True/False 2018

Published: April 17, 2018, 7:50 p.m.

b'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.'