General contact information
True/False Film Festival
P.O. Box 1102
Columbia, MO
65205-1102
phone: (573) 442-TRUE
fax: (573) 499-4884
email: info@truefalse.org
Press inquiries: David Wilson,
david@truefalse.org, (573) 999-1974
Print traffic: Paul Sturtz, paul@truefalse.org, (573) 443-0881
The Inner Core
- HQ calm center: Ann Youmans
- Center midfielder: Justin Arft
- Volunteer coordinators: Ginny Muller, Linda Reeder
- Box office master: Beth Kopine
- Development masters: Paula Elias, Ken Leija of Axiom
- Business manager: Sarah Bantz
- Webmaster: Glenn Rice
- Young master: Robin Griswold
- Submissions coordinator: Kelly Clement
- Shorts programmer: Karen Cirillo
- Print traffic controller: Siue Moffat
- Design master: Chris Canipe
- Prettymakers: Mike Lising, Mary Nguyen
- Techmaster: Mike Boles
- Musicmaster: Kimbot Sherman
- SWAMI coordinator: Jennifer Erickson
- Boozemaster: Barry Hibdon
- Outreach coordinators: Emilie Sabath, Robin Griswold, Mark Johnson, Jeremy Goldmeier
- Passmaster: Mark Alexiou
- Even younger master: Chris Boeckmann
- Program notes contributors: Kelly Clement (KC), Karen Cirillo (KLC), Jason Silverman (JS), Paul Sturtz (PS), David Wilson (DW), Peter Wintonick (for POV) (PW), and all the nameless wordcrafters who contribute via the creative commons. We couldn't have done it without you.
Special Forces
- Head decorators: Ascha Ruffin (Missouri Theatre), Bob Hartzell (Blue Note), Elaine Brodeur (Forrest) Monica Jost (No Quarter)
- Security of the first world: Mary Nguyen, Josh Windle
- Special agent Witzig: Steve, Mandy and Teagan (happy birthday)
- Filmmaker liaisons: Jennifer Erickson, Kerri Yost, Shauna Bittle, Connie Kacprowicz
- SWAMIs: Debbie Zimmerman, Liesl Copland, Janet and John Pierson, Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey
- Presenters: Liz Ogilvie, Thom Powers, Jason Silverman, John Pierson, Janet Pierson, Christian Leahy, Julie Shapiro, Eric Daniel Metzgar
- Gimme Truth submission judges: Amy Barrett, Ella Bourgeois, CAT TV representatives
- Panels coordinator: Holly Voges
- Staff organist: Todd Penderson
- Development assistant: Erika Kubsch
- NY contingent: John Goldstein, Scott Cohen, Heather Roberson, John Vanco, Harris Dew, Katie Trainor, Olivia Wyatt
- Designer chef: Sarah Summers
- Local music mavens: Kevin Walsh, Jason Cafer
- Video support: Boxcar Films av geeks
- Projectionists: Steve Ruffin, Mark Schoneveld, Jon Westhoff, Jordan Lundy, Jeff Overhaug
- Sound guys: Mike Absheer, Wil Reeves, Adam Powers, Brent Maness, Dylan McCord, Adam Powers, Seth Ashley, Chase Thompson, Jonathan Hammons, Ryan Wylie, Samuel D'Agostino
- Auxiliary floaters: Seth Ashley, Jonathan Kelley, Charlie Midkiff, Tyler Powell
- Technical consultants: Dave Bartlett, Daryle Bascom, Adam Mendelson, Catherine Wallis, Chris Howe
- Lighting/set management: Mitch Sawicki, Alexis McNaughton
- Handy guys: Tyler Richardson, Fergus Moore, Michael Stroh, Greg Baka
- Filmmaker benefit coordinator: Esther "Landslide" Stroh
- Musician aides: Taylor Bacon, Duncan Bindbeutal, Ben Cinciosi, Sam D'Agostino, Ruthann Gagnon, Stacia Warren, Bojan Radojcic, Chase Thompson, Billy Schuh, John Grupe, Paul Mossine, Jonathan Hammons
Box Office & House
- House managers:
- Forrest Theater: Frank Finley, Sharon Giles, Diana Long, Kit Salter, Cathy Salter
- Missouri Theatre: Bryce Oates, Jenny Czyzewski, Yngve Digernes, Cassandra Rogers, Kim Dill, Rita Fleischmann
- Blue Note: Alethea Dalton, Jeff Arrigo
- Ragtag: Morgan Smith, Hannah Johnson, Rhitu Chaterjee, Marlene Manella, Leigh Voltmer, Lauren Staebell, Beth Pickens, Jane Lavender, Beth Perrin, Sarah Perry, Dianna Long
- Box office staff: Shireen Razavi, Jami Thornsberry, Mark Walters, Maureen Jenkins, Rachael Ludwig, Afton Greer, Erin Minor, Jackie Kintz, Lisa Walden, Linda Lutz, Rita Bacon, Chris Pappas, Sammy Rager, Brock Boland, Rachel Young, Rachel Schaff, Danielle Chastain
