CB) Presented by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy 15

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A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 5:30PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7PM / FORREST THEATER// C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 3:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Marnie Ellen Hertzler; 2020; 73 min. Q&A with director Marnie Ellen Hertzler As the world hurtles toward end times, young SoundCloud rappers descend on Crestone, Colorado, a tiny desert town that is central to a surprising number of spiritualities. Guided by a man who goes by the name of Sloppy, they form a modern commune within which they grow weed, play video games, and create music for the ether. Director Marnie Ellen Hertzler creates a dazzling group portrait that is both utterly contemporary and also post-apocalyptic. In this debut feature, Hertzler invents a playful new cinematic language at the intersection of Documentary and Vineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and delivers a key text about the Millennial generation and its warped relationship with reality. Has the internet destroyed us, and, if so, is there any hope for redemption? (CB)

CRIP CAMP

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7:15PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 10PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 11:45AM / THE GLOBE // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:45PM / MISSOURI THEATRE

Dirs. Jim LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham; 2019; 102 min. Q&A with directors Jim LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham

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DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11:15AM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7PM / MISSOURI THEATRE

Dir. Kirsten Johnson; 2020; 89 min. Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson In the face of losing her father, Dick, to dementia, Kirsten Johnson takes her dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death into her own hands. Through a series of hilarious, heart-wrenching fake fatal accidents, action stunts, and macabre special effects, Johnson and her father collaborate in a grand exercise of cinematic shock therapy in order to confront the end together. Blending fiction (Dick is dead) and nonfiction (death itself), this colorful, wildly inventive follow-up to Cameraperson (T/F 2016) plumbs the depths of disbelief and the heartache of grief by insisting on the now. A beautiful, deeply self-reflective film full of questions, anger, vulnerability, and laughter, Dick Johnson is Dead will change the way you think about mortality and bring you closer to the people you love. (JA) Presented by Burrell Behavioral Health

DOPE IS DEATH

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11:30AM / BIG RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:45PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Mia Donovan; 2020; 78 min. Q&A with director Mia Donovan In 1973, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America. This form of radical harm reduction was a revolutionary act toward the government programs that transfixed the lives of black and brown communities throughout the South Bronx. Dope is Death utilizes an abundant archive while giving us insight into how the acupuncture clinic rose to prominence and, despite funding challenges, still functions to this day. Some of those who benefited from the program became acupuncturists themselves. Dr. Mutuluâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy is cemented within this profound story of community healing and activism. (AG) 19

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DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10AM / FORREST THEATER // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 4PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM

Dir. Ursula Liang; 2020; 83 min. Q&A with director Ursula Liang Returning home after getting his hair braided for Thanksgiving, Akai Gurley, an innocent and unarmed black man, was shot and killed walking down a dark stairwell in the NYC Housing Authority Pink Houses of East New York. Fourteen steps above, police officer Peter Liang and his partner, Shaun Landau, were patrolling the building’s staircases when they heard a “quick sound.” Peter’s “accidental discharge” put into motion an emotionally charged legal battle, as two communities of color find themselves navigating fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law. Ursula Liang (no relation) swiftly cuts through the noise and media frenzy to find what’s missing from the story. (JA) Preceded by "See You Next Time" (dir. Crystal Kayiza, 6 min).

THE FACULTIES

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 5PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 3:45PM / PICTUREHOUSE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 9:30AM / GANNETT HALL

Dir. Eloísa Solaas; 2019; 77 min Q&A with director Eloísa Solaas A cinema professor nonchalantly lobs oral examination questions while the blood drains out of a student’s face and she stares quizzically past the camera. As each exam unfolds, students are tested in architecture, botany, physics, philosophy, and music, each system offering its own language, laws, and tidy logic to organize ephemera and existence. As she observes a new generation of thinkers and civil servants, Eloísa Solaas crafts a compelling argument about the role of public universities in society and how access to information can either replicate or destabilize institutional power. This film deeply interrogates the concept of mastering a subject or skill as students glide through concertos or call on their rote memory in order to survive this last formality. (JA) Preceded by “Partial Differntial Equation” (dir. Kevin Jerome Everson, 8 min). 21

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FAITH

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 9:45PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10:15PM / BIG RAGTAG // C: SUNDAY, MAR, 8 / 2:45PM / GANNETT HALL

Dir. Valentina Pedicini; 2019; 93 min At a rural Italian monastery, the Warriors of Light adhere to a curious blend of kung fu, Shaolin doctrine, and Catholicism. At the behest of their Master, the warriors engage in highly strenuous daily athletics. These routines put the disciples under intense psychological pressures—all with the impending threat of being banished from the community. After 11 years of dedicated documentation, shooting entirely in black- and-white, director Pendicini molds her film as an entrancing thriller. The aesthetic choices provide a stark visual reckoning for the followers who question their values of faith, freedom, and society while fully immersing the viewer in a world that’s both serene and unsettling. (AG)

FEELS GOOD MAN

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 1:30PM / FORREST THEATER // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 10:15PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:30PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

Dir. Arthur Jones; 2020; 95 min Q&A with director Arthur Jones In 2005, artist Matt Furie posted a cartoon strip to Myspace starring four stoner friends—Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe. Inspired by impish humor and boyhood mischief, Furie’s story about a little frog who likes to pee-pee with his pants down became wildly popular on new social media platforms such as 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter. As users adapted Matt’s image to fit their own playful or polemical ends, the meme began to mutate and Pepe the Frog is soon co-opted by an army of anonymous trolls. A rollicking horror flick about the zombie afterlife of images online and off, this film is a must-see for Walter Benjamin acolytes and anyone who lives on the internet or wants to understand those that do. (JA) 23

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THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4:45PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10:15PM / FORREST THEATER // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Ja'Tovia Gary; 2019; 42 min Q&A with Directors Rikkí Wright ("A Song About Love") & Christopher Harris ("Reckless Eyeballing") A stimulating experimental wanderlust from the gardens of Giverny, France, to the streets of Harlem, New York City. Ja’Tovia Gary frames herself as nature in motion, draped in a floral dress amidst the botanical territory of impressionist painter Claude Monet. The bodily safety and autonomy of black women is embedded within this multitextured interrogation of black femme performance. Gary employs rhythmic splicing, scratching, and animation; her on-camera persona shapeshifts from garden-dweller to investigative reporter, punctuated by a hypnotic and legendary performance by Nina Simone. The Giverny Document transcends pain and trauma by juxtaposing power and vulnerability. (AG) Preceded by “Reckless Eyeballing” (dir. Christopher Harris, 14 min), and "A Song About Love" (dir. Rikkí Wright, 14 min).

IWOW: I WALK ON WATER

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7:30PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 2:15PM / GANNETT HALL // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5:30PM / BIG RAGTAG

Dir. Khalik Allah; 2020; 200 min Q&A with director Khalik Allah Since 2011, filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah (Black Mother, T/F 2018) has attracted global attention for his radiant portraits of the denizens of 125th and Lexington in East Harlem. In IWOW, Allah returns to the intersection and centers his attention on longtime muse Frenchie, a 60-something homeless Haitian man. Over summer 2019, Allah and Frenchie flout societal boundaries as their material lives became increasingly intertwined. A radically transparent record of that time, IWOW also documents a romantic relationship that coincides with the shoot and finds Allah gathering advice from a number of confidants, including Fab 5 Freddy, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and his mother. Sometimes painful in its vulnerability, often funny in its candor, and always beautiful to behold, Allah’s stunning epic is a contemporary rethinking of the diary film. (CB) 25

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LOVEMOBIL

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 10:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11AM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 2PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss; 2019; 106 min Q&A with cinematographer Christoph Rohrscheidt Women from Eastern Europe and Africa find themselves sitting inside camper vans parked along a German country road. With moonlight illuminating them, men stop to solicit sexual favors in exchange for money. In the morning, Uschi, a hardened woman in her 60s, arrives and, in tense exchanges, negotiates her share of the income. Once a sex worker herself, Uschi now rents the camper to the immigrant women and enjoys a fraught symbiotic relationship with them. But tensions, already high, have escalated following the murder of another sex worker nearby. Lehrenkrauss and cinematographer Christoph Rohrscheidt spent two years drawing out the tragedies, fears, and grief ingrained in the lives of these women and along the way captured intimate scenes that offer insights into their personalities and the proclivities of their clientele. (AG)

20 A MACHINE TO LIVE IN

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 10:30PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 2:30PM / THE GLOBE

Dirs. Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke; 2020; 87 min Q&A with directors Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke In this wildly inventive hybrid documentary, the feature debut from experimental film and installation artists Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke, viewers are transported to the space-age city of BrasĂlia. A modernist architectural marvel, the city is a sparkling wasteland of machine dreams and aging monuments to a utopian future. Highlighting the sacred geometry of triangles and symmetry of lines, this sci-fi flick interrogates the semiotic structures that undergird the Martian outpost. With striking visuals and a thumping, electronic soundtrack, A Machine to Live In is a transcendent, transcendental voyage through Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cosmic capital. (JA) 27

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MAŁNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 9:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30AM/ GANNETT HALL // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 5:30PM / BIG RAGTAG // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:30PM / THE GLOBE

Dir. Sky Hopinka; 2020; 81 min Q&A with director Sky Hopinka A stunning poetic excursion through the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Our protagonists and guides are Jordan Mercier and Sweetwater Sahme, who share their own personal rituals and relationship with the spirit world, traditions, and circularity around the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people. The language of this contemplative film fluctuates from English to the indigenous language of Chinuk Wawa. Małni is also sonically adventurous, with enticing scenes that present both an epic wander of the great northern terrain and an inward dive into the meanings of mortality. Sky Hopinka entwines personal paths and bodies of water as he constructs multilayered metaphors of homeland, landscape, and myth in an indigenous world. (AG) Preceded by “Distancing” (dir. Miko Revereza, 10 min).

MAYOR

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 8PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2:30PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30AM / MISSOURI THEATRE // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5:30PM / GANNETT HALL

Dir. David Osit; 2020; 87 min Q&A with director David Osit Musa Hadid is the wry, level-headed mayor of Ramallah, a historically Christian city that has become the de facto capital of Palestine. Set during the Christmas season, Mayor observes Hadid, e-cig in hand, as he traverses Ramallah to meet with constituents and manage the quotidian predicaments facing the city, all the while working toward a day when his nation will be truly free. Director David Osit’s patient camera reveals moments of absurd humor, lyricism, and even white-knuckle tension, all while allowing the less newsworthy aspects of oppression to be felt in indelible, organic ways. (CB)

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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11AM / MISSOURI THEATRE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:45PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Catarina Vasconcelos; 2020, 101 min Skype Q&A with Catarina Vasconcelos A family preserves its memories in this epistolary love story. While Henrique is away at sea, his lifelong love, Beatriz, is left at home learning about plants and taking care of their six children. The couple keeps in touch through letters and journal entries recited throughout the film. “Let me die, standing up like the trees,” is whispered from a past note in a red-lit corridor. Beatriz and Henrique’s oldest son, Jacinto, wants to be a bird. We observe the growth, love, and despair of Beatriz, Henrique, and their family via director Catarina Vasconcelos’ beautiful reimagination of this personal and intimate tale, sonically activated by the blossoming of flowers. (AG)

THE MOLE AGENT

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7:15PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30AM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 9:30AM / MISSOURI THEATRE

Dir. Maite Alberdi; 2020; 90 min Q&A with producer Marcela Santibáñez A woman hires a private detective to investigate rumors of elder neglect in her mother’s nursing home. The detective, in turn, enlists Sergio, a kindhearted recent widower, to infiltrate the facility and gather evidence. He learns how to operate spy cameras and moves into the home, where he quickly discovers he is one of only three men in this community ... and by far the most appealing bachelor. Director Maite Alberdi (Tea Time, T/F 2015) is there as well—she has convinced the nursing home to let her follow the new resident as he acclimates to his surroundings—as Sergio forges friendships, navigates the emotions of his suitors, and attempts to gain the trust of the client’s mother. This documentary spy thriller blossoms into a warmhearted consideration of how we treat one another. (CB) 31

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MUCHO MUCHO AMOR

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:45PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 3:30PM / MISSOURI THEATRE

Dirs. Cristina Costantini & Kareem Tabsch; 2020; 96 min Q&A with director Cristina Costantini For 15 years, Univision’s news show Primer Impacto closed its report not with the weekend weather or local boy makes good but with Walter Mercado, a fabulous, gender-fluid Puerto Rican astrologer who read the stars and told the future to more than 120 million viewers across the Caribbean, United States, and Mexico every day. As he read each sign’s horoscope, he peered into their souls and gave them hope. A classically trained Flamenco dancer, medicinal healer, and devout religious syncretist, Walter’s sartorial statements were inspired by opulent Spanish divas and the occult. A pioneering queer superhero in a cape, Walter brought joy, positivity, and magic to everything he did. So why did he mysteriously disappear? (JA)

NOFINOFY

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 6:45PM / THE GLOBE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 2:45PM / BIG RAGTAG // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 3PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

Dir. Michaël Andrianaly; 2020; 73 min Q&A with director Michaël Andrianaly Romeo finds great satisfaction in cutting hair. “To touch someone's head is delicate. It’s an honor." In the opening moments of Nofinofy, city officials abruptly evict Romeo from his downtown location, forcing the Malagasy barber to relocate to a small shed in a different neighborhood. The film observes this young father in the aftermath as he finds himself relying on a small but loyal clientele comprising family and friends. Each intimately photographed appointment begets vulnerable conversation as we learn about the frustrations facing the country and about Romeo himself. In this sublime and tactile portrait, director Michaël Andrianaly registers a collective weariness while also vividly documenting the things that, for better or worse, sustain us through the hopelessness: song, camaraderie, alcohol, and, most of all, human touch. (CB) 33

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PIER KIDS

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 10PM / FORREST THEATER // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 1:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE

Dir. Elegance Bratton; 2019; 84 min Q&A with director Elegance Bratton Elegance Bratton’s vérité-styled directorial debut is a gritty tale of resilience amplified by an ensemble of personalities who make up the underground community along the piers at the end of Christopher Street. At the Piers, these personalities have found their chosen family. Krystal LaBeija, a transgender woman, returns to her Missouri home seeking the acceptance of her mother, who doesn't fully embrace Krystal’s identity. Casper and Desean go from being homeless to housed while carving out their place in the world. Bratton’s own life as a pier kid means that the camera is never intrusive or objectifying as it records the passions of these youths. Pier Kids sheds light on the unjust harassment and police proflling of queer kids as they navigate the precarities of a complicated and vibrant lifestyle. (AG)

RIDGE

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 9:15PM / FORREST THEATER // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 2:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 8PM / GANNETT HALL

Dir. John Skoog; 2019; 70 min Q&A with director John Skoog This ravishingly beautiful, exquisitely strange film opens with the story of two cows who have run away from their owners and refuse to rejoin the pack. “They keep growing wilder.” Director John Skoog’s debut then drops us into his hometown, a rural Swedish community called Kvidinge. Working with local residents, Skoog stages a series of enchanting vignettes that draw from local lore, his camera drifting through the magical world they co-create. Mystery permeates the frame, the sense that we are experiencing a language that’s only truly understood by the inhabitants of this place. This is a film to sink into, knowing there’s a gasp around every bend. (CB) 35

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SEVEN YEARS IN MAY

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4PM / THE GLOBE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:45PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

Dir. Affonso Uchôa; 2019; 42 min Q&A with director Affonso Uchôa This artful, performative construction of fiction and nonfiction provokes the viewer in mysterious, disorienting, and deeply powerful ways. We meet Rafael dos Santos Rocha as a shadow moving through the dimly lit streets of an unnamed Brazilian city. Recounting the startling events that changed his life seven years earlier, the film considers how we move past inflicted pain even when forced to relive it. Throughout, director Uchôa finds revelatory moments, such as Rafael confiding in a stranger next to a blazing campfire. As the film takes a performative shift in the closing minutes, Rafael finds his voice joining a collective chorus and a reckoning with the brutal police oppression that haunts him. (AG) Preceded by “Up at Night” (dir. Nelson Makengo, 21 min).

