FACES OF DOCUMENTARY: TRUE/FALSE 2008
A few flickers of the long Leap Day weekend that was True/False 2008: in its fifth edition, the Columbia, Missouri-set nonfiction festival began with the traditional grand march through town, led by “punk marching band” Mucca Paaza. Images of swamis and Diane Arbus pictures danced in the streets.
Gregory O’Toole and Rivkah Beth Medow show their jaw-dropping doc Sons of a Gun as a work-in-progress.
Alex Gibney was fresh off his Oscar win for Taxi To The Dark Side.
True/False is great at ferreting out films too good to be overlooked; one of them was the premise-violating whirlwind, Forbidden Lie$, by blunt Aussie director Anna Broinowski, seen at a panel.
The festival calls its advisors-to-filmmakers “swamis”; while donning the golden turban, in memory of Columbia’s own true-false footnote to space-age lounge music Korla Pandit, is optional, Peter Broderick went full swami while taking questions about distribution models.
Ubiquitous festival co-founder David Wilson at the freshly christened Ragtag Cinema…
And Wilson with director James Marsh before closing night’s Man on Wire.
Once more, with feeling, Mucca Pazza.