Event Coordinators
- March March: Heidi Bennett
- The No Quarter Party: Tracy Greever-Rice
- Reel Gone Round Up: Janet Marsh, Jessica Anderson
- Reel Gone brunch: Ginny Chadwick, Malavika Ramakari, Isaah Taylor, Angie Hemwall, Rob Hemwall, Jenny Czyzewski
- Reality Bites: Julie Youmans
- Gimme Truth: Adam Mendelson, Catherine Wallis, Connie Kacprowicz, Beth Federici
- Filmmaker Fete: Cindy Sheltmire
- Reel Kids Film Camp: Jill Womack
Design Atelier d' T/F
- Poster artist: Joel Sager
- Gallery curator: Hannah Johnson
- Tree dialogues @ Forrest Theatre: David Dunstedter, Alex Primm
- Metal tree master: Mike Marcum
- Forrest Theatre muse: Bernadette Dryden
- T-shirt design: Helen Hawley
- Squid creators: Bobette Rose, Chris Mezines
- Woodpecker creators: Kay Palmer, Kitty Peer, Michael Peer, Alice Geller
- Decorations: Mary Jane Edele, Karen Truckey, Michael Matthews, Tyler Powell, Laura Idle, Justin Lawson, Danielle Eldred, Catherine Gleason
- Bumper animator ("Rue False"): Greg Sawtell
- Bumper makers: Paula Elias & Ken Leija of Axiom, Kent Durk, Cindy Durk
- Commercial director ("Let Me Tell You the Story of My Life"): Nathan Truesdell
- Bookmark design: Ben Chlapek
- Venue drawings: Carla McElroy
- Teamfoto: Vaughn Wascovich and gang
- Outsourced design: Stephanie Foley, Hannah E. Johnson, Muzzy Zaleski
- Gimme Truth prize: Jennie Williams
- Postcards: Geoff Ellsworth
- No Quarter decorators: Giavanna Accurso, Carmen Giles Meira Willus, Sarah Summers, Isabel Accurso, Augustine Accurso, Ogechi Anyanwu, Jubilee Raymond, Taylor McGraw
Heavy Hitters
- Venue stalwarts:
- Blue Note: Richard King, Pete McDevitt, Dylan McCord
- Missouri Theatre: David White, Lea Evans, Kanani May, Tyler Richardson, Katherine Baldwin, Anne Meysenburg
- Tiger Hotel: John Ott, Kate Alnutt, Myriah Collins
- Ragtag: Sarah Bantz
- Cherry St. Artisan: Jeremy Brown, Luke Daugherty
- Illumia building: Scott Atkins, Pat Wilson
- Nursery mates (Uprise Bakery): Ron Rottinghaus, Courtney, Hunter, Luke
- Hittsville: Bill Bellinghausen, Janet Marsh, Vicky & Willy Wilson, John Goldstein, Alexis Hult, Heather Roberson, Marty Riback, Nola Ruth
- Ragtag board: Holly Roberson, Sarah Riddick, Julie Alexander, Anna Lingo, Harriet Yelon, Nancy West, Nola Ruth, David Wilson
Volunteers
Elisabeth Alkier, Michele Aylward, Taylor Bacon, Amy Bantz, Bruce Beide, Debi Bell, Anne Benjamin, Jennifer Bertram, Mary Blecha, Madi Blumenschein, Jim Borwick, Linda Breedlove, Julie Brinkhoff, Aja Brothers, Emma Brown, Barbara Buffaloe, Ben Cairns, Paula Callis, Kay Callison, Marilyn Camerson, Garret Carol, Jen Chavez, CHOI, Sean Church, Julie and Joe Clipner, Jeff Cobb, Kyle Warren Cook, Laura Cooper, Lauren Cooper, Hayley Craigmile, Amy Darnell, Jamie Davis, Mike Denehy, Carol Denninghoff, Drew Deubner, Ben Dillon, Alex Dos Santos, Kate Dranginis, Ellen Dugger, Jack Eastman, Douglas Edgar, Julie Ellebracht, Tausha Elliott, Shane Epping, Daniel Espinosa, Sydney Falkner, Sam Fatzinger, Meredith Fraser, Derek Ganzenmuller, Christine Gardener, Gene & Pat Gerke, Shawn Gibbons, Carmen Giles, Danny Giles, Jessica Giles, Kit Godfrey, Rachel Grabowski, Emily Grey, John Grupe, Anna Guthrie, Bob Hartzell, Crystal Hartman, Daniel Hecox, Samy Hentschke, Stephanie Herman, Brian Hill, Alison Hodgson, Laurie Hoff, Jenny Hoffman, Emily Holtzclaw, Alisa B. Hoyt, Catherine Hsieh, Carol Hurt, Leigh Jacobson, Jay Johnson, Tyler Jolly, Ying Ying Joyce, Tony Kaos, Beth Kennon, Marie E. Kerl, Sara Kianmehr, Meg Klein-Trull, Molly Klien-Trull, Amanda Kraft, Nathan Kroninger, Catherine Krummey, Olga Kuzmina, Erin Langdon, Mandy Leyen-Witzig, Wenhan Li, Andy Lord, Meredith Lovelace, Chris Mallory, Brent Maness, Alyse Marrone, Juli McAdams, Ashley McDonnell, Alexis McNaughton, Alie