30 SO LATE SO SOON

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7:30PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4PM / FORREST THEATER // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 8PM / BIG RAGTAG // D: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:30PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

Dir. Daniel Hymanson; 2020; 70 min Q&A with director Daniel Hymanson Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden are a half-century into their marriage, time spent creating distinct yet congruous bodies of work. Jackie makes art of everything around her. Central to her practice is a recognition of the fragility of materials. That conceptual interest has turned into daily reality, as both her body and one of her most ambitious art projects, her canary-yellow Victorian house, start to fall apart. Don’s work reveals a mind resigned to death. He has always been interested in the rules of nature, and now he finds himself facing inevitable health scares. So Late So Soon is a sensitively constructed, playful character study that honors Jackie and Don’s art, and even becomes a part of it, while also locating in it glimmers of their essence. (CB) 37

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SOME KIND OF HEAVEN

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 4:30PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 2:45PM / FORREST THEATER

Dir. Lance Oppenheim; 2020; 81 min Q&A with director Lance Oppenheim A Floridian garden of earthly delights and its discontents, Some Kind of Heaven follows retirees newly arrived at the fountain of youth. At The Villages, a married couple, a widow, and a bachelor find Eden and a second bite at the apple. An area handyman looks for work while a woman toys with love after loss. From synchronized swimming to pickleball, the good life is waiting, as well as a discounted funeral package now at a new, lower price. In a transcendent debut film that puts a twist on the “long-term” relationship, Oppenheim digs below the perfect facade to explore each person’s oscillation between integrity and despair, reinvention and recklessness, freedom and familiarity. A film that reminds us that we all leave this Earth the way we came. (JA) Presented by Fresh Ideas

SUNLESS SHADOWS

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11AM / GANNETT HALL // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 10AM / BIG RAGTAG // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 9:30AM / JESSE AUDITORIUM

Dir. Mehrdad Oskouei; 2019; 74 min Skype Q&A with Director Mehrdad Oskouei Mehrdad Oskouei, director of Starless Dreams (T/F 2016) and former True Vision honoree, continues his exploration of imprisoned young people, centering on a group of women in a detention center in Iran. The crime these women have committed is murder, the result of being victims of abuse by their fathers, husbands, and brothers. Oskouei captures the incarcerated women exerting feelings of liberation within confinement. Collectively, the detained women learn English, play games, share meals, and look after an infant. In controlled video testimonies, they address their crimes and guilt to their accomplices and victims. For a moment, the immured young women are reconnected with their mothers also in captivity, one scene among many that immerse us in their oceans of grief. (AG) 39

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Dir. IGG Nabwana; 2020; 61 min Skype Q&A with director IGG Nabwana Working out of his Wakaliga, Kampala, home, IGG Nabwana directs ingenious action films that affectionately riff on the genre’s conventions. His films showcase narration from VJ Emmie, who offers wry running commentary— hyping the director, cheering on the heroes, mocking the villains, and, most exhilarating of all, speaking directly to the viewer, making us feel as if we’re accessories to the production. IGG Nabwana, VJ Emmie, and the Wakaliwood family have created a special presentation for the True/False audience. You won’t want to miss this one-time-only experience. (CB)

TALKING ABOUT TREES

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 9:30PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE

Dir. Suhaib Gasmelbari; 2019; 93 min Skype Q&A to follow In Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, movie theaters have been long-abandoned without usable seating. The Sudanese Film Group consisting of Ibrahim Shaddad, Suliman Ibrahim, Eltayeb Mahdi, and Manar Al-Hilo—want to encourage filmmaking and resurrect cinema going. The four retired, award-winning filmmakers take a prominent stance against the decade old censorship on cinema in this humorous and admirable film. While attempting to bring the Revolution Cinema back to life, the group faces the adversity of bureaucracy. Director Suhaib Gasmelbari structures this documentary full of magical moments, one in particular where the directing troupe recreates a classic Gloria Swanson movie scene during a blackout. Talking About Trees is a film with generosity of spirit and the urgency of cinephilia. (AG) 41

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TCHOUPITOULAS

A: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 5PM / WILLY WILSON@ RAGTAG // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

Dir. Bill & Turner Ross; 2012; 82 min Q&A with directors Bill & Turner Ross If True Vision recipients Bill and Turner Ross’ latest film, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, is a bleary-eyed celebration of late-night revelry, then it’s worth considering their sophomore feature, Tchoupitoulas, as its companion: a glimpse at the same intoxicating world of jukebox jams, colorful characters, and heated conversation, but this time seen through the wide-eyed wonderment of childhood. Accompanied by their dog, Buttercup, three young brothers escape from home, cross the ferry, and head out on a strange and ecstatic journey through the New Orleans night. They sneak into spaces in which they technically don’t belong, meet eccentric street characters, and try to make it back before the final ferry departs for the evening. With nine months of footage collapsed so as to represent one night, Tchoupitoulas is early evidence of the Ross Brothers’ magic tricks. (CB)

THAT CLOUD NEVER LEFT

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4:15PM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 2:45PM / THE GLOBE // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 3PM / BIG RAGTAG

Dir. Yashaswini Raghunandan; 2019; 66 min Q&A with Director Yashaswini Raghunandan In Daspara, a village 200 kilometers outside of Calcutta, hundreds of toys are produced every day: rattles, whistles, windmills, all made by hand. The raw materials used are old strips of film, detritus from the archives of Bollywood. What matters isn’t so much the pictures that are used by the workers, but rather the material and the clicking sound that the strips of film make. As the villagers follow this routine with uninterrupted monotony, a few narratives leak out from the shredded analogues of film and infuse the place with phantasmagoria. Director Yashaswini Raghunandan repurposes these colored reels to create dreamlike sequences. (AG) 43

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THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 11:15AM / FORREST THEATER // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30AM / WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG // C: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:30PM / FORREST THEATER

Dir. Jessica Sarah Rinland; 2019; 65 min Q&A with subject Joel Seidner Kleimberg Ripe fruit gleams on the forest floor while howler monkeys are gently reintroduced to the wild and a boy dreams of growing up into a tree. An exquisite meditation on materiality and excavation, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s directorial debut follows the movements of zoologists, museum conservators, and scientists as they collaboratively restore an ancient elephant tusk. Beauty, process, and technical craftsmanship are on full display as clay and plaster are transformed into a replica fossil. Is the restored artifact preserved or born again? Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another offers striking compositions of plants, animals, and Lilliputian patterns that will delight film nerds and nature lovers alike. (JA) Preceded by “Specialized Technique” (dir. Onyeka Igwe, 7 min).

TIME

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // B: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 4:45PM / SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:15PM / FORREST THEATER // D: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 4PM / JESSE AUDITORIUM

Dir. Garrett Bradley; 2020; 85 min Q&A with producers Lauren Domino & Kellen Quinn We talk about time like we talk about movement, tumbling forward, pregnant with possibility. In prison, the world races on without you, with your family and loved ones straddling parallel dimensions of space and time. Sibil “Fox” Rich’s family is split in two as her husband, Rob, serves the mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time offense committed in his 20s, and their sons grow into men. Garrett Bradley’s Time is a gorgeous decadeslong portrait of Fox Rich—a tireless advocate, entrepreneur, and prison abolitionist—and a testament to the monumental strength of all women who love and support someone behind bars. (JA) Preceded by “Hampton” (dirs. Kevin Jermone Everson & Claudrena Harold, 8 min). 45

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Dir. Inês Gil; 2019; 76 min Q&A with director Inês Gil In the wake of recession, Unskinned enters a storied Portuguese factory and documents its employees as they deftly operate the many machines involved in leather tanning. At first, Inês Gil's film resembles a process documentary, capturing the various steps in transfixing detail. But this sensorial splendor is deceptive. As the employees reflect on their experiences in the tannery, the superficial beauty of their labor fades and the physical and mental hazards of the job come into focus. Throughout their conversations, the subjects continually mention a former co-worker named Patrícia, whose mysterious absence from the plant continues to vex veteran employees. She is one of only three women workers, and the implications of her departure loom large, especially for Carla and Lúcia, on whom Gil centers as her film moves out of the plant and into the home. (CB)

40 THE VIEWING BOOTH

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2PM / MISSOURI THEATRE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 9:30AM / THE GLOBE // C: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 5:15PM / FORREST THEATER

Dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz; 2019; 70 min Q&A with director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz A student’s face is bathed in blue light as she sits alone, scanning YouTube. She is instructed by a researcher to watch a series of carefully curated videos designed to evoke a political or emotional response about international human rights issues, but the images take on new meaning under the scrutiny of a different perspective. As the researcher attempts to test belief, fact, and fiction, this film reminds us that anything is true from the right angle. A psychological thriller directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz—whose previous films, The Law in These Parts (2011) and The Inner Tour (2001), each concern the Israeli occupation of Palestine—The Viewing Booth explores the production, consumption, and proliferation of media in polarized times. (JA) 47

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SHORTS PROGRAMS Each screening of a shorts program at Gannett Hall is followed by a Q(uench) & A(nswer), a convivial gathering in The Palmer Room that replaces our traditional post-screening Q&A (see page 129).

SHORTS: BLANC

A: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 12:15PM / GANNETT HALL (WITH Q(UENCH) & A(NSWERS)) // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:15PM / GANNETT HALL

In person: director Everlane Moraes (“Aurora”) and director Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich (“Spit on the Broom”) Five short films float between dreams and distant island shores. In the comically dry and acidic stop-motion animation “Jesa” (dir. Kyungwon Song, 6 min.), the filmmaker prepares a traditional Korean feast for her ancestors while poking fun at traditions. In “The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay” (dir. Yen-Chao Lin, 11 min.), we embark on a journey to eastern Taiwan, where religions and colonial relics shape the landscape. Across oceans, the tropical “Dadli” (dir. Shabier Kirchner, 15min.) brings citric acid and warm, luxuriant color to the island of Antigua. “Spit on the Broom” (dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 11 min.), brings a new twist to the Southern Gothic portrait and explores a secret society of black women. Three Cuban women’s blazing stares in “Aurora” (dir. Everlane Moraes, 16 min.) give this program a long, lingering finish. (JA)

SHORTS: BOCK

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 7PM / GANNETT HALL (WITH Q(UENCH) & A(NSWERS)) // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:45PM / FORREST THEATER

In person: director Basir Mahmood (“Good Ended Happily”) Artists from all around the world challenge power. “Shortcuts” (dir. Daniela Delgado Viteri, 18 min.) traverses Ecuador and Peru, introducing us to enterprising citizens who take advantage of tourists' colonialist attitudes. In the eerie stunner "Good Ended Happily" (dir. Basir Mahmood, 13 min.), the director commissions a Lollywood film crew to reconstruct the raid on Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound as his camera floats through the terror. "What Remains" (dir. belit sağ, 7 min.) reflects on the roles images play in Kurdish mourning. A son picks up a crayon while waiting to see his incarcerated father in the delicately constructed "San Vittore" (dir. Yuri Ancarani, 12 min.). We end in Kinshasa, where homemade battery packs and snaking power cables connect citizens as they resist darkness in "Up At Night" (dir. Nelson Makengo, 21 min.). (CB) 49

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SHORTS: ROUGE

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 2PM / GANNETT HALL (WITH Q(UENCH) & A(NSWER)) // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 7:15PM / THE PICTUREHOUSE

In person: director Alison O’Daniel (“The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape”) This vibrant four-film suite heightens the senses and takes the viewer on a journey of healing. Full of light, grace and color, a band leader loses his senses in “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (dirs. Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri, 12 min.). An abandoned art deco building is restored to its former glory in the spectacular Secret Screening Short 1 (24 min.). Amid the city lights, horns blare and sound softly through thick Los Angeles air in “The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape” (dir. Alison O’Daniel, 18 min.). Pure impulse sends a young man on a long, strange road trip across Portugal to find a cure for his broken heart in the delightful “Lost Three Make One Found” (dir. Atsushi Kuwayama, 27 min.). (AG)

44 SHORTS: RYE

A: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 7PM / GANNETT HALL (WITH Q(UENCH) & A(NSWERS)) // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 3PM / FORREST THEATER

In person: director Carmine Grimaldi (“when two or three”) and director Mitch McCabe (“Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1)”) A wry, wily, winding trip across America on the cross-talk express. In the Vietnam War-era “Love It/Leave It” (dir. Tom Palazzolo, 15 min.), viewers feast their eyes on a glittering parade of nudity and riot gear. On the Oglala Lakota reservation of Pine Ridge, “To The North (Part 2)” (dir. Kelman Duran, 23 min.) offers a retelling of the First Nations and AIM Activist Anna Mae Aquash’s murder and the secrets still kept in the silent hills of South Dakota. Scanning the radio, “Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1)” (dir. Mitch McCabe, 15 min.) in two decades of archival footage are mined for secret messages in this hybrid road trip to hell. Alone in a deserted Arizona town, a pastor preaches about end times to his wife and only congregant in “when two or three” (dir. Carmine Grimaldi, 20 min.). (JA) 51

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SHORTS BEFORE FEATURES DISTANCING Dir. Miko Revereza; 2020; 10 min The director of No Data Plan (T/F 2019) packs his .MOVs and says goodbye to the United States. (Plays with Małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore)

HAMPTON Dirs: Kevin Jermone Everson & Claudrena Harold; 2019; 8 min. Black Voices, a gospel choir from the University of Virginia, journey through song on the way home from a concert in Hampton Roads. (Plays with Time)

HOW TO DISAPPEAR Dirs. Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf; 2020; 21 min. Is it possible to desert a war game? (Plays with Catskin)

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson; 2020; 8 min A mathematician commands the screen in this entrancing, durational study of chalk and code. (Plays with The Faculties)

RECKLESS EYEBALLING Dir. Christopher Harris; 2004; 14 min. Furtive and syncopated, a Jim Crow-era crime is reexamined under new light. (Plays with Giverny Document (Single Channel))

SEE YOU NEXT TIME Dir. Crystal Kayiza; 2020; 6 min A Chinese nail artist and her African American client, a regular, share a moment of relaxation and beauty in a Brooklyn salon. (Plays with Down A Dark Stairwell)

A SONG ABOUT LOVE Dir. Rikkí Wright; 2019; 14 min Suffering, pain, and pleasure are richly layered as a chorus of black women’s voices reaches divine heights. (Plays with Giverny Document (Single Channel))

SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE Dir. Onyeka Igwe; 2019; 7 min An effort to recuperate black dance from studied spectacle to livingness. (Plays with Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another)

THIS IS AN ADDRESS Dir. Sasha Wortzel; 2019; 17 min Stonewall veterans and queer activists claim residency along the Christopher Street piers while cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline. (Plays with Pier Kids)

UP AT NIGHT Dir. Nelson Makengo; 2019; 21 min Homemade battery packs and snaking power cables connect citizens of Kinshasa resisting darkness. (Plays with Seven Years in May) 53

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NEITHER/NOR 2020 SELECTION: MISSOURI HOMECOMING

In its Neither/Nor program, True/False celebrates groundbreaking nonfiction cinema from the past. For its seventh edition, Neither/Nor spotlights filmmakers who were born and raised in our very own state of Missouri. Artists featured include Lisa Steele (Kansas City), Christopher Harris (St. Louis), Mike Henderson (Marshall), and Tom Palazzolo (St. Louis). The series opens with a program of films from Steele, a Toronto-based video art pioneer. Starting in the 1970s, Steele spent more than a decade working at Interval House, a women’s and children’s shelter. Drawing from this experience, Steele created composite characters for a series of films that explore how women navigate government systems. At 6pm on Wednesday, March 4, we'll be screening two works from this series, "Taking Tongues" (1982) and The Gloria Tapes (1980), as well as an earlier film called "A Very Personal Story" (1974). This marks the first time Steele's work has been exhibited in Missouri. Prior to the screening, Steele will join us in person for a 5:15pm reception, presented by the Missouri Film Office. Tickets for this free event will be available starting at noon at the Ragtag Cinema box office. The Gloria Tapes program will screen a second time on Sunday evening. Palazzolo is a Chicago-based artist who creates short films about American rituals—wedding showers, the lottery, beauty contests, picnics. His films find wry humor in their pageantry while also looking at their participants with warmth and tenderness. In his masterful debut still/here (2000), Harris returns home to north St. Louis and creates his own cinematic language to look at its vacant spaces. Harris will be joining the festival in person Friday morning for a 16mm screening of the film. In a separate program, the festival will be featuring Harris’ “Reckless Eyeballing” (2004). Henderson, who hails from Marshall and lives in San Francisco, is an artist, painter, blues musician, and experimental filmmaker. Some of his films turn household appliances into mesmerizing abstractions, while others, such as the slave trade reenactment “Down Hear,” find radical ways to explore history. The festival will be exhibiting a 16mm program of his work. All Neither/Nor screenings are free and open to the public. To read about past Neither/Nor programs, visit truefalse.org/neither-nor. 56

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FILMS OF MIKE HENDERSON (SHORTS)

A: FRIDAY, MAR 6 / 1:30PM / THE GLOBE // B: SATURDAY, MAR 7 / 5PM / THE GLOBE

Director Mike Henderson; 75 min. Skype Q&A with Director Mike Henderson Marshall, Missouri, native Mike Henderson creates abstractions out of household appliances and radical explorations of history in his mesmerizing short films. In “Money” (2 min.), a pianist paces around the room and reflects on the wealth he’s accumulated. In “Just Another Notion” (3 min.), as the guitar screeches, the image comes into focus. “Down Hear” (12 min.) finds Henderson and his brother Raymond recreating the slave trade in their kitchen. In “The Rocking Chair Film” (23 min.), Henderson leaves the house, as his experiment intersects with another film crew. Lights whir around the frame in “Ducks are no Dinners” (3 min.), an approach Henderson continues to experiment with in “When & Where” (3 min.). A desperate man disrupts the frame in “Pitchfork and the Devil” (15 min.) “Dufus (aka Art)” (6 min.) finds Henderson cycling through stereotypes. The program closes with “The Shape of Things” (8 min.), which merges performance and abstraction. 16mm prints preserved by the Academy Film Archive 55

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FILMS OF TOM PALAZZOLO (SHORTS)

A: THURSDAY, MAR 5 / 7:15PM / FORREST THEATER // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 5:15PM / FORREST THEATER

Director Tom Palazzolo; 87 miner Skype Q&A with Director Tom Palazzolo St. Louis native Tom Palazzolo’s beautiful shorts document American rituals. He frequently locates humor in the pageantry, but the criticism is counterbalanced by the warm and tender way he looks at the people involved. “Labor Day East Chicago” (20 min.) finds young women fumbling over pageant questions as they vie for the title of Miss East Side 1978. “Ricky and Rocky” (15 min.) takes us to a backyard wedding shower, where the Italian/Polish couple open gifts and thank their colorful relatives. Set at a picnic for senior citizens, “Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)” (20 min.) is a surreal dark comedy. The program closes with the Vietnam era masterpiece “Love It/Leave It” (15 min.), a blistering montage of Americana set to the patriotic, pro-war sentiment.

