If you’re looking for engrossing, fact-based films to get caught up in, check out some of the best based-on-a-true-story movies of 2019.

Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. The primary goals are to increase the presence of film in core classrooms, help teachers and students learn to read film as text, and to cultivate and enhance critical thinking skills as teachers and students practice analyzing new media. Participating students get a chance to meet the founders of the festival and meet with directors of the films showing at the festival in a private, personal manner. Since 2007, the True/False Film Fest has also featured the True Life Fund, a fundraising program which goes to demonstrate that documentaries can create change by offering tangible assistance to the real-life subjects of a new non-fiction film each year. Afterward, 200 self-selected students attend interactive artist workshops and join in the anyone-can-join March March parade. Students from Saint Louis, Jefferson City, North Carolina, New Mexico, and more attended the 4 day camp. The program champions the belief that as students catapult into a world of ever-changing media, distribution platforms, and news outlets, the skills to be thoughtful, critical consumers of media must grow. All rights reserved. Meanwhile, the festival landed a number of the most discussed titles that premiered at Sundance last week: “Knock Down the House,” “One Child Nation,” “Apollo 11,” and “American Factory,” “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” “Mike Wallace Is Here,” “Midnight Traveler,” “Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary” and “The Edge of Democracy.”This year’s festival was programmed by Abby Sun, Amir George, Chris Boeckmann, and Paul Sturtz. The 2019 schedule will be announced at 5pm CST Saturday, Feb. 9.Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox Premiere at this year’s True/False.

The fund further acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories provided by people of often limited means. The True/False Film Fest offers a single award. “The Hottest August,” is from director Brett Story (“The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” T/F 2016) and explores the anxieties of a “sweltering” New York City.

The Media Literacy initiative is a year-round program that supports teacher efforts to incorporate more film and multimedia into their classrooms. ©2018 True/False Film Fest Columbia, MO 65201 USA 573-442-TRUE (8783) The True/False name and logo are registered trademarks The festival is sponsored by almost every downtown store, restaurant and bar, and has multiple other events such as a Camp for both local & national high schools, year-long film programs, and more. History. In early 2016, Columbia Public Schools, Ragtag Film Society, and the Columbia Public Schools Foundation announced a new, landmark multi-year partnership that brings together film, the CPS curriculum, and teacher training. The True Life Fund is presented by the Crossing (a Missouri church group) and is supported by the Bertha Foundation. The organizers of the True/False Film Fest, taking place in Columbia, Missouri, on February 28 to March 3, are announcing their lineup exclusively to IndieWire.The 36 feature films … ©2018 True/False Film Fest Columbia, MO 65201 USA 573-442-TRUE (8783) The True/False name and logo are registered trademarks

True/False includes films by local and international filmmakers, with thousands of films being sent in each year for consideration. All Columbia Public Schools participate, as well as 10 out-of-town schools (4 of those, out-of-state). The students watch buskers and a festival film (listed below, by year), and students are encouraged to participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker. Among the 36 new features, four of the films announced are world premieres.

On the Friday morning of the Fest, 10th graders from across all four Columbia public high schools take buses to a True/False venue where their nonfiction cinema & art experience begins! The True Vision Award is given annually to the filmmaker, or filmmakers, whose work shows a dedication to the creative advancement of the art of nonfiction filmmaking. “Midnight in Paris,” the directorial feature debut from Roni Moore and James Blagden, follows the Flint Northern High School’s senior class of 2012 as the Michigan students prepare for prom.

This year is no exception with a special screening of “Finding Frances,” the much discussed series finale to the Comedy Central series “11 films, including Olivier Meyrou’s “Celebration,” about legendary fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, will make the U.S. Camp True/False convenes before the Fest to discuss relevant issues, share research and plot their course.

In 2019, the camp included around 80 high schoolers, including 30 local students and 50 students from nearby and national areas. Brazil-based filmmaker Maíra Bühler will screen “Let it Burn,” described as a tender portrait of addicts housed in a converted hotel in São Paulo’s notorious Cracolândia neighborhood.
The Educational Screenings are a special screening for local high school sophomores as a field trip to watch one film from the festival for free.

Each winner is presented with an original bronze sculpture, created by nationally known Columbia artist Larry Young. And the fourth T/F world premiere is director Jeffrey Peixoto’s exploration into what attracts members to the Church of Scientology in “Over the Rainbow.”Now in its 16th year, the documentary film festival that prides itself on showing films that use and push the form, has been known to screen films that aren’t traditionally categorized as nonfiction (last year “The Rider” and “American Animals”).