McNeil, Taylor Merrels, Anne Meysenburg, Crystal Midkiff, Erin Minor, Ameena Mohammad, Krista Velane Murray, Mike Naughton, Jessica Netzer, Darnett "Dodi" Newsom, John Nies, Drew Owens, Kim Parker, Sean Pfaff, Maddie Poe, Tyler Powell, Adam Powers, Ashley Prewitt, Bojan Radojcic, Shireen Razavi, Glenn Rehn, Sue Reiskamp, Heather Reynolds, Julie Rhoads, Susan Marshall Roberts, Emily Rosen, Katherine Rudstrom, Joy Rushing, Norma Sanchez, Denise Schel-Geiger, Zack Shlachter, Andy Schuette, Jasmine Schwartz, Stan Schwartz, Scout, Maria Scuderi, Barb Seabolt, Taylor Shortal, Divya Sitaraman, Audrey Smith, Amelia Sneden, Pam Spencer, Alex Staelens, Amy Higgins Stambaugh, Nathanael Stanek, Dan Steffen, Ben Stewart, Sara Stogner, Megan Stone, Kara Sydnor, Al Thompson, Katie Tiedemann, Michael Trapp, Rachael Trinklein, Beth Tumiel, Nina Vega-Westhoff, Carrie Wade, Pamela Weisman, Katie Westland, Carly Wilhelm, Christopher Williams, Jennie Hodge Williams, Pat Wilson, Jennifer Wingert, Alyssa Wright, Jonathan Wujcik, Freddie Wyss, Christina Young, Pei Yu, Julia Zarankin
Special Thanks
- Early adopter: Lorah Steiner, Cindy Sheltmire
- Bringin' us all together: Andrea Sporcic, Missouri Film Commission
- NYC publicity: Sarah Cattan
- Good egg: Holly Roberson
- Good vibes: Gabriel Viles
- Renegade retailer: Kevin Walsh
- Saviors: Big Canoe and the Barnraisers
- Guardian angel: Josh "Bub" Gilbert
- Word doctor: Scotty Southwick
And Especially...
Tina Bjerg, Elisabeth Benjamin, Sarah Stone; Show Me Audio and Visual; Page and Brown, Noor Azizan-Gardner, Byron Scott, the Riback/Wilson clan, Zola Sturtz, Ellen Sturtz, Meghan Corlies Grady Gilliss, Ken Nichols, the Uprise "company cafeteria" staff, Fernando Albiac, Kay Kjelland, Marie Nau-Hunter, Ron Newman, the Zombies (Colin Blunstone, Chris White etc.), Roger Miller (My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died), Carla Bruni (Quelqu'un m'a dit), Eugene Hernandez, AJ, Cara Mertes, and these fine Big Brother/Big Sister festivals that have shined the spotlight down the path for us: SLIFF, Sundance, SXSW, Full Frame, Toronto, Tribeca, Miami, Telluride, Silverdocs, Hot Docs, Big Sky, IDFA, Britdocs, CPHDOX, and Louis Bryce.
T/F Busking (and film) festival: The musicians who make it festive
- Baby Gramps: Once described as Kermit the Frog on speed, Gramps is a living, breathing American anthology, reviving roots music with panache
- Bait Shop Boys: Naughty hillbilly music
- Brody: Traveling folk aficionado and storyteller from Oregon, Asheville, and points between
- Citywide Drum Line: The kinetic percussion arm of the Armory
- Colleen Crumbcake: Soultastic yacht rock, Gallic pop and roller skate jams
- Daniel Ludtz: Psychedelic classical gas
- Death and Flowers: Good ole time music, Delta style; the kind you move the furniture back, roll up the carpet and really turn on
- Doc Howard and Friends: Grammy-nominated Little Dixie style fiddlers
- Ellie Come Home: Local orchestral-pop heroes
- Flowers: Donovan & Hank Williams inspired psych-folk
- Little Mama's Burly-Q Revue: Sizzling, subversive & sexy activists
- Mucca Pazza: The astounding 31-piece circus punk marching band from Chicago, Illinois
- Pierpont Experiment: Part play, part film, all-Brazilian dance party
- Pine Hill Haints: Alabama ghost-country music
- Red F: Southern-fried, melodramatic pop from Portland, Maine
- Scream Club: Electro-fem hip hop from Olympia, Washington
- Shirelle C. Limes: Angsty pop firecracker
- Todd Penderson: On the mighty Robert Morgan theater organ
- Total Amateurs Marching Band: Freestyle-punk marchers from straight out of the kitchen
- Water Babies 2nd Street Mondo Londo Band: Electro-Afro beat from Chicago, Illinois
- Wiyos: Vaudevillian ragtime blues, hillbilly swing and old-time country by way of West Virginia and Brooklyn