THE GLORIA TAPES

A: WEDNESDAY, MAR 4 / 6PM / BIG RAGTAG // B: SUNDAY, MAR 8 / 12:30PM / BIG RAGTAG

Director Lisa Steele; 85 min. Q&A with director Lisa Steele Lisa Steele is a Kansas City native and video art pioneer. This intro to her extraordinary career opens with an early work, “A Very Personal Story” (20 min.), in which she recounts a startling incident from her teenage years. When Steele was in her early 20s, she and other draft resisters relocated to Toronto. Starting in 1974, Steele spent more than a decade working at Interval House, a women’s and children’s shelter. Drawing from her experiences at the shelter, she created composite characters for a series of films that explore their relationship with government systems. “Talking Tongues” (10 min.) finds Steele delivering a monologue as Beatrice Small, a woman who was abused by her husband. In “The Gloria Tapes” (55 min.) Steele draws from soap opera convention, as she creates a penetrating look at a woman navigating the welfare system. Tickets for the Wednesday pre-Fest screening will be available at the Ragtag Cinema Box Office on March 4 at 12pm. 57

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Director Christopher Harris; 60 min. Q&A with director Christopher Harris In his masterful debut, Iowa City-based filmmaker Christopher Harris returns home to north St. Louis, which is predominantly populated by black working class residents, and creates his own cinematic language to look at its abandoned cinemas, empty lots, and fading signs. Shooting in 16mm, Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intricately designed, unsettling film draws from audio archives as it finds ways to explore the concept of absence. We will be presenting a 16mm print, courtesy of Harris.

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MUSICIANS ABSTRACT BLACK Through his deconstruction and recontextualizing of Black musical motifs, this Nashville multi-instrumentalist lives up to his moniker with strident power.

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recently signed to Saddle Creek, plays driving '90s garage rock with a dark and haunting folk slant.

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MUSIC BLACK BEAR COMBO It’s hard to resist the urge to celebrate when Black Bear Combo brings its Balkan street-band energy to the parade in a glorious uproar of charged horns and a beating rhythmic footprint. BRENT PENNY Chicago-based singer-songwriter Brent Penny crafts '80s-inspired ethereal electro-pop gems with lyrics of love lost imagined through a lens both retro and futuristic. CARA LOUISE A compelling singer-songwriter with a penchant for captivating crowds, St. Louis-based Cara Louise combines classic country and folk rock to create a modern, alternative country style with an indie rock sheen. CHRIS COHEN This L.A.-based multi-hyphenate spent most of the Aughts honing his craft amongst the company of indie’s elite (e.g., Deerhoof, Ariel Pink) before stepping out on his own to release an unparalleled brand of intimate and intricate psychedelia. THE COSMIC RIDERS The Cosmic Riders are a local alt-country

outfit laced with psychedelic sonics powered by the steady vocal stylings of Tyle Toomsen, creating music that might be considered regressive by modern “country” standards.

COWGIRL JORDY These Columbia locals fashion atmospheres of hazy leisure and quaint storytelling through their distinctive sound that thoughtfully toes the line between recklessness and restraint. DÂM-FUNK The undisputed face of modern funk, L.A.-based Dâm-Funk effortlessly weaves synthesized chords and iconic machine drums to create timeless grooves sure to set all who listen into a perpetual head-nod.

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FUMES Fumes is the solo project of local legend Lou Nevins, who offers a haunting sound that might take you down a winding Southern Gothic back road or put you in the shoes of someone who has experienced true love and real loss. HOT MISSOURY Ozark anti-folk outfit Hot Missoury brings seediness, authenticy, and levity to its performance, which borders on revelry. It is at times jaunty, occasionally somber, and always distinctly Missourian.

HOURGLASS The freshest DJ in Atlanta, Hourglass’ style ranges from future beats and house to dancehall, afrobeats, Latin, hip-hop, Top 40, and everything in between. JAMES TILLMAN A lightning strike into the quiet storm of tradition, James Tillman augments an unforgettable vocal ability with an effusive pen and timelessly slick production. We’re surely witness to a star’s ascent in this D.C. resident. JAY WOOD Bringing a unique perspective to hip-hop by bridging the gap between artsy and trap, Chicago-based rap artist Jay Wood speaks lyrics with a level of vulnerability and honesty seldom heard in today’s scene.

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MUSIC KAREN MEAT This Des Moines pop-rock band yearns harder than a heart-torn teenager and pulses with youthful rebellion. Crooning melodies, bright guitar solos, and '60s-girl-pop sensibilities make for a delightful, defiant wonder. LITTLE MAZARN This Austin-based duo brings modernity to a high lonesome Appalachian sound. Minimal, expansive, and ethereal, Little Mazarn offers a stunning juxtaposition between traditionalism and contemporary sound. LOOSE LOOSE A project that simultaneously appreciates and rejects its genre tags, local fave Loose Loose delves deep into the worlds of jazz, neo-soul, and hip-hop, only to expand into a unique musical setting of its own. MADDIE RAZOOK Crystalline ballads and synth-pop musings invite listeners to examine their relationship with beauty, love, and the tension in between. Oklahoma City-based Maddie Razookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs approach unassumingly and deliver with tender force. MCKINLEY DIXON Richmond-based rapper McKinley Dixon brings a '90s-esque fusion of hip-hop and jazz back to center stage. Creating space for storytelling and highlighting sociopolitical realities, Dixon ensures that the terrain is richer the deeper you delve. MESONJIXX Blending elements of R&B and jazz, this Nebraska-born

project highlights songstress Mary Lawsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploration of soulful tradition with a robust band.

MONZIE LEO Guitar strumming and soulful humming are just a couple

of the homegrown and heartfelt sounds this Kansas-bred, Washington-based singer-songwriter packs in his rustic tunes.

NICHOLAS NAIOTI A prolific songwriter hailing from Fairfield, Iowa, Nicholas Naioti captures the mystery of the plains in electronic melodies packed with nostalgia and tinged with longing.

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SALTBREAKER Ambient trio Saltbreaker invites you to a meditation

of the natural world reflective of its Michigan home. Seamlessly weaving elements of shoegaze and classical, this Midwestern outfit brings a focus to its meditation.

SQUARE PEG ROUND HOLE This Philly-based percussion-driven electronic post-rock trio swells seamlessly from the pitter-pat of a mouse parade to the cacophony of a buffalo stampede. SUNNY WAR L.A.-based Sunny War uses a clawhammer style of acoustic guitar playing to fill the space underneath her somber vocals. Both melancholic and beautiful, her songs capture dark moments and spirited ones alike. THE SWEATERS Already T/F veterans but still working their way through high school and middle school, The Sweaters arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to let you leave without an earworm or two of indie-power-pop goodness. THANYA IYER As you listen to this Montreal trio, you'll quickly lose track

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MUSIC TINY DANIEL We found Tiny Daniel moonwalking on a cloud and singing songs to the stars and immediately began building a ladder tall enough to fetch him down to play for us at T/F 2020. TONINA St. Louisian Tonina expertly navigates her way through shifting

musical terrain guided by her beckoning vocals and powered by her pulsing standup bass.

TRISTAĂ&#x2018;O Under the combined influence of jazz legends, hip-hop maestros, and contemporary beatmakers, this St. Louis three-piece provides a contemplative yet engaging soundtrack to the ebb and flow of the Fest. TWO MEN BUYING DRUGS Generally law-abiding citizens, this coastal duo triumphantly returns to the Midwest, equipped with improvised rock jams bent on leaving an audience shocked and awed. XAVIER BLK Xavier BLK uses his eclectic New York and Carribean roots to fire up dance floors. A co-founder of the famed Atlanta-based WERC Crew, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developed a distinct sound that pairs familiar 808 bounce with uptempo bass, tribal beats, and R&B melodies.

YASMIN WILLIAMS Virginia-based Yasmin Williams has supplied a youthful tinge to the practice of fingerstyle guitar, merging her virtuosic ability with accessible pop undertones.

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Wednesday, Mar 4 / Doors 8:30pm, Show 9pm-12:30am / Eastside Tavern Local rockers Cowgirl Jordy and Fumes are joined by the hip-hop-infused instrumental jazz of South Bend duo After Ours for the perfect kick-off into the weekend’s festivities. Free for Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $5.

50 EASTSIDE THURSDAY HAPPY HOUR SHOWCASE

Thursday, Mar 5 / Doors 5:30pm, Show 6pm-8pm / Eastside Tavern Austin’s Little Mazarn and Columbia’s Cosmic Riders display their unique takes on Americana in this calm and captivating Thursday evening concert. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged.

51 BERLIN THURSDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE

Thursday, Mar 5 / Doors 7pm, Show 8pm-11:30pm / Cafe Berlin A remarkable exhibition of American singer-songwriters, featuring the talents of D.C.’s James Tillman, Los Angeles’s Sunny War and St. Louis’s Cara Louise. Free for Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $8 in advance, $10 day-of show.

52 EASTSIDE FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR SHOWCASE

Friday, Mar 6 / Doors 5:30pm, Show 6pm-8pm / Eastside Tavern This lively Friday evening bill brings together Los Angeles outfit El Haru Kuroi's unique style of Latin jazz and Kansas City natives NuBlvckCity's energetic brand of neo-soul. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged.

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53 BERLIN FRIDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE

Friday, Mar 6 / Doors 7pm, Show 8pm-11:30pm / Cafe Berlin Modern jazz great Angel Bat Dawid (Chicago) is joined by fellow experimentalists Thanya Iyer (Montreal), Abstract Black (Nashville), and Saltbreaker (Michigan) in this dreamy avant-garde showcase. Free for Super/Silver and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $8 in advance, $10 day-of show.

54 THE BLUE NOTE AFTERPARTY WITH DÂM-FUNK

Friday, Mar 6 / Doors 10:30pm, Show 11pm-1am / The Blue Note A T(ruly)/F(unked)-out affair featuring Fest favorite and preeminent purveyor of modern funk music Dâm-Funk, DJing the dance floor into a frenzy. Free for Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $10.

55 UPSTREAM SHOWCASE AT LOGBOAT

Saturday, Mar 7 / Show 2pm-4pm / Logboat Brewing Co. Escape the chaos of downtown Columbia and head upstream to Logboat where folksy favorites Monzie Leo and Hot Missoury tickle your ears while you enjoy some of Columbia’s best brews. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged.

56 EASTSIDE SATURDAY HAPPY HOUR SHOWCASE

Saturday, Mar 7 / Doors 5:30pm, Show 6pm-8pm / Eastside Tavern Fest favorites Tonina (St. Louis) and Mesonjixx (Lincoln) bring their splendid soulful stylings to an evening showcase perfectly suited to start your Saturday night. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged.

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57 SANCTUARY SHOWCASE

Saturday, Mar 7 / Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm-8:30pm / Calvary Episcopal Church Two giants in the world of contemporary guitar face off in downtown’s historic Calvary Episcopal, as East Coast representative Yasmin Williams and Chicago’s Andreas Kapsalis regale the crowd with extraordinary technique and songwriting. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged.

58 BERLIN SATURDAY NIGHT SHOWCASE

Saturday, Mar 7 / Doors 7pm, Show 8pm-11:30pm / Cafe Berlin A bill filled with head-nodding hip-hop and swagged-out soul, featuring Virginia-based McKinley Dixon, Columbia’s own Loose Loose, Chicagobred Jay Wood, and Nigeria-via-New York DJ/saxophonist Eli Fola. Free for Super/Silver and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $8 in advance, $10 day of show.

59 TRUE/FALSE AFTER-PARTY AT ROSE MUSIC HALL

Saturday, Mar 7 / Doors 8:30pm, Show 9:30pm-12:30am / Rose Music Hall This annual showcase features Toronto dance cavalier DOOMSQUAD, LA indie luminary Chris Cohen, and sonic tinkerer Square Peg Round Hole for Saturday’s climactic close. Free for Super/Silver and Lux passholders, and Stay Up Late wristbands; general admission is $10 in advance, $12 day-of show.

60 HITT REXX SESSIONS

Sunday, Mar 8 / Show 10pm-12am / Hitt Records Close out the weekend with the contemplative indie-rock croonings of L.A.’s Ada Lea and the quirky indie pop of Iowa’s Karen Meat. Free and open to the public; donations encouraged. 79

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ART & DESIGN WHAT BEGAN 17 YEARS AGO as visual backdrop is now an integral part of every aspect of the Fest; art is one of the key pillars of our creative program. This year, you’ll find esoteric and straightforward interpretations of the Foresight concept throughout (in addition to a healthy dose of familiar standbys). This year’s artists explore the breadth and depth of media—from the familiar (painting, textiles) to the weird (stuffed animals [we’re not kidding]) to the relevant (surveillance tactics)— and ask you, our lovely audience, to dive deep as you consider what art can show us about ourselves.

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FORESIGHT With so many zeros, we knew 2020 was bound to be full of circles. So, way back in the halcyon days of early spring 2019, circles were on our minds: things like eyes, worlds, spheres, data visualization, city planning. Exploring further, we found ourselves focusing on vision (see what we did there?), and while we couldn’t help but think of the old adage that “hindsight is 2020,” ultimately FORESIGHT resonated much more deeply. We read up on the many ways humanity considers what’s next: from pragmatism, knowledge, and plans through tea leaves, fortune-tellers, ESP, and the like. But, as always, we found special guidance from artists who, whatever the medium, are often the best barometers of what’s to come. As we applied this context to the poster, we were inspired by the symbolladen art of the tarot deck and dreamt a new card: “Foresight.” To pull this off, we turned to our past, collaborating with designer and art director Erik Buckham and illustrator Akiko Stehrenberger (with whom we last worked with in 2015). We dove deep into divination, from abacomancy (dust) to zygomancy (weights), some of which (like that chicken foot) found their way into the border graphics. From there, a playful, metaphorical reading of the theme led us to the figure emerging from a human heart. Cast in bronze, this person essentially blinds themselves by covering one eye and closing the other. But their vision isn’t blocked, just shifted. They perceive the world in different, new ways— something we hope you experience this weekend. 85

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BUMPERS For this year’s bumpers, director Chelsea Wright employed a mix of handdrawn and computer-assisted animation to explore the lives of individuals who created moments of foresight. Their histories are filled with complexity, disputed by scholars, withered and diluted by time. Working with a skeleton crew of animators and a first-rate composer, Wright offers a chance for audiences to meditate on our collective obsession with prognostication through these short vignettes.

In Delphi, Greece, a succession of women known as the Pythia were renowned throughout the ancient world for the verity of their predictions. Breathing vapors that seeped out of fissures in the rocks, they uttered words that changed the course of civilizations. Modern science correlates the end of the oracle’s 1,200-year reign with an earthquake that choked the mysterious gases. Tenskwatawa, known as “The Prophet,” was the brother of Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief who united a number of American Indian tribes to protect their lands and way of life. William Henry Harrison, then the governor of the Indiana Territory, sought to discredit the brothers and challenged The Prophet to produce a miracle. Through science or intuition, Tenskwatawa correctly anticipated a total eclipse. Thousands gathered from nearby tribes to witness the spectacle and were inspired to join the movement.

