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In the college town of Columbia, Missouri, the True/False Film Fest has grown to become one of the world\u2019s premiere showcases of cutting-edge nonfiction filmmaking.\xa0Film Comment\xa0Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold returned to moderate \u201cToasted,\u201d the festival\u2019s late-night wrap-up event in front of a live, very lively audience, abridged for clarity here as a\xa0Film Comment\xa0podcast. Rapold was joined by a superlative crew of critics, programmers, and filmmaking talent including Mara Gourd Mercado, general director of Montreal docfest RIDM; Tayler Montague, freelance critic and programmer; Chris Boeckmann and Abby Sun, programmers at True/False; Rok Bicek, director of\xa0The Family; and Ashley Clark, senior film programmer at BAMcin\xe9matek. The freewheeling discussion kicks off with Bicek discussing\xa0The Family\xa0before it moves on to Zhang Mengqi\u2019s\xa0Self-Portrait: Birth in 47 KM, Reece Auguiste\u2019s\xa0Twilight City\xa0and the Black Audio Film Collective retrospective, Khalik Allah\u2019s\xa0Black Mother, Leilah Weinraub\u2019s\xa0SHAKEDOWN, and many more documentaries.