Edmond Halley wasn’t the first to spot his eponymous comet—Chinese astronomers recorded its appearance in the night sky in 239 B.C.—but Halley was the first to recognize its 76-year cycle. Missouri’s favorite son, Mark Twain, was born as the comet appeared in 1835. Despondent over the loss of both his wife and favored daughter in 1909, he predicted that he’d die when the comet reappeared. Science fiction offers a literary tradition of foresight. Since the 1800s, authors have found inspiration in the new science of their eras, motivating future engineers, physicians, and scientists to realize their flights of fictitious fancy. Our final bumper honors some of the visionaries who melded fact and fiction—from Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne to Octavia Butler. 87

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ART INSTALLATIONS BOX OFFICE (Map #01) As you pick up your passes and tickets in the Main Gallery at Sager Braudis Gallery, you’ll be among the first to spend time with THE MARCH EXHIBIT, featuring the visionary art of Tobi C, Saj Issa, Tod Seelie, and Pat Falco. Sager Braudis Gallery is not only the central hub of the festival as our Box Office but the heart of the North Village Arts District. On your way out, take some time with local artist Zoe Hawk’s DAY DREAMERS TAROT exhibit in the East Gallery; this work was commissioned by the Fest in order to create a limited-edition deck of tarot cards, in keeping with our 2020 theme and available for purchase via our Merch stores. JESSE HALL (Map #02) Local artist Tavia Sanza’s massive embroidery installation GROWTH changes and grows with each location, the Jesse rotunda being its newest home. Every time it finds a new residence, it is stitched back together, healing some areas of trauma while leaving others raw and exposed, losing material in some locations and gaining material in others. In this way, the piece is constantly in flux and every version is unique to its time and place. MISSOURI THEATRE (Map #03) The idea of the zoetrope preceded moving pictures; within THE ZOETROPE TOWER, crafted by artists Mark Steck (Marseille, France) and Daniel Heggarty (CoMo), you’ll see images come alive through this technique that provided the foresight that led to film as we know it today.

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THE PICTUREHOUSE (Map #05) LOBBY In the age of selfies and social media, our culture has become increasingly obsessed with images of the self. Using a grid of independently controlled mirrored tiles, PERIPHERY, by Chicago-based artists Steven Krejcik and Paul Kirby, aims to explore the effects of removing the self from the mirror-viewing experience. Although it seems passive, reading surveillance is an active process, one that interrogates truth in images that seem banal. A SYSTEM OF HIDING THINGS by New Orleanian Angela Catalano asks participants to engage with the types of 3D surveillance images that permeate our news cycles, couched within the conveniences of our homes. This installation collapses generations of technology, complicating the intentional and unintentional assumptions applied to imagery. PICTUREHOUSE PORTRAIT PROJECT This larger-than-life sociology project, featuring video portraits of our fellow mid-Missourians, pairs well with every busker and provides an almost meditative immersive experience as you sit back and wait for the next doc to begin. Shot and edited by Nathan Truesdell, Sam Spencer, Steve Rice, Rick Agran, Nick Michael, Chelsea Wright, Livvy Runyon, Haley Padilla, Katie Canepa, and MU Mirco-Doc classes.

GANNETT HALL (Map #06) Equally inspired by Zoltar and cephalonomancy, DIVINATION DISPENSER, created by Cassidy Shearrer, vends old-school fortunetellers to aid you in your quest for foresight. Be sure to bring spare change or your preferred coinage. The price of fortune will vary. THE GLOBE (Map #07) LAWN As you pass by The Globe Theater, take a gander at the late, great Willy Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DRAGON, drawing power from the mycelium of The Globe lawn. 91

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Barb LOBBY & THEATER Camellia Cosgray’s lighted MAP continues to beam inside the theater, while the south side of the room features stained-glass panels designed by a local gang of merrymakers; these glowing marvels are made entirely of tissue paper and glue. In the lobby, explore the UNFOUND TAPESTRIES; detailed, fantastical maps by fiber artist Tracy Greever-Rice, woven by a team of Columbians out of unwanted clothing and fabric. You’ll also want to play with the interactive MAPACUS!, featuring various iterations of our globe. Finally, everyone’s favorite buffalo, BARB, returns for her ninth year, once again sporting thousands of keyboard keys.

FORREST THEATER (Map #08) Tree by TREE, Michael Marcum continues his metal reforestation project—2020 boasts his 15th handcrafted metalwork tree. In the theater, the infamous moonlit birch forest glows.

HITTSVILLE (Map #09) UPRISE GALLERY There exists an angle of the universe that can only be reached by exploring the intuitive pathways of our dream states, as fragments of reality collide like magnets in our subconscious, illuminating an experience that is at once figment and material. Carli Rabon’s collection of stills, FRAGMENTS, seeks to engage with our journey toward accessing these hidden corners of memory. WILLY WILSON THEATER Ragtag’s small theater has been permanently transformed to honor Willy’s legacy; a favorite quote was lovingly painted on the cinder-block walls by family friend and local artist Jessie Starbuck, while local artist Michael Marcum crafted an intricate maze of pipes and detritus from Willy’s personal collection. 93

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AROUND THE FEST Glenn Rice, T/F’s sign czar, is truly an artist; his VENUE SIGNS transcend the strictly informational. Check out the Box Office banners, the Showtime Documentary Films signs at The Blue Note, the Picturehouse Portal, the Forrest Theater sign, and the Globe sign. PARTIES At @CTION, DIGITAL CLAIRVOYANCE, by Chicago-based artist Madeline Carl, is a series of videos prompted by the use of visual data in making predictions, highlighting the graphics and predictive technologies of decades past. Alongside these digital manipulations, Milwaukee-based artist Kristina Rolander has created NEON FOREST REMIX II, a reimagining of her work from T/F 2019. This immersive visual experience of lush and vibrant junglescapes will practically come to life as you shake that moneymaker. Elsewhere, those festgoers looking toward the future may stumble upon new or distorted visions of what’s next, created by the collective minds of NEON TREEHOUSE (local artists Brian Doss and Gabe Meyer). ALLEY A Local artist Carrie Elliott’s new work, ANIMAL VISION, lines Alley A with gigantic, illuminated re-creations of the eyes of cheetahs, llamas, geckos, and other animals, which may feel like they’re watching as you traverse one of the arteries of the Fest footprint.

THE SCULPTURE YARD (NINTH BETWEEN LOCUST & ELM) (Map #18) Everyone’s favorite inflatable-design collective, Pneuhaus, has gotten into the habit of making the trek from Rhode Island every March, and it’s back in 2020 with THE COMPOUND CAMERA. This multifaceted, immersive environment explores the mechanisms of sight, comprising 109 pinhole cameras, each with a slightly different viewport. From a single vantage point, viewers experience a mode of vision that can be compared to being inside an insect’s eye. 95

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The Temple by Kirsten Angerbauer Behold: THE TRASH ORACLE! Created by Chicago-based artists Kellie Wyatt, Skye Fort, and The American Landfill, this fortunetelling marvel isn’t for the faint of heart. Those wishing to glimpse the future of the human race are invited into The Oracle’s great trash lair, where they will receive an extremely accurate prediction of the impending apocalypse. Kirsten Angerbauer’s new work, THE TEMPLE (A PHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE FRUITLESS PURSUIT OF MEANING), demonstrates how our idea of foresight can shift in an age of instantaneous information. The piece invites viewers to immerse themselves into one of three tetrahedral sculptures, absorb the work’s generative sonic landscape, and interrogate the pursuit of meaning in contemporary art and culture.

NIGHT VISIONS (Map #17) Night Visions is True/False’s outdoor video art installation series, projected onto the north side of The Rise (located at the corner of Ninth and Locust) as well as the south side of The Picturehouse (Missouri United Methodist Church); runs from 8pm to 11pm all four nights of the festival. Artists Jordan Doig and Stephanie Gould present COSMOS, a video projection installation piece, composed of varying fields of color and organic forms, distorted and refracted through an arrangement of moving prisms. Each colored sphere exists as its own complete world, the collection of which creates a constellation of perpetually transforming spaces as every image grows and overlaps with the next. A singular vision, represented by a straight beam of light, is thrown into a multifaceted crystal, splintering the image out in infinite directions.

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FIELD SESSIONS The festival panel is a tired tradition, and T/F is doing its part to jettison it once and for all with our intimate Field Sessions. These close encounters between artists provide an unsurpassed intimacy that can’t be achieved in a multiperson panel. Each session will be live-recorded for the True/False Podcast. All Field Sessions are free and open to the public.

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Friday, Mar 6 / 1:30pm–2:30pm / Little Chapel @ The Picturehouse with Ursula Liange and Khalik Allah Ursula Liang (Down a Dark Stairwell) and Khalik Allah (IWOW: I Walk on Water) freely alternate between journalism, photography, and cinema as they approach their subjects. The two artists will discuss their investment in exploring intersubjectivities and reshaping documentary grammar.

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Friday, Mar 6 / 3pm–4pm / Little Chapel @ The Picturehouse with Marnie Ellen Hertzler and Mitch McCabe Marnie Ellen Hertzler (Crestone) and Mitch McCabe (“Civil War Surveillance Poems: Part 1”) both draw from apocalyptic themes as they interrogate rustic communities. From thorny ethical questions to their creative processes, the directors will excavate personal meaning from their complex films.

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Saturday, Mar 7 / 1pm–2pm / Little Chapel @ The Picturehouse with Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and Basir Mahmood Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Viewing Booth) and Basir Mahmood (“Good Ended Happily”) have created provocative films with embedded social and historical commentary. Together, they will examine their curiosities and the nuances of perspective.

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Saturday, Mar 7 / 11:45am-1pm / Willy Wilson @ Ragtag Join editors Dessane Lopez Cassell (reviews) and Dan Schindel (documentary) of online arts magazine, Hyperallergic, for a panel discussion with leading critics, makers, and programmers on the challenges and quirks of writing about documentary in the current era. How do we navigate considerations of form, storytelling, audience expectations, and ever-evolving methods of distribution and access? These and many other questions will serve as a jumping-off point for some lively discourse. Reserved ticket required; free via the Q.

66 THE RAMBLE A: Saturday, Mar 7 / 12pm-12:30pm / Box Office B: Saturday, Mar 7 / 3:30pm-4pm / Box Office C: Sunday, Mar 8 / 12pm-12:30pm / Box Office D: Sunday, Mar 8 / 3:30pm-4pm / Box Office Is it T/F’s best-kept secret or worst-publicized temporary installation? (Our sources say both ... or perhaps neither.) Those with the foresight to set aside time for The Ramble, a collective poetic improvisation masquerading as a conventional downtown walking tour, will surely be rewarded. Under the guidance of longtime chaperone Gabriel Williams, this unclassifiable experience seeks to explore new ways of seeing, rewiring our appreciation for the built environment, and uniting the future with the past while scrambling traditional ideas about performance, intention, and divination. Free and open to the public.

67 TAVIA STANZA ARTIST TALK

Saturday, Mar 7 / 2pm–3pm / Bingham Gallery Fiber artist Tavia Sanza discusses Growth, installed in the rotunda at Jesse Hall, among other pieces. This artist talk provides an opportunity to learn more about her work, process, and the progression of her installation as it continues to evolve. Free and open to the public.

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Dirs. Elissa Blount Moorhead, Bradford Young; 2019; 21min Mar 5–8 / Thursday, 5:30pm-8pm / Friday, 11am-8pm / Saturday, 11am-8pm / Sunday, 11am-8pm // Gallery 28 / 28 N. Ninth A meditative four-channel film and art installation that reflects on health and wellness as part and parcel of the American black experience from cradle to grave. Back and Song considers the labor and care provided by generations of black healers—doctors, nurses, midwives, morticians, therapists, and health aides—and their histories of contribution to and resistance of the flawed and discriminatory structures of Western medicine.

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BOTTLED SONGS 1 + 2 Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee; 2019; video installation; 19 min Two researchers investigate the dissemination of propaganda created by the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State and contemplate the media’s role in spreading this message. Exchanging video letters recorded from their computer desktops, the researchers share their thoughts and fears as they each dissect pieces of media produced by ISIS in 2014 that are still available online today.

DENOISE Giorgio Ferrero & Federico Biasin; 2017; VR; 13 min Silence and noise dictate the rhythms of daily routines of workers, whose solitary jobs thrust the industrial world forward. An oil field in Texas, the engine room of an ocean-going freighter, and an immense anechoic chamber in Switzerland are backdrops for their process of creation, transport, validation, and destruction.

THE LEAP: INSIDE ARCHITECT DORTE MANDRUP’S MIND Ane Skak & Niels Bjørn; 2019; VR; 21 min A stunning illustration of Danish architect Dorte Mandrup’s creative process, The Leap explores the intersection of living images, animation, and 3D modelling. This project documents Mandrup’s creation of the iconic Wadden Sea Centre by the west coast of Jutland, Denmark, and the majestic Icefjord Centre in Ilulissat, Greenland.

LIVING DISTANCE Xin Liu; 2020; immersive; 10 min It’s an old Chinese tradition that when a child loses a top tooth, they bury it in the ground. A displaced bottom tooth is tossed up to the ceiling. Inspired by this practice, artist and mechanical engineer Xin Liu launched her bottom wisdom tooth into space. Hitch a ride through the stratosphere on the celestial journey of this tiny, lifeless rock of flesh.

LUX SINE Alex Suber; 2019; immersive; 12 min Deep in the Black Hills of South Dakota lies the Wind Cave, also host to a subterranean Sanford Research Lab. This interactive piece unravels the cosmos through parallel explorations of darkness at a former gold mine turned cutting-edge laboratory 4,850 feet below ground and in a labyrinth of ancient passageways at the heart of the Lakota Sioux creation story.

TX-REVERSE 360° Martin Reinhart & Virgil Widrich; 2019; VR; 5 min This unsettling voyage of cinema-in-cinema flips time and space, exchanging the time (t) and space (x) axis. Instead of the film frame representing a brief moment of time in space, the tx-transformation shows a tiny part of the space in time. 105

Thursday Schedule SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

MISSOURI THEATRE

JESSE

THE PICTUREHOUSE

GANNETT HALL

THE GLOBE

FORREST THEATER

BIG RAGTAG

WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

LITTLE CHAPEL @ THE PICTUREHOUSE

CAFE BERLIN

OTHER MUSIC

EVENTS

4pm

4pm 31A

08A

Some Kind of Heaven

5pm

(4:30-5:51pm)

(4:30-6:04pm)

(4:30-6:19pm)

23A

38A 25A

Time

(7-8:33pm)

Crip Camp

8pm

The Faculties (5-6:25pm)

(5:30-6:43pm)

(5:30-6:45pm)

10A

09A Crestone

The Jubilee

7pm

5pm

14A

45365

Collective

6pm

03A

Mucho Mucho Amor

(7:15-8:57pm)

46A

The Metamorphosis of Birds

N/N: Films of Tom Palazzolo

(7-8:41pm)

(7:15-8:42pm)

(7:30-9:06pm)

6pm

Eastside Thursday Happy Hour

7pm

(6-8pm)

30A 22A

So Late So Soon

8pm

(7:30-8:40pm)

Mayor

(8-9:27pm)

9pm

10pm

15A

02A Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

11pm

(10-11:38pm)

19A

9pm

27A

06A

Faith

(9:45-11:18pm)

Berlin Thursday Night Showcase

20A

Pier Kids

A Machine to Live In

(10-11:38pm)

Lovemobil

(8-11:30pm)

(10-11:19pm)

11pm

(10:30-11:57pm)

(10:30pm-12:16am)

10pm

Catskin

@CTION party (10pm-1:30am)

12am

1am

12am

1am

FILMS

EVENTS

SYNAPSES

CONCERTS • Q&As (15–20 mins.) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE RUNTIME

T/F VENUE WALKING TIMES Distance in minutes BOX OFFICE JESSE MISSOURI THEATRE SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE THE PICTUREHOUSE GANNETT HALL THE GLOBE FORREST THEATER RAGTAG EASTSIDE TAVERN CAFE BERLIN OR ROSE MUSIC HALL LOGBOAT CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH STUDIO 4 THE ATRIUM

ASL INTERPRETATION FOR INTRO AND Q&A (for more accessability info, see Pages 176-177)

All walking times are an approximation based on Google Maps. Take into consideration your own pace and whether or not the streets are icy!

BOX OFFICE

JESSE

MISSOURI THEATRE

SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

THE PICTUREHOUSE

GANNETT HALL

THE GLOBE

FORREST THEATER

RAGTAG

EASTSIDE TAVERN

CAFE BERLIN OR ROSE MUSIC HALL

LOGBOAT

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

STUDIO 4

THE ATRIUM

X 14 7 3 7 10 5 6 5 4 4 12 7 16 8

14 X 7 10 6 4 10 8 10 11 15 23 6 6 7

7 7 X 6 1 3 5 4 5 5 8 16 1 10 3

3 10 6 X 4 8 4 4 5 3 4 12 4 15 5

7 6 1 4 X 3 4 3 4 5 8 16 1 10 3

10 4 3 8 3 X 8 4 8 8 12 19 3 10 9

5 10 5 4 4 8 X 4 1 2 6 15 4 10 6

6 8 4 4 3 4 4 X 4 4 7 15 3 14 3

5 10 5 5 4 8 1 4 X 1 6 15 4 11 6

4 11 5 3 5 8 2 4 1 X 4 13 5 12 7

4 15 8 4 8 12 6 7 6 4 X 8 9 16 11

12 23 16 12 16 19 15 15 15 13 8 X 17 25 19

7 6 1 4 1 3 4 3 4 5 9 17 X 11 5

16 6 10 15 10 10 10 14 11 12 16 25 11 X 13

8 7 3 5 3 9 6 3 6 7 11 19 5 13 X

Friday Schedule

JESSE

SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

MISSOURI THEATRE

THE PICTUREHOUSE

GANNETT HALL

THE GLOBE

FORREST THEATER

BIG RAGTAG

WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

LITTLE CHAPEL @ THE PICTUREHOUSE

CAFE BERLIN

OTHER MUSIC

EVENTS

9am

10am

11am

23B

12pm

The Metamorphosis of Birds (11am-12:41pm)

11A Dick Johnson is Dead

(11:15am-12:44pm)

19B Lovemobil

32A

Sunless Shadows

N/N: still/here (11am-12pm)

(11am-12:14pm)

(11am-12:46pm)

11am

39a

37A Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

(11:15am-12:27pm)

12a Dope is Death

Unskinned

(11am-12:16pm)

12pm

(11:30am-12:48pm)

1pm

01A

3pm

40A

34A

The Viewing Booth (2-3:10pm)

Talking About Trees (2-3:33pm)

Welcome to Chechnya

43A 22b Mayor

(2:30-3:57pm)

Time

73A

(4:45-6:18pm)

31B Some Kind of Heaven

8pm

(7-8:21pm)

73B

Crip Camp (10-11:42pm)

24a

05A

The Mole Agent

Boys State

(7:15-8:45pm)

30b

Seven Years in May (4-5:03pm)

So Late So Soon (4-5:10pm)

(1:30-2:30pm)

2pm

62 Immersion

3pm 4pm

36A 17a

That Cloud Never Left

(4:15-5:21pm)

The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (4:45-5:54pm)

42A

A Machine to Live In

Shorts: Bock (7-8:11pm)

(7-8:27pm)

26A Nofinofy

(6:45-7:58pm)

09b Crestone

18a

(7-8:13pm)

71b

Talking About Trees

04a Aswang

(9:15-10:40pm)

08b Collective (9-10:49pm)

Feels Good Man

(7:30-10:50pm)

(9:15-10:25pm)

(9:30-11:03pm)

Down a Dark Stairwell

6pm

Eastside Friday Happy Hour

7pm

(6-8pm)

(7-8:32pm)

21a

Berlin Friday Night Showcase

8pm

IWOW: I Walk on Water

28A Ridge

9pm małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (9:30-11:01pm)

(8-11:30pm)

74 Campfire Stories (9:30-10:45pm)

54 The Blue Note After-party with Dâm-Funk

12am

5pm

March March (5:15-6pm)

13A

Q(uench) & A(nswer) (8:15-9pm)

16b (10:15-11:50pm)

Pier Kids

(1:30-3:08pm)

(3-4pm)

29A

(4:30-5:49pm)

20b

34b

11pm

28a Ridge

(5:30-7pm)

(7:15-9:04pm)

10B

(1:30-3:05pm)

(2-3:10pm)

Q(uench) + A(nswer) Catskin (3:05-3:50pm)

9pm 10pm

Feels Good Man

61 Oscillation

Reality Bites

Reality Bites (5:30-7pm)

7pm

N/N: Films of Mike Henderson (1:30-2:45pm)

71a

06b 66A

38B

5pm

27b

(2-3:21pm)

Q(uench) & A(nswer) (3:25-4:10pm)

(2:30-4:17pm)

4pm

6pm

Shorts: Rouge

16a

10pm 75 Short Circuit Party (10:30pm-12:30am)

2pm

45A

11pm 12am

(11pm-1am)

1am FILMS

1am EVENTS

SYNAPSES

CONCERTS • Q&As (15–20 mins.) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE RUNTIME

ASL INTERPRETATION FOR INTRO AND Q&A (for more accessability info, see Pages 176-177)

JESSE

MISSOURI THEATRE

24b

22c

The Mole Agent

Mayor

SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

THE PICTUREHOUSE

GANNETT HALL

THE GLOBE

21b

40b

małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (9:30-11:01am)

The Viewing Booth (9:30-10:40am)

FORREST THEATER

BIG RAGTAG

WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

LITTLE CHAPEL @ THE PICTUREHOUSE

OTHER MUSIC

CAFE BERLIN

EVENTS

9am

(9:30-10:57am)

Boys State

(9:45-11:34am)

11am

City So Real (Episodes 1-4) (10am-2:15pm)

16c Feels Good Man (12:30-2:05pm)

01b

(12:15-2:02pm)

32b

Down a Dark Stairwell

Sunless Shadows

12b

Shorts: Blanc

Dope is Death

71c

(12:15-1:14pm)

(12:45-2:03pm)

3pm 4pm

38D

5pm

(4-5:33pm)

Time

Crestone

(3:30-4:43pm)

Collective

(3:30-5:19pm)

Crip Camp

(11:45-1:27pm)

38c

06c Catskin

Time

(12:15-1:48pm)

The Faculties

31c

26b

That Cloud Never Left

Some Kind of Heaven

(2:45-3:58pm)

(2:45-4:06pm)

45b N/N: Films of Mike Henderson (5-6:15pm)

(7-8:29pm)

27c

02b

Pier Kids

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

(7-8:38pm)

(7:15-8:53pm)

44a Shorts: Rye (7-8:13pm)

71d Q(uench) & A(nswer) (8:15-9pm)

9pm 10pm 11pm

25b Mucho Mucho Amor (9:45-11:21pm)

20c A Machine to Live In (10-11:27pm)

29b 77 Gimme Truth! (10:15-11:45pm)

Seven Years in May (9:45-10:48pm)

Nofinofy

Lovemobil (2-3:46pm)

55 Upstream Showcase at Logboat

64 Dimensions

66b

(2-4pm)

(3-4pm)

40C The Viewing Booth (5:15-6:25pm)

39b Unskinned (7:15-8:31pm)

21c małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (5:30-7:01pm)

City So Real

(Episodes 1 & 2) (7:30-9:30pm)

30c So Late So Soon

(9:30-10:55pm)

17b

4pm

Filmmaker Fête

5pm

Tchoupitoulas (5-6:22pm)

Dope is Death

23C

Berlin Saturday Night Showcase

(7:30-8:48pm)

6pm

7pm 8pm

(8-9:10pm)

9pm

15b

The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (10:15-11:24pm)

Faith

(10:15-11:48pm)

The Metamorphosis of Birds (9:45-11:26pm)

10pm

(8pm-11:30pm)

True/False After-party at Rose Saturday Night

(9:30pm-12:30am)

12am 1am FILMS

3pm

The Ramble (3:30-4pm)

(4-6pm)

12c

07b

2pm

Tavia Sanza Artist Talk (2-3pm)

35a

04c Aswang

12pm 1pm

(2:15-5:35pm)

(5:45-7:10pm)

8pm

63 Interrogation

(12:15-1:34pm)

36b

Aswang

Dick Johnson is Dead

(11:45am-1pm)

(1-2pm)

IWOW: I Walk on Water

04b

11b

The Ramble (12-12:30pm)

19c

(2:45-3:51pm)

14b

66A

Hyperallergic

(3:45-5:10pm)

6pm 7pm

11am 65

18b

09c

10am

(9:30-10:42am)

Q(uench) & A(nswer) (1:15-2pm)

2pm

08c

Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another

(10am-11:14am)

10c 41a

Welcome to Chechnya

13b

(10-11:32am)

INTERMISSION 15 MIN

12pm 1pm

07a

(7-8:30pm)

(9:30-11am)

05b

Sanctuary Showcase

10am

9am 37b

Eastside Saturday Happy Hour (6pm-8pm)

SPINE SIDE\Gutter of Book

Saturday Schedule

11pm 12am 1am

EVENTS

SYNAPSES

CONCERTS • Q&As (15–20 mins.) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE RUNTIME

ASL INTERPRETATION FOR INTRO AND Q&A (for more accessability info, see Pages 176-177)

sunday Schedule

JESSE

MISSOURI THEATRE

SHOWTIME THEATER @ THE BLUE NOTE

32c

24c

02c

14c

Sunless Shadows

The Mole Agent

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

The Faculties

THE PICTUREHOUSE

GANNETT HALL

THE GLOBE

FORREST THEATER

BIG RAGTAG

WILLY WILSON @ RAGTAG

LITTLE CHAPEL @ THE PICTUREHOUSE

CAFE BERLIN

OTHER MUSIC

EVENTS

9am 10am

9am

(9:30-10:44am)

(9:30-11am)

(Episodes 1 & 2) (9:30-11:30am)

11am 12pm 1pm

01c Welcome to Chechnya

2pm

(12:45-2:32pm)

So Late So Soon (12:30-1:40pm)

Crip Camp

(12:45-2:27pm)

5pm

Mucho Mucho Amor

35b Tchoupitoulas

(2:45-4:18pm)

39c Unskinned

(4:45-6:01pm)

8pm

11c 16d

(7-8:29pm)

Feels Good Man

Boys State

(7:30-9:05pm)

(7:30-9:19pm)

Shorts: Rouge (7:15-8:36pm)

12pm 1pm

(12:30-1:55pm)

28c 44b

36c

Shorts: Rye

That Cloud Never Left

(3-4:13pm)

Catskin

(5-6:19pm)

Ridge

3pm

(2:30-3:40pm)

66D

(3-4:06pm)

The Ramble (3:30-4pm)

N/N: Films of Tom Palazzolo

18c

Seven Years in May (5-6:03pm)

6pm

(5:15-6:42pm)

28d Ridge

(5:30-8:50pm)

21d

37c

małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (7:30-9:01am)

Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another

(7:30-8:42pm)

4pm 5pm

29c

46b

IWOW: I Walk on Water

43B

(8-9:10pm)

9pm

(2:30-3:57pm)

(5:30-6:57pm)

(6-7pm)

Dick Johnson is Dead

A Machine to Live In

Mayor

Closing Night Reception

05c

N/N: The Gloria Tapes

20d

06d 22d

(5-6:22pm)

7pm

66C The Ramble (12-12:30pm)

The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (12-1:09pm)

2pm

Faith

(3-4:13pm)

(3:30-5:06pm)

(4-5:32pm)

6pm

Shorts: Bock (12:45-1:56pm)

15c

Nofinofy

25c

Down a Dark Stairwell

11am

City So Real

26c

13c

A Supa Special Wakaliwood Event for All T/F Commandos (10:15-11:16am)

42b

(12:15-1:14pm)

(Episodes 3 & 4) (1-3pm)

3pm 4pm

Shorts: Blanc

07d

10am

33a

17c

41b

30D

10d

Weird Wake-up (9:30-10:15am)

City So Real

(9:30-10:55am)

(9:30-11:08am)

07c

7pm 09d Crestone

8pm

(7:30-8:43pm)

9pm

Buskers Last Stand (9-10pm)

10pm 11pm

10pm

Hitt Rexx Sessions

11pm

(10pm-12am)

12am

12am 81 Toasted (12:30-4am)

1am FILMS

EVENTS

SYNAPSES

CONCERTS • Q&As (15–20 mins.) ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE RUNTIME

ASL INTERPRETATION FOR INTRO AND Q&A (for more accessability info, see Pages 176-177)

1am

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OVERVIEW Ragtag Film Society’s learner-centered approach honors the roles that people of all ages play as both teachers and learners, deliberately blurring notions of expertise. From Fest programs like Camp T/F, DIY Day, and Jumpstarters, to hosting community screenings and field trips at Ragtag Cinema, the RFS Community Partnerships & Education team carves a year-round path of engagement for students, educators, and community members. Through PRISM, Rough Cut Retreat, and the Mentorship Program, the T/F Programming team crafts programs for filmmakers at all stages of their careers, facilitating discussions and workshops designed to further film projects, connecting filmmakers with each other and industry professionals, and serving as a catalyst for conversations that advance the form of nonfiction film and expand the lens through which reality is constructed. These programs provide opportunities for engagement with nonfiction film across the spectrum, contributing to a more informed community of media consumers and inspiring the current and next generation of filmmakers.

RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY & THE MEDIA LITERACY INITIATIVE Based on a decade of high school outreach, Ragtag Film Society’s Media Literacy Initiative is one of the festival’s proudest projects. A year-round collaboration between Columbia Public Schools; the Columbia Public Schools Foundation; and RFS’s two projects, the True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema, we help high school teachers incorporate more media literacy into their classrooms. This multiyear program employs media practitioners to train teachers, offers curation to existing school curricula, provides field trips to Ragtag Cinema, and culminates in True/False’s Media Literacy Summer Institute. Our work recognizes that many students are already documentarians; they are constantly recording, archiving, and compiling fragments of their daily lives. They are making rhetorical and editorial decisions on social media platforms. They are in a world of ever-changing media, and it is essential to have the skills to be thoughtful, discerning creators and consumers. RFS’s Community Partnerships & Education team distributes hundreds of tickets to youths, provides dozens of class visits, hosts year-round programming, and more. We know the Fest has the power to create deep impressions on young people at the crucial time they are discovering and inventing themselves. By bringing students together with artists, journalists, and mavericks of all stripes, the Fest inspires students to envision the possibilities of crafting a life within the arts and empowers them to navigate the complex world they’re poised to inherit.

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Learn EDUCATION SCREENING Every year, we partner with Columbia Public Schools to host a field trip for all CPS high school sophomores—almost 1,400 students. True to T/F style, students and teachers fill Jesse Auditorium to the tunes of a T/F busker and stay after the screening for a filmmaker Q&A. The 2020 Education Screening is Margaret Brown’s The Order of Myths.

DIY DAY Back for its sixth year, DIY Day is our specially crafted field trip for high school students on the Friday of the Fest. One hundred students fan out across studios and creative spaces in the North Village Arts District for hands-on workshops hosted by festival artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Students engage in an “alternative career day,” where they both learn about the artists’ work and how to craft a creative life. Then, after a recap, students and teachers join the raucous March March parade.

CAMP TRUE/FALSE A select group of students from all four Columbia public high schools (Douglass, Battle, Hickman, and Rock Bridge) dive deep into the Fest and experience the weekend with a diverse crew of exceptional filmmakers, artists, and musicians. Camp T/F students prepare for the Fest by meeting to watch and research films, learn media literacy skills, and discuss documentary journalism and storytelling during pre-Fest meetings. Students are then guided through the Fest, where they watch six to eight films, have dinner with filmmakers, engage in workshops with scholars and artists, and complete a creative project of their own. After the Fest, students meet to reflect on their time and share their creative work with one another.

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JUMPSTARTERS For years, True/False has welcomed groups of young peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;independent filmmakers, artists, collegiates, graduate students, and more. As these contingents have grown, the Fest has sprouted programming opportunities to connect and learn from one another and the larger T/F ecosystem. The Faculty Forum (where film professors from across the country share resources and discuss best practices) and the Saturday Symposium (an opportunity for attendees to hear from industry professionals on pertinent issues within nonfiction filmmaking, followed by breakout sessions with T/F filmmakers) help to foster the nonfiction landscape of tomorrow. Creative nonfiction must be more diverse and inclusive, and this is one way we are seeking to lower barriers and build community. Jumpstarters Symposium presented by Sony

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2020 FILMMAKERS MICHAËL ANDRIANALY, director, Nofinofy YONI GOLDSTEIN & MEREDITH ZIELKE, directors, A Machine to Live In INA LUCHSPERGER, director, Catskin LANCE OPPENHEIM, director, Some Kind of Heaven YASHASWINI RAGHUNANDAN, director, That Cloud Never Left ELOÍSA SOLAAS, director, The Faculties

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PRISM PRISM is a new initiative spotlighting 15 U.S.-based filmmakers from underrepresented communities who are evolving the language of creative nonfiction. PRISM brings together emerging artists with leading curators, practitioners, and thinkers for two days of artist-led convenings that are designed to disrupt the power imbalances of traditional funding pitch sessions and make space for more collaborative and equitable exchanges of information and resources. Centering the voices of these artists, PRISM focuses on craft, conceptual frameworks, and connection. Along with a critic-in-residence, the 15 selected artists have the opportunity to present material from their current projects in development, discuss their ambitions, and share creative challenges and solutions. Select PRISM program projects will take place throughout the Fest and can . be found in the Films and Synapses sections of this program, denoted by

2020 ARTISTS DAVID SAEHOON “D.S.” CHUN and MUSTAFA RONY ZENO Solís, Hielo y Sol follows Jair Solís, a jovial, hard-working father and longtime Los Angeles resident, as he reassembles his life after being detained by ICE. ILANA COLEMAN The Inventory weaves the stories of families searching for their forcibly disappeared loved ones in Mexico, with a scripted committee of linguists who, through updating the dictionary, reveal the ways in which language is used to inflict institutional violence. JAZMIN JONES Seeking Beacon poses critical questions as it looks at how one of the most influential black women in technology is a figment of our collective imagination. ADAM KHALIL, ZACK KHALIL, and JACKSON POLYS Never Settle is a multipart project that includes a feature film, public recruitment campaign, and a participatory installation that invites prospective recruits to undergo an initiation. JESSICA KINGDON Untitled PRC Project is a portrait of China’s industrial supply chain through its accelerated economy in an increasingly consumerdriven yet repressive society. ZAC MANUEL Anonymous (working title) explores black masculinity through black men and boys’ relationship to physical touch. PENG ZUQIANG Inauguration interweaves the forgetting of an assassination attempt by the Young China Association in 1910 and the forgotten journey of two Chinese Cubans who came to the U.S. for its inauguration. NAIMA RAMOS-CHAPMAN Celeste is an assemblage of documentary, narrative, and impressionist film using dance, archival footage, and text to tell an autobiographical story about a woman who falls for a sex worker she meets in a Miami bar. RAJEE SAMARASINGHE Collaboratively developed and enacted by impacted Tamil locals, Your Touch Makes Others Invisible infuses allegorical magic realism into an investigation of missing persons within a small community in Jaffna. 117

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Learn NORBERT SHIEH Preserves is an observational documentary following the characters who cultivate Taiwanese pickled mustard greens (suan cai) to illuminate the deep connections between food, place, and culture. BRITTANY SHYNE Seeds is a portrait of a centennial African American farm in Thomasville, Georgia. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land. STEPHANIE WANG-BREAL Florence from Ohio is a genre-twisting comedy that explores the life of Florence Wang, a Chinese woman who immigrated to Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1970s from Taipei, Taiwan, and the pockets of existence she created to transcend her immigrant housewife status to become a local celebrity chef and “Mrs. Mahoning County.”

2020 WORKSHOP ARTISTS LYRIC C. CABRAL (The Rashomon Effect), ELISSA BLOUNT MOORHEAD & BRADFORD YOUNG (Back and Song), KEVIN B. LEE (Bottled Songs)

2020 ARTS INDUSTRY GINA BASSO (SFMoMA), MERCEDES COOPER (ARRAY), MARQUITA FLOWERS (Shoot the Lobster), LEAH GIBLIN (Cinereach), KYLA MCMILLAN (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise), MAIDA LYNN (Genuine Article Pictures), MONIKA NAVARRO (Firelight Media), ADAM PIRON (LACMA), LENDL TELLINGTON (BlackStar Film Festival), CHI-HUI YANG (Ford Foundation)

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The 2019 Rough Cut Retreat

ROUGH CUT RETREAT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CATAPULT FILM FUND & THE CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT

At the height of summer, when filmmakers are neck-deep in the editing process, the Rough Cut Retreat offers a one-of-a-kind mentorship experience. Launched in 2016, the Rough Cut Retreat unites nonfiction filmmakers and mentors in a creative, supportive, and engaged atmosphere. The Rough Cut Retreat offers filmmakers and their projects thoughtful feedback to help move films from a rough cut to a final cut with an eye on winter festival deadlines. For more information, visit roughcutretreat.org. The retreat offers a deep-dive focus group for filmmakers to diagnose what is and isn’t working in their films. After months in an edit suite, filmmakers often lose perspective; this is a key moment for fresh eyes in a safe space. When selecting projects, True/False and Catapult prioritize work that displays an ambitious, idiosyncratic approach to nonfiction storytelling. Chosen mentors are professionals who embody creativity and generosity of spirit.

THE 2019 INVITED PROJECTS were Feels Good Man (dir. Arthur Jones), Mayor (dir. David Osit), Socks on Fire (dir. Bo McGuire), Unapologetic (dir. Ashley O’Shay), and What We Leave Behind (dir. Iliana Sosa).

THE 2019 SELECTED MENTORS were Bonni Cohen (producer, The Island President [T/F 2012]), Toby Shimin (editor, Buck [T/F 2011]), Jean Tsien (editor, Please Vote For Me (T/F 2008]), and David Teague (editor, Cutie & The Boxer [T/F 2013]). “Building community is essential to the success of any documentary film. We want to offer a new opportunity for filmmakers to come together with experienced mentors to forge new relationships, take advantage of the time and space to absorb feedback, and return rejuvenated to their edit rooms, full of new ideas.” —Catapult co-founder Lisa Kleiner Chanoff 121

EVENTS OUR EVENTS ARE HANDCRAFTED T/F ORIGINALS, each with its own distinct personality. We offer something for everyone to enjoy—a nowvenerable game show that tests your BS detector; a one-of-a-kind anyonecan-join-in parade; a s’mores roast ’round an indoor campfire; at least one once-in-a-lifetime dance party; a zero-dark-thirty breakfast party; and so much more. We pride ourselves on being skilled at throwing an exceptionally good soirée and know that T/F wouldn’t be the same without these pockets of celebration to round out the weekend.

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69 THE JUBILEE Thursday, Mar 5 / 5:30pm-6:45pm / Missouri Theatre We kick off the festivities with a masquerade gala at Missouri Theatre right before diving into Time. Get decked out in your favorite ballgown, bow tie, or CoMo couture—and of course don’t forget your mask. Merriment spills out onto Ninth Street under the Fest’s palatial party pavilion, where you can sample culinary creations from bleu Events. In the Theatre lobby, enjoy scrumptious bites prepared by the students of the Columbia Area Career Center. Our friends at Columbia Art League open their space, where you can see their latest exhibit, The Patrons’ Party, a new fundraising exhibition that features work from their wide range of artists, as well as our VR arcade, Ctrl+Alt+Shift. Sample handcrafted libations created by several of Columbia’s finest bartenders, headlined by our new partner, Bulleit Bourbon, along with vodka and gin from Pinckney Bend, and rum from Tavern Keep. No ticket required; open to Super/ Silver Circle and Lux passholders. Ticket required for film following; admission via the Q for the film only. Presented by Bulleit Bourbon

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70 @CTION PARTY Thursday, Mar 5 / 10pm-1:30am / The Atrium on Tenth What better way to ramp up your Fest weekend than by coming through this legendary dance party? Get lost under the shine and shadows cast by our marvelous artists, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve transformed the recently re-imagined Atrium into a bourbon-fortified dreamland, and move it, move it to the radiant vibes of Hourglass and the eclectic beats of Xavier BLK. No ticket required; open to Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders, Stay Up Late wristbands.

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71 Q(UENCH) & A(NSWERS) A: Rouge / Friday, Mar 6 / 3:25pm-4:10pm / Palmer Room B: Bock / Friday, Mar 6 / 8:15pm-9pm / Palmer Room C: Blanc / Saturday, Mar 7 / 1:25pm-2:05pm / Palmer Room D: Rye / Saturday, Mar 7 / 8:15pm-9pm / Palmer Room A convivial reception spotlighting each short film program with eponymous complimentary beverages. Attendees can ask questions one-on-one and indulge in the titular libations. A True/False programmer will be present at each Q(uench) & A(nswer) to introduce filmmakers and briefly facilitate discussion. Open to ticket-holders of the preceding screening in Gannett as well as Super/Silver Circle passholders.

72 MARCH MARCH Friday, Mar 6 / 5:15pm-6pm / Boone County Courthouse Square to Ninth & Locust What better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to lead by example and march into March? To bring this month in like a lion, we invite one and all to join, dress in costume, ride your bike, whatever youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like (just no advertising, politicking, or motorized vehicles). Led by our own King of Queens, Ron Ironic Ribiat. Free and open to the public.

73 REALITY BITES Friday, Mar 6 / 5:30pm-7pm / Missouri Theatre & The Picturehouse lobbies A tradition as old as the Fest itself, Reality Bites is our communal breaking of bread (and other delectables). Directly following the March March, bring your revelry and your costumes inside the Missouri Theatre, the Columbia Art League, and The Picturehouse to sample tastes from a wide array of Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best restaurants. Enjoy bespoke T/F vintages from Les Bourgeois Vineyards, beer brewed by Logboat and Public House, and cocktails featuring libations from our friends at Bulleit Bourbon and Pinckney Bend. Happy buskers will fill the room(s) with merriment. No ticket required; open to Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders. Ticket required for film following; admission via the Q for the film only. 129

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74 CAMPFIRE STORIES Friday, Mar 6 / 9:30pm-10:45pm / Studio 4 Gather ‘round the firepit as some stellar storytellers spin yarns in our cozy forest clearing. The evening’s spirit guide will be Tonina on upright bass with six filmmakers/fabulists: Elegance Bratton, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Kirsten Johnson, Arthur Jones, Lance Oppenheim, and Yahaswini Raghunandan. Sip Bulleit Frontier Rye Whiskey compliments of Bulleit Bourbon and homemade s’mores courtesy of Simmons Bank. Ticket required; general admission via the Q. Presented by National Geographic Documentary Films

75 SHORT CIRCUIT PARTY

Friday, Mar 6 / 10:30pm-12:30am / Pressed In honor of True/False’s 29 shorts filmmakers, this electric affair celebrates these magic-makers in style. Sing a song for your first round at our karaoke station. Open to Super/Silver Circle passholders.

76 FILMMAKER FÊTE Saturday, Mar 7 / 4pm-6pm / Orr Street Studios The Fête is our banquet to honor visiting filmmakers, hosted by our friends at Orr Street Studios and featuring sweet and savory culinary creations from Fresh Ideas. Enjoy wine and bubbly courtesy of Les Bourgeois Vineyards, beer from Logboat and Public House breweries, and hand-brewed coffee from Kaldi’s, all while gazing upon new work by the artists of Orr Street Studios. Open to Super/ Silver Circle passholders; ticket included in packet. Presented by HBO Documentary Films 131

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77 GIMME TRUTH! Saturday, Mar 7 / 10:15pm-11:45pm / Showtime Documentary Films Theater @ The Blue Note Can you suss out the truth? Or are you gullible? America’s most raucous documentary game show features local nonprofessional filmmakers who attempt to fool seasoned directors by presenting their totally true or totally false two-minute docs. Things get increasingly out of hand. Hosted by Brian Babylon, a Chicago-born comic who moved out to Los Angeles to work on “Why? with Hannibal Buress” and be a frequent guest on the news quiz show “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” The 2020 contestants/judges are: Kirsten Johnson (director of Dick Johnson is Dead), Ursula Liang (director of Down A Dark Stairwell), and Jim LeBrecht (co-director of Crip Camp). Tech support provided by Vidwest + CAT TV. Ticket required; general admission via the Q. Presented by Showtime Documentary Films

78 WEIRD WAKE-UP Sunday, Mar 8 / 9:30am-10:15am / Ragtag Cinema Hand-brewed coffee from Kaldi’s and breakfast burritos courtesy of Uprise Bakery will more than make up for a lost-to-DST hour of sleep! Spring forward into breakfast with a Supa weird film that will wake you right up. Weird Wake-up ticket-holders get the breakfast and film; admission via the Q for the film only. 133

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79 CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION Sunday, Mar 8 / 6pm-7pm / Missouri Theatre A common meal for all who attend Dick Johnson is Dead at Missouri Theatre on Sunday. Closing Night is catered for the 17th year in a row by the stalwarts at Addison’s restaurant, and the drinks flow courtesy of our friends at Logboat, Public House, and Les Bourgeois Vineyards. Ticket required; the film ticket includes the reception. Presented by Addison’s American Grill

80 BUSKERS LAST STAND Sunday, Mar 8 / 9pm-10pm / The Sculpture Yard on Ninth & Missouri Theatre With a tear and a beer (courtesy of Logboat and Public House; please, finish your beer inside), the festival ends as the last air escapes the bellows of the accordion, trumpet, and megaphone. Link arms with your festival friends and join True/False’s own second line under the stars in our Sculpture Yard on Ninth (and for those who prefer a quieter farewell, in the lobby of Missouri Theatre), as we throw an instant wake for T/F 2020 following the Q&A after Dick Johnson is Dead. No ticket required; theater lobby open to passholders and those with a ticket to the closing-night film; Sculpture Yard open to all, weather permitting.

81 TOASTED Monday, Mar 9 / 12:30am-4am / Cafe Berlin Keep the embers of T/F 2020 alive with waffles at Cafe Berlin while filmmakers and film critics fight for their chance to appear on the famed Film Comment podcast, recorded live onstage by the publication’s ever-astute editor, Nicolas Rapold. Open to all. Admission is free; waffles are not. 135

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22 N. Tenth St. Back in the 1890s, this recently restored building housed the Powers House hotel, hosting a plethora of the hoi polloi, fox hunters, and MU coaches. Our friends at bleu Events bring it back to its former glory with weddings, galas, and our very own @CTION Party.

BOONE COUNTY COURTHOUSE SQUARE

E. Walnut St. at N. Eighth St. The iconic columns of the square are all that remain of the second Boone County courthouse, razed in 1909 to make way for the present-day courthouse. The columns align perfectly with the matching limestone columns on Mizzou’s Quad and communicate privately via semaphore.

CAFE BERLIN

220 N. Tenth St. Carved out of a former gas station, the rad Cafe Berlin feeds Columbia’s counterculture. Owner Eli Gay’s expansive singing range echoes the Driftless Area’s dramatic topography.

COLUMBIA ART LEAGUE

207 S. Ninth St. Columbia Art League houses Ctrl+Alt+Shift, our VR arcade, all fest long. It also opens its doors to our Jubilee, Reality Bites, and Closing Night Reception guests to eat and drink while experiencing their latest exhibit, The Patrons’ Party, a new fundraising exhibition that features work from their wide range of artists.

ORR STREET STUDIOS

106 Orr St. The decade-old studios host more than two dozen artists. The one-of-a-kind doors are by sculptor Chris Teeter.

THE PALMER ROOM

401 S. Ninth St. The Palmer Room, located in the heart of the Reynolds Journalism Institute on the University of Missouri campus, is a favorite study spot of many a J-School student and sometimes moonlights as a dynamic arena for debate.

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672 Hitt St. Located in the guts of McKee Gymnasium, the MU Theatre Department’s “black box” space once housed the university’s swimming pool; these days, several theatrical productions are presented each season. 137

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SUPPORT IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2019, a brain trust of our dedicated staffers and board members embarked on a strategic planning journeyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one that led us to a new mission and organizational core values. These values have provided us with another kind of Foresight as they guide our decisions from hiring and budgeting to partnership and curation. As a part of the not-for-profit Ragtag Film Society, True/False relies on the generosity of our donors and their shared commitment to our mission. Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re driven to champion filmmaker sustainability, give back to the subjects of a film, increase the reach of our educational and professional development programs, invest in the long-term health of True/False and Ragtag Cinema, or help with our overall operations, we welcome your participation. Any contribution is a significant one. 139

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MISSION With cinema as a focal point, Ragtag Film Society exists to captivate and engage communities in immersive arts experiences that explore assumptions and elicit shared joy, wonder, and introspection.

CORE VALUES Our core values inform everything we do and are inherent in our opportunities for giving.

INTEGRITY รท INCLUSIVITY รท PLAYFULNESS รท SUSTAINABILITY Donations may be made for general operations or earmarked through the programs described in the following pages. All contributions are taxdeductible to the full extent of the law, and general contributions will be shared equally to support the operations of our programs, unless designated to a particular fund or program. To find out more about how you can support True/False and Ragtag Cinema, including all of the programs mentioned here, please contact:

STACIE POTTINGER Director of Development & Communications 573.819.7270 | stacie@truefalse.org

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TRUE LIFE FUND In 2007, True/False created the True Life Fund, a philanthropic effort that raises money and awareness for the subjects of a new nonfiction film each year. The True Life Fund offers tangible assistance to the real-life subjects of a film and acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories given to us by people who are often of limited means. Support for the True Life Fund comes from outreach within the Columbia community and generous donations from True/False attendees. Donations to the 2020 True Life Fund recipient may be given in person at all screenings of Welcome to Chechnya, online at truelifefund.org, or by texting any amount to 573.818.2151. Additionally, we accept and encourage gifts to support the True Life Fund Program throughout the year; if you are interested in donating after the spring of 2020, contact us about supporting the 2021 True Life Fund.

THE DIANA LISCUM EDUCATION FUND In December 2018, a fundraising goal of $30,000 was set to establish the Diana Liscum Education Fund to benefit the education programs of Ragtag Film Society. A retired Hickman High School English teacher (her former students knew her as Mrs. Rahm), Diana shared hundreds of hours of her time and talent as a volunteer film screener for True/False, and she and her husband were devoted members of Ragtag Cinema. Ragtag Film Society is grateful to honor and uphold Dianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy for generations to come. To donate, visit truefalse.org/support/donate. 141

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RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY LEGACY FUND In 2013, Bill Bondeson and Linda Butterfield Cupp established the Ragtag Film Society Legacy Fund in memory of Willy Wilson, local thespian, high school teacher, dragon designerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and David Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad. The Legacy Fund exists to ensure the long-term health, vitality, and sustainability of Ragtag Cinema and the True/False Film Fest. This fund is designated for planned giving or for substantial recurring gifts to the organization. For information on including RFS in your will or other types of planned giving, please contact Stacie Pottinger.

RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY LEGACY FUND DONORS Dianna and Rodney Adkison Bill Bondeson and Linda Butterfield Cup Diane Booth and Jeanne Sebaugh Ron and Judy Carter D&BJ Family Kathleen Ehrhardt Barbara Fairman Michael and Emy Friedman Bill and Barb Froke Joanne Fulton Barry and Pam Gainor Betsy Garrett Larry Ganong and Marilyn Coleman

Carol Hurt Aaron and Nikki Krawitz Doris Littrell Amy McCombs Ann and David Mehr Richard and Peggy Poe R. Michael and Susan E. Roberts Margie Sable Jerry and Judy Schermer Sally Silvers Tom Smith Charles and Jan Swaney Vicky Riback Wilson Harriet and Bill Yelon

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PAY THE ARTISTS! THE PAY THE ARTISTS! (PTA!) initiative is part of a larger effort to create a sustainable ecosystem for nonfiction filmmakers, who often lose money bringing their work into the world. Festivals increasingly act as a de facto substitute for movie houses; crowdfunding and foundation grants are often not enough to support getting oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film to the viewing public. The PTA! program exists as a partial remedy to this problem. Since 2014, PTA! donors have enabled T/F to award an honorarium to each visiting filmmaking team, in addition to covering all travel, lodging, and meal expenses. When the program began, we set the lofty goal of eventually providing $1,000 per filmmaking team. We are ecstatic that after six years, we have reached that $1,000 goal for the 34 filmmaking teams attending T/F 2020. We pledge to continue to sustain and grow this program in the future. Funds for the PTA! are provided through three-year financial gifts of a minmum of $10,000 per year from patrons who care deeply about the future of nonfiction filmmaking. Half of the funds are given directly to filmmakers, and half are used to support the programming activities of the festival.

2020 PAY THE ARTIST! DONORS John Goldstein and Holly Roberson Peter Kingma and Thom Lambert Ken and Nancy Kranzberg Maida Lynn Jonathan Murray J.A. and H.G Woodruff Jr. Charitable Trust

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THANK YOU TRUE/FALSE SIMPLY WOULDN’T EXIST WITHOUT OUR TRIBE. Eight hundred volunteers devote their precious time and energy, 16 board members donate their varied expertise, 80 members of the CORE team put their lives on hold, and the backbone of Ragtag Film Society, Ragtag Cinema, makes extra space for Fest shenanigans—all in order to transform our vision into reality. Local, regional, and national businesses and organizations lend their financial support, and our generous donors open their pocketbooks to keep the whole thing sustainable. Without a whole lotta love and loyalty, the party wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has. Here’s our attempt to thank all the folks who care enough to say, “Count me in!” 145

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RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are projects of the 501(c)3 not-forprofit organization Ragtag Film Society.

RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY MANAGEMENT JEREMY BROWN: Executive Director BARBIE BANKS: Cinema Director CAMELLIA COSGRAY: Fest Director

T/F CORE ERIKA ADAIR: Art Installations Manager MARK ALEXIOU: Booze Admiral & Pass Master LINDSEY ARRINGTON: Film Programming Fellow & Ringmaster JEANELLE AUGUSTIN: Film Programmer DUNCAN BINDBEUTEL: Production Manager & Art Installations Director CHRIS BOECKMANN: Director of Programming SAMANTHA BOISCLAIR: Financial Coordinator MIKE BOLES: Technical Support & Skypes PAULA CALLIS: Assistant Box Office Manager BRAD CARLSON: Audio & Radio Coordinator JACKIE CASTEEL: Assistant Production Manager BLAIR COLEMAN: Hospitality Coordinator JOHANNA COX: Events Director NICKIE DAVIS: Assistant Merchandise Manager JUSTIN DEAN: DCP Creation & Inspections Manager TONY DEMARCO: Assistant Lighting Director EM DOWNING: Associate Events Coordinator JENNIFER ERICKSON: Mentorship Program Coordinator KELLY FAMULINER: Director of Community Partnerships & Education RAE FITZGERALD: Music Coordinator ALEX FOUNTAIN: Assistant Technical Director KAY FRYMIRE: Ads Coordinator JEFF GABEL: Print Traffic Controller FARIDAH GBADAMOSI: Volunteer Co-Coordinator AMIR GEORGE: Film Programmer JADE GOVERO: Communications Specialist JEREMY GOVERO: Audio Manager SARAH HAAS: Presentation Manager LIZ HAGENS: Film Programming Fellow & PRISM Coordinator KATIE JENKINS: Ctrl+Alt+Shift Curator MARK JOHNSON: Skype Assistant SARAH JOST: Hospitality Assistant MARTIN KAMAU: Music Director KORY KAUFMAN: Special Ops CHRISTINA KELLEY: Merchandise Manager JAMIE KROLL: Construction & Production JON LAMB: Skype Manager 146

Thank You STEPHANIE LEBLANC: Art Installations Assistant JAMIE LEONARD: Lighting Director ARIN LIBERMAN: Chief People Officer & Program Manager LI LIN: Graphic Designer CARLY LOVE: Operations Manager JORDAN LUNDY: Format Inspections & Blu-Ray Creation ASHWINI MANTRALA: Music Coordinator MICHAEL MARCUM: Production Assistant CLINT MCMILLEN: Lead Graphic Designer BRI MERKEL: Technical Director JOLENE METZEN: Shuttle Coordinator ZIA NIZAMI: Photo Team Coordinator JOSH OXENHANDLER: Legal Counsel & Special Operations EYNAR PINEDA: Hospitality Coordinator STACIE POTTINGER: Development & Communications Director STEPHEN QUACKENBUSH: Water Diviner WIL REEVES: Music Coordinator GLENN RICE: Sign Czar, Art Technical Consultant, & Ticket Printing Controller KELSEY RIGHTNOWAR: Assistant Manager of Theater Operations SAM ROTH: Box Office Manager JOSH RUNNELS: Community Partnerships & Education Coordinator MARIE SCHALLER: Special Ops EMMA SCHIERMEIER: Hazardous Materials CHIMENE SCHWACH: Manager of Community Partnerships & Education MATT SMITH: Production Assistant HOLLY SMITH-BERRY: Sponsorship Director DOUG SONNENBERG: Audio Consultant & Production TRISCHA SPLITTER: Volunteer Co-Coordinator BRYNN SZUKALA: Sustainability Coordinator STACEY THOMPSON: Sponsorship Coordinator EMMI WEINER: Sponsorship Coordinator PATRICIA WEISENFELDER: Development & Communications Manager DAVID WILSON: Co-Conspirator & Special Projects ERICA WOODS: DIY Day Coordinator CHELSEA WRIGHT: Video Team Coordinator

RAGTAG CINEMA Ragtag Cinema is T/Fâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister program, a two-screen arthouse theater operating 365 days a year. STEPH FOLEY: Design & Marketing Director GRADY HARRINGTON: Membership Coordinator & Projectionist CORY MCCARTER: Operations Director GLENN RICE: Webmaster TED ROGERS: Programmer STEVE RUFFIN: Technical Director & Projectionist PROJECTIONISTS: Tony Layson, Ben Falby, Emma Fristoe BOX OFFICERS: John Hubbs, Bernie McDonald, Jake Worsham, Emmi Weiner, Liz Hagens 147

Thank You RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY 2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT: Shon Aguero VICE PRESIDENT: Charlie Nilon SECRETARY: Betsy Garrett TREASURER: Michael Lefebvre PAST PRESIDENT: Jeremy Root BOARD MEMBERS: Cat Comley Adams, Brian Booton, Linda Butterfield Cupp, Meichele Foster, Sheri-Marie Harrison, Carol Hurt, Nikki Krawitz, Gary Oxenhandler, Ron Rottinghaus, Karen Touzeau, David Wilson

CONTRIBUTORS T/F would also like to thank the hundreds of individuals who have contributed their time and talents to the success of T/F 2020, including our vast army of Volunteers. Juggernauts, who generously contribute 40+ hours of their time, are noted with an asterisk (*). Ziggurats give 75+ hours of their time, and are noted with (). Special thanks to our 2020 Volunteer Sponsor, Evans & Dixon.

CORE SUPPORT: EXPERTS & INTERNS EVENTS INTERN: Siena DeBolt SUSTAINABILITY INTERN: Mary Diekmeier DEVELOPMENT INTERN: Ronel Ghidey EVENTS INTERN: Bella Hogan SPONSORSHIP RESEARCHER: Kevin McKiernan SPONSORSHIP INTERN: Matt Kirchhoefer THEATER OPS INTERN: Maggie Murin APPRENTICE FABRICATION MANAGER: Mikaela O’Barr

ERRAND RUNNERS Kathy Becker, Jackie Bell, Shelley Botts, Bailey Castleman, Elyse Frazier, Lori Johnson, Kathryn Lucchesi, Peggy O’Connor,* Mike Rowson,* Margaret Waddell, Steven Wu, Jonah Zukosky; Special Thanks to The District for their help with swag bag creation

CANARY SCREENING COMMITTEE Lindsey Arrington, Stephanie Andreou, Molly Bagnall, Christianne Benedict, Burke Bindbeutel, Rebecca Fons, Liz Fornango, Liz Hagens, Leigh Kolb, Jordan Inman, Tristen Ives, Arin Liberman, Antoine Matondo, Paul Morrison, John Muse, Ashley Nagel, Jim Potter, Jeremy Reed, Dana Smith, Dan Steffen, Mindy Stueckel, Stacey Woelfel, and Majiyebo Yacim

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND EDUCATION VOLUNTEERS: Alicia Flavin, Tippie Greene, Billie Huang, Caullen Hudson,* Kelsey Kupferer,* Janna Lancaster, Theo Kurre, Adrienne Luther,* David Moran,* 148

Thank You Mark Powers, Pearl Quick, Ann Schlemper, Lincoln Sheets, Lila Witte, Roman Wolfe,* Steve Woods, Brenda York CAMP TRUE/FALSE COUNSELORS: Tricia Carver-Horner,* Kendra Cowart,* Shawny Green,* Juniper Hill,* Marie McMullan,* Audrey Roloff,* Morganne Yambrovich* EDUCATOR PARTNERS: Leia Brooks, Danny Gammon, Samantha Hayes, Brett Kirkpatrick, Molly Pozel, Ben Schirmer, Greg Simmons, Jordan Smith, Lindsey Troutman, Alex Worman OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE to all the educators from the Columbia Area Career Center and Battle, Douglass, Hickman, and Rock Bridge High Schools ADVISORY COUNCIL: Jimmie Briggs, Kath Connolly, Polina Malikin, Eddie Martinez, Christian Rozier, Kristen Schulte PODCAST: Ryan Famuliner, Sebastiàn Martinez-Valdivia, Janet Saidi

PRESS & MARKETING PRESS & SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT: Tori Foushee Charlie Olsky, Cinetic; Jo Duncan, The Beenders-Walker Group; Megan McConachie & Amy Schneider, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau And cheers to our social media sleuths for keeping their eyes peeled, ears to the ground, and cell phones charged all weekend long: Annabelle Cook, Hope Johnson, Lauren Blue, Olivia Garrison

GAIL SHEN MEMORIAL D’ATELIER T/F POSTER DESIGN: Erik Buckham & Akiko Sterhenberger AD DESIGN MASTER: Liz Oeftering ILLUSTRATIONS: Carla McElroy, Jacky Adelstein, Liz Oeftering PROGRAM COPY EDITOR: Pete Bland Travis Stephens, our printing press hero, and everyone at Modern Litho.

VIDEO TEAM: BUMPER DIRECTOR/ANIMATOR: Chelsea Wright, Tiny Attic Productions BUMPER ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR/ANIMATOR: Steph LeBlanc BUMPER ADDITIONAL ART: Andrew Frazier BUMPER ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN: Mike Danger BUMPER SPECIAL THANKS: Mike McHugh, Haley Myers, Brennan Rose, Josh Wright COMMERCIAL VOICEOVER: Seda Güler COMMERCIAL CINEMATOGRAPHERS/EDITORS: Megan Casady, Liz Jones, Asa Lory, Kevin Mathein, Haley Myers, Aaron Phillips, Matt Schacht, Kamran Sheriff STEPHENS COLLEGE VIDEO DOCUMENATION TEAM: Melissa Lewis, Greta Borgealt, Phoenix Bussey, Madison Crist, Alex Davis, Josie Felker, Brandi King, Marley Lefler, Kayla Mize, Kristi Shumate, Shelby Thompson, Emerson Van Roekel, Jo Zimmermann

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Thank You Hannah Bodenhausen, Amy Enderele, Frank Finley, Liz Jones, McKinleigh Lair, Evan Twitchell, Kim Wade

MUSIC TEAM SHOUT OUT TO OUR VENERABLE VETERAN VOLUNTEERS: Lileana Moore, Noel Spiva, Claire Winegarner, Emily Shaw, Sean Day, Noah McCarty, Elorm Nutakor, Bradee Williams, Sidharth Kutikkad and Delia Rainey.Thank you so much to Victor Topouria, Melody Walkenhorst, Elena Cruz, Gracie Sands, Jennifer Jones, Ally Chapman, Lauren Freiburg, Melody Walkenhorst, Donnie Hanway, Gracie Engel, Molly Nash, Maleigha Michael, Will Styron, Grace Natanawan, Jacqueline Buffington. AND WE SERIOUSLY COULDN’T DO WHAT WE DO WITHOUT ANY OF THESE PEOPLE: Emily Edwards, Ron Rottinghaus, Bill Bellinghausen, and everyone at Uprise Bakery; Abby Sun, that plug out east Reese, Ashley Anstaett, Poses, Dubs, Clint, Lou, Sonny Singh, Stan Chisholm, Ryan Calavano, Chris Alcantar, Em Downing, Donna K., Ben Falby; Walker Claridge and the Broadway Brewery dudes and ladies, Logboat Brewery; Calvary Episcopal Church; BXR; KOPN; KOMU; and KCOU; and of course that guy, Big Dave

ART INSTALLATIONS THANK YOU TO OUR DIVINERS: Gabe Meyer, & Brian Doss; Laura Haynes & her students; and Willy Wilson THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS, ESPECIALLY: Cory Hodapp; Catherine Armbrust; Postal Sign & Express; Say Insurance SPECIAL THANKS TO THE APW: our hearts belong to you. ART VOLUNTEERS: Iuliia Alieva, Michael Barker, Savannah Calhoun, Kristin Nies, Madeleine LeMieux, Mike Denehy, Cynthia Evans, Nicholas Cunningham, Esther “Landslide” Stroh, Stephanie Hanson, Amy George, Kim Dillon, Bethany Ahlersmeyer, Hannah Satterwhite, Shannon Lauer, Tamara Strahan, Gloria Young, Katy Klymus, Laura Pita, Dakota Parkinson, Matthew Dolan, Alexandria Bergman, Janice Morris, Allisen Hunter, Annika Jurczyk, Kim Taylor, Becca Smith, Kyna Byerly

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT ARCADE MANAGER: Andrea Mgebroff TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Jonathan Sessions & Kyle Huebotter DOCENTS: Muriira Mbogori, Kyle Perry, Jeffrey Zide, Lemuel Jones, Heidi Allemann, Karsten Sierra, Dina Adel, Emily Brown, Sierra Wakkure, Gina Becnel, Mariela Vera-Briggs, Shelby Ryan, Tianting Zhang, Abby Daw, Xuan Qi THANKS: Columbia Art League, StoryUp

TRAVEL AND HOSPITALITY Thank you for keeping our ethos of gracious hospitality alive CHAUFFEUR: Dean Asher, Mark Buchheit, Shawn Eaton,* Katherine Feiner, Stephen Lang, Scott Lincoln,* Samuel Luetkemeyer, Randall Quisenberry,* Paul Schlup, Beth Shepard, Amanda Sprochi, Jeanne Van Lengen-Taylor 150

Thank You FILMMAKER LIAISON: Megan Altschul, Sean Brynda, Ruth Ann Burke, Britney Clark, Joe Cross, Avery Esquivel, Faith Fleming,* Taylor Gion, Sophia Grande, hope henderson, Lily Henne, Mike Hodge, Rafi Iasir, Rylie Johnson,* Sarah Jost, Aisha Kareem,* Barb Kuensting, Zhongyang Lyu,* John Messer, Matthew Neff, Jada Page, Megan Poepsel, Marc Rice, Victoria Tsukanova, Alyce Turner, Stacia VanDyne, Emerson Van Roekel*

BOX OFFICE TEAM BOX OFFICE: Stacey Becker, Sarah Berndt, Karen Birk, Donna Brooks, Levi Civjan, Cortney Daniels, Alanta Free, Lisa Fritsche, Veronica Fritz, Vince Geiger, Cindy Gergen, Syd Hemwall, Dawni Henry,* Robyn Kaufman,* Karolyn Kirkwood, Mary Beth Litofsky, Kelsey Morgret, Ryleigh Murray, Joy Rushing, Denise Schehl-Geiger, Lilly Smith, Heather Tearney, and Pam Williams* TECH SUPPORT: Brad Griffith; Nick Brown, Cris Linden, and Delta Systems; Jonathan Sessions & the Gravity crew; Socket

PASSES Thank H.D and the entire staff at the CoMo FedEx Office, (with a special nod to Steve Rager and Cody Thomas) for letting this Pass infiltrate your business when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pass making time. Wear them well, friends.

MERCH TEAM MERCH MANAGERS: Amy Wilder. Katie Elfer, Lydia Merkerson, Brittany Utterback FEATURED ARTISTS: Kirsteen Buchanan, Andi Fink, Cal Gibler, Olivia Guess, Zoe Hawk, Summer Hock, Riley Kerns, Collin Riley, Laura Schembre, Megan Upham. SCARFMAKERS: Lisa Higgins, Kim Hilden, Elsa Kelley-Marcum, Anna Lingo, Eleanor Merkerson, Melody Nashan, Cassandra Rogers, Joan Strutz. MERCH VOLUNTEERS: Corinne Bobrow-Williams, Katrina Donaghy, Lily Drage, Lynn Forbes, Henry Frees, Lauren Freiburg, Becky Gibbs, Meg Gibson, Mae Godwin, Lauren Guerrero, Victoria Heinsohn, Colleen Hollestelle, Emma McNail, Eleanor Merkerson, Kate Murray, Mariah Oke-Thomas, Carl Orazio, John Petralia, Lydia Reed, Carly Ross, Katrina Stone, Joan Strutz-Ozan, Hailey VanRonzelen, Kate Watson SPECIAL THANKS to the folks at Diggit, for making our Merch dreams a reality, & everyone at Sager Braudis, for sharing their beautiful space.

EVENT COORDINATORS ID TEAM: Joelle Fronzaglio, Sabra Mitchell, Killion Hardesty, Samantha Sweet JUBILEE, REALITY BITES, CLOSING NIGHT, BUSKERS LAST STAND: Samantha Jedlow CAMPFIRE STORIES & WEIRD WAKE-UP: Shireen Razavi & Mandy Mooney Q(UENCH) & A(NSWERS): Joelle Fronzaglio @CTION SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, & VOLUNTEER PARTY: Bella Hogan, Siena Debolt SHORT CIRCUIT: David Conkin, Joelle Fronzaglio

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Thank You FILMMAKER HAPPY HOUR, FILMMAKER FETE, & CLOSING NIGHT: Cindy Sheltmire TOASTED: David Conkin EVENT VOLUNTEERS: Nicholas Anderson, Emmanuel Bettencourt, Cole Brendel, Jacqueline Buffington, Al Cox Jr, Mallory Diederich, Lauren Freiburg, Genoveva Gomez Lince, Adil Hamadto, Dawni Henry, Chase Jamieson, Alex Jones, Katie Jovanovic, Baylee Konen, Jessenia Lopez, Maddy Melton, Hallie Miles, Michelle Moberg, Corey Nichols, Aditya Parashar, Jennifer Polacek, Zoe Rich, Aleksandra Rikic, Lisa Schwartz, Ashlee Slack, Andrayez Sorm, Stephanie Southey, Macey Stretch, Cheyanna Weaver, Victor Willis, David Winjum, Olivia Woosley SPECIAL THANKS to The Blue Note security team

GIMME TRUTH! GIMME TRUTH! COORDINATOR: Steve Giesekeâ&#x20AC; TROPHY DESIGN: Michael Marcum & Johnny Naugahyde PROGRAM DESIGN: Steph Foley TECH SUPPORT: Vidwest & CAT-TV EVENT & VENUE SPONSOR: Showtime Documentary Films

LIBATIONS BOOZE ADMIRAL: Mark Alexiou BOOZE CREW: Adam Boisclair, Shay Jasper, Harry Katz, Andrew McEnery, Dave Samorian, Dan Schneiderjohn TEAM BOOZE: Aimee Davenport, Gayle Chang, Ian Chang, Bettina Coggeshall, Mark Coggeshall, Angie Rush, Rob Rush, Marie Kerl, Sarah Kurre, Jeremy Landrey, Kristen Landrey, Joslyn Lewis, Freddie Lomas, Chrissy McCormick, Bob Miller, Cheryl Miller, Clay Minchew, Kelsey Minchew, Cathy Salter, Kit Salter, Becca Stock, Angie Storvick, Esther Stroh, Emily Voss SPONSOR SHOUT OUTS TO: Bulleit Bourbon, Pinckney Bend, Major Brands, Les Bourgeois Winery; Public House Brewing Co., Logboat Brewing Co.,

SUSTAINABILITY GREEN TEAM TEAM LEADS: Mary Diekmeier, Rachel Craig, Chloe Schmidt VOLUNTEERS: Silvia Aguila, Caroline Armstrong, Audrey Berns, Emma Boyle, Rachel Craig, Eamon Crawford, Mary Diekmeier, Eden Fraser, Lauren Freiburg, Haley Gronniger, Desiree Holloway, Sarah Kelley, Kathryn Kidd, Emilia Lee, Joseph Leimer, Kaitlin Lewis, Amelia Llittrell, Lammers Maddison, Kelsey Michno, Olivia Mitchell, Destiny Muller, Kimberlee Nanna, Rachel Penn, Jill Rostine, Chloe Schmidt, Laura Soehngen, Aric Wilson, Kelsey Wu COMPOST: Bluebird Composting SPECIAL THANKS: Sysco for supporting more years of True/False Sustainability

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Thank You John Simon: our heroes at the City of CoMO; On the Level Carpentry & Remodeling: xoxo; Double M Metalworks; The Prep Shop at the Museum of Art and Archaeology; Sound Concepts; A1 Party & Event Rental; Occam’s Hammer; Boone County Lumber; Bright City Lights; and—as always—Michael Bacon

VENUE STALWARTS RAGTAG CINEMA: Steve Ruffin, Cory McCarter THE BLUE NOTE & ROSE MUSIC HALL: Matt Gerding, Scott Leslie, Mike Nolan, Trent Rudder, Pat Kay, Melina Loggnia, Melissa Reach MISSOURI THEATRE & JESSE HALL: Gary Ward, Jeff Brown, Josh Reid, Chris Cullen, Evan Gentzler, Eddy Bickford, Mary Maxwell FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: Marvin Lindsay, Betsy Garrett, Preston Turley, Nancy Foote, Tony Hayes GANNETT HALL: Lynda Kraxberger, Kara Lehenbauer TIGER HOTEL: Glyn Laverick, Carmen Kindling MISSOURI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Adriene Floyd, Robert Floyd, Teressa Gilbreth, Charity Goodwin, Jo Lee, Fred Leist THE ATRIUM ON 10TH: Shanda Carpenter, Travis Tucker, Nathan Todd COLUMBIA ART LEAGUE: Kelsey Hammond, Karen Shortt-Stout ORR STREET STUDIOS: Mallory Donahue, Jenn Wiggs EASTSIDE TAVERN: Sal Nuccio CAFE BERLIN: Eli Gay, Dan Bugnitz HITT RECORDS: Kyle Cook, Taylor Bacon STUDIO 4: Heather Carver, Joseph Lass VOLUNTEER HQ AKA “THE NEST”: Nick Peckham ARTIST LOUNGE: Travis McGee EXTRA FALSE: John & Tanner Ott T/F HQ OFFICE PALACE: Jeff Rioux & Lori Thweatt for putting up with late nights & loud debates T/F BOX OFFICE/SAGER BRAUDIS GALLERY: Joel Sager, Scott Braudis, Jonny Pez, Hannah Reeves, Rachel Trout PARTY PALACE: extra special thanks to Jessica Hudson & Gina Rende

SPECIAL OPS Ben White, Katelyn Green, Rob Nix, Anna Temple, Woodrow Petrovic, Victor Munsen, Mai Cao, Dylan Akins, Grace Martinez, Rebecca Meisenbach, Haley Myers, Mallory Daily, Caroline Painter, Bill Kalinkos, Donna DeLong, Kayla Kemp, Scott Joffe, Kate Davenport Graham, Darin Tuck, Anna Sirianni

VOLUNTEER HQ “NEST KEEPERS” Kim Ashcraft, Michael Baker, Megan Cates, Kira Garvin, Adam Healy, Lisa Joffe, Kaneshya Lucas, Lynn Malley, Maya Martin, Emily Piontek, Dianna Rains, Ginny Steiger

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Thank You SHOWTIME THEATRE @ The Blue Note: Ben Stewart THE PICTUREHOUSE: Emily Tracy-Smith GANNETT HALL: Eileen Level THE GLOBE: Orevia Vongsa FORREST THEATER: Jeremy Howard RAGTAG CINEMA: Seth Lanning CAMPFIRE STORIES: Kate Lemberg

ASSISTANT VENUE CAPTAINS JESSE: Josh Beck, Lauren Livesay, Natalie Wells, Brian York MISSOURI THEATRE: Dan Fritz, Bethany Kosmiski, Angie Stuart, Ashlyn West THE PICTUREHOUSE: Julie Geyer, Sara Haslag GANNETT HALL: Raven Birk, Risa Perkins THE GLOBE: Tom Boersig, Sean Duan FORREST THEATER: Dakota Hommes, Sara Nelson RAGTAG CINEMA: Morgan Buscher, Bernie McDonald, Lindsay Morrision, Betty Tweedy

STAGE MANAGERS JESSE: Sam D’Agostino, Bill Oakley MISSOURI THEATRE: Kevin Bowman, Morgan Williams SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY FILMS THEATRE @ THE BLUE NOTE: Hannah McClure, Amy Moum THE PICTUREHOUSE: Esther Ellis, Brad Roby GANNETT HALL: Tom Bellos, Marissa Soumokil THE GLOBE: Sapna Khatri, Tavair Tapp FORREST THEATER: Alexander Childers, Jasper Chivington

QUEENS PARADE MARSHAL & KING OF QUEENS: Ron Ribiat QUEEN OF QUEENS: Robin Morrison QUEENS: Rachael Beaumont, Jeff Belden, Kristina Bradley,* Abbie Brown,* Christian Cmehil-Warn, Kelsey Forqueran,* Joshua Hulen,* Beth Hunter,* Rochara Knight, Armaja LaRue-Hill, Savannah Light, Carolyn Magnuson,* Eleanor McCrary, Emily Morrison,* Anne Orazio, Barbara Ramsbottom, Tawnya Rivers,* Chi Roberts, Kate Spencer, Isabella Spencer, Anna Stewart, Jessica Travlos*

RINGLEADERS Miriam Bale, Kamau Bilal, Sarah-Tai Black, Lyric C. Cabral, Julian Carrington, Dessane Lopez Cassell, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Jon Sesrie Goff, Allison Glenn, Martine Granby, Robert Greene, Alana Hauser, Roseli Ilano, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Darol Kae, David Magdael, Lydia Ogwang, Sierra Pettengill, Bilal Qureshi, Jason Silverman, Brett Story, Paul Sturtz, Nicole Tsien, Chloë Walter-Wallace, Steve Witzig, Stacey Woelfel

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Thank You TECH VIDEO ENGINEERS: James Bond, Brian Hupke, Travis Bird, Joaquin de la Puente, Justin Dennis PROJECTIONISTS: Brandon Theige,* Brian Denny,* Brian Morataya,* Chris Bredenberg,* Emma Fristoe,* Grady Harrington,* James Faller, Maureen Wheeler,* Ryan Smith,* SanChavis Torns,* Steve Ruffin,* Tony Layson, Zaida Soussi* AUDIO TECHS: Adam Morrison,* Allison Wilson,* Andreas Sherman, Carl Banks,* Dylan Martin,* Ethan Ryan, Evan Spaulding,* Joe Mitchell,* Joy Kaplan,* Kent Welch, Mike Hokenson, Mitch Tucker,* Parker Smith,* Pillip Evans,* Ryan Lupardus,* Tom Nordberg* TECHNICAL CONSULTANT: Chris Howe

SETUP/BREAKDOWN CREW CHIEFS: Auben Galloway,* DJ Burton,* Fergus Moore, Jeff Barrow, John Nichols, Marie Kerl,* Marley Magner,* Martin Wills,* Matt Schacht,* Vernon White,* Virginia Trauth,* Roger Meissen, Chelsey Rees SUBD VOLUNTEERS: Michael Bushmann, Megan Cates, Vivi Chen, Cameron Cowgill, John Crane*, Mike Currier, Luke Eagan, Jake Edgat, Kat Erdel, Tommy Fieser, Sammy Fieser, Warren Flinn, James Franklin, Lee Ann Garrison, Andrea Gerke, Christopher Gubbels, art jeffrey, isaac kang, Jane McElroy, Carrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Bleness, Julie Pautler, Holley Pering, Tyler Price, Ben Reid, Margaret Robbins, Manuel Rocha, Drew Scheneman, Alexandra Schumann, Holly Sher,* Lynnya Simmons, Gretta Triplett

PRESENTATION Kelley Bell, Peter Kouba, Karen Lowry

BOXTOPS Madison Bellamy, Linda Brown, Brenna Catlettstout, Marc Chauvin, Jessica Gardner, Christina Hedlund, Tina Hissong, Ebenezer Michael, Patricia Norton, Alyssa Otterstetter, April Peterson-Ramey,* Elizabeth Pruitt, Claire Shroba, Trischa Splitter, Joe Strnad, Michaela Thomson, Willa Zwingle

THEATER OPS Joseph Ahrends, Hannah Barnes, Jay Barton, Debi Barton, Allee Barton, Jack Baugher, Hannah Bodenhausen, Catherine Bohnert, Nora Bott, Taresa Bott,* Margaret Brooks, Taylor Brown, Ruth Bryan, Anna Bryant,* Sarah Carlton, Ellie Carver-Horner, Olivia Childs, Prince Chingarande, Lana Coggeshall, Skylar Corby, Rachel Craig,* Leela Cullity, Hope Daugherty, Michael DiBenedetto, Kylie Dokken, Adele Du, Erin Ehlers, Jay Encina, Eva Ewing, Gabrielle Faletto, Joel Feldmann, Caroline Fellows, Cassie Ferrick, Sidne Fonville, Christie French, Veronica Fritz, Edward Frumkin, sheyla Fuentes, Maggie Garrighan, Kaitlyn Garrison, Kira Garvin, Jaiden Gatchalian, Maddy Gomez,* Natalie Gray, Joanna Griffith, Puja Halder, Michael Hall, Kanchan Hans, Emma Hardy, Danielle Hardy, Madeleine Harres, Michelle Hayes, 155

Thank You Maximilian Hessler, Aubrey Hildebrand, Aaron Hodges, Ana Hosomi, Reyna Houston, Jillian Jackson, Amos Jaimes,* Hyeji Jeong, Sein Jo, Savana Johnson, Thomas Jurczyk, Aubri Kaiser, Morgan Keller, Cheryl Kelley, Lydia Kelly, Suyeon Kim, Inhwa Kim, Jessica Kittle, Sarah Klein, Rebekah Komer, Jeffrey Kuhn, Mariana Labbate, Gillian Lancaster, Kaitlyn Landers, Chaewon Lee, Jillian Leiby, beeler lile, Gail Ludwig, Joseph Lurie, Rachel Maedeker, Allie Magoulas, Marlene Mannella, Jennifer Manning, Monique Mendoza, Regan Mertz, Natalie Meyer, Kevin Meyer, Allyson Minor, Laura Mitchell, Kimberly Moore, Daniel Moore, Alex Moore, Ellisa Morris, Olivia Moses, Sadia Moumita, Kyle Murray, Suzie Nahach, Emma Neel, Lindsey Nieuwenhuizen, Elizabeth Okosun, Sabrina Ollis, Angelica Olmeda, Nick Parker, Isaac Pasley, Amanda Pavetto, Leslie Pitchford, Emmett Pottinger, Cathy Price, Brigitte Pruess, Julie Rains, Sofia Ramirez, Haley Reinhardt, Daniella Ricciardi, Ean Rice, Ricki Richards, Julia Schaller, Alexandra Schumann, Alexandra Schumann, Caryn Scoville, Joan Seidel-Petralia, Elaine Sello, Zoe Shedd, Holly Sher,* Caroline Shey, Beth Shoyer, Hannah Simon,Joan Smith, Alexus Southworth, Athena Stephens, Suzanne Stilwell, Emma Tanner, Aubrey Thompson, Elizabeth Ustinov, Claire Van Doren, Aaron VonBargen, Sofia Voss, Rebecca Wasche, John White, Alicia Whittaker, Nicole Wieschhaus, Kylie Williams, Owen Wilson, Payton Woodruff, Jamie Wyble, Sohyeon Yun, Alex Zurawik

EARLY ADOPTERS Marie Nau Hunter, Richard King, Holly Roberson, Ron Rottinghaus, Lorah Steiner, Cindy Sheltmire

LIFE, LOVE AND MENTAL STABILITY Erin, Ben, Molly, & Hudson; Marc, Harry, & granny, HHH fam, the Moshiros; Beth & team RTF; as well as the families and loved ones of all T/F Core. Eternal gratitude to our co-conspirators, Paul Sturtz and David Wilson, without whose foresight this crazy thing called True/False would not exist.

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