True/False Film Festival
True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri. The Fest occurs on the first weekend in March (sometimes beginning in late February), with films being shown from Thursday evening to Sunday night. Films are screened at multiple locations around downtown Columbia, including Ragtag Cinema, Jesse Hall, Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, The Picturehouse, The Blue Note, The Globe, Rhynsburger Theater and the Forrest Theater in the Tiger Hotel.
Location | Columbia, Missouri, United States |
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Hosted by | The Ragtag Film Society |
Festival date | March 5 - 8, 2020 |
Language | English |
Website | www |
True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are programs of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the Ragtag Film Society. Ragtag Film Society seeks to champion independent film and media art and to serve film communities both locally and globally.
History
True/False was started by Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (who also founded the Ragtag Cinema) in February 2004.[1] In 2006, it won the Riverfront Times best film festival.[2] In 2008, the film fest lost 1,200 seats due to the renovation work taking place at the Missouri Theatre. To adjust for the loss, the fest expanded beyond its usual boundaries in order to take advantage of additional screens at Macklanburg Cinema, Windsor Cinema, and The Den on the campus of Stephens College. After the completion of its restoration, the historic Missouri Theatre was once again a featured venue for the 2009 edition of the fest.[3] The True/False Film Fest and Stephens College amicably ended their partnership after the 2011 fest, and Stephens College continues to host the annual Citizen Jane Film Festival every fall.[4]
Growth
The first True/False Film Festival in 2004 sold 4,200 tickets and the fest has since experienced rapid growth, increasing attendance by 25% or more in all but two years through its first decade.[5] Since then, the festival has increased attendance each year with the exception of 2014, which saw a 3% decrease amid a winter snowstorm.[5][6] The latest event in 2017 saw another record high in ticket sales, nearly 3,000 more than 2016.[7][8]
Over the years, the festival has expanded its presentation of other arts, including music and decorative art.[9][10] The event kicks off with a parade, the "March March," and ends with "Buskers Last Stand," in which many of the invited musicians come together for a closing performance. It encourages additional attendee involvement through participatory events like the "True Life 5K run,"[11] and the "Gimme Truth!" game show. The festival has risen from its meager origins to earn recent praise from both the Chicago Tribune[12] and Los Angeles Times.[13]
In 2019, the festival received thousands of submissions and sold over 54,000 tickets, bringing thousands of people to mid-Missouri from around the world. 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.
Education
Media Literacy Initiative
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 Media Literacy initiative is a year-round program that supports teacher efforts to incorporate more film and multimedia into their classrooms.
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. Students deserve the tools to think consciously about the ways their world is presented to them and the ways they present their world. 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.
Camp True/False
Camp True/False brings high school students with varying interests insider access to the fest for a weekend of exciting films, music, art, conversations and workshops with a diverse crew of exceptional guests and local hosts. Camp True/False convenes before the Fest to discuss relevant issues, share research and plot their course. 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. The camp is completely free for the students, who are selected through an application process in November. All Columbia Public Schools participate, as well as 10 out-of-town schools (4 of those, out-of-state). In 2019, the camp included around 80 high schoolers, including 30 local students and 50 students from nearby and national areas. Students from Saint Louis, Jefferson City, North Carolina, New Mexico, and more attended the 4 day camp.
DIY Day
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 students watch buskers and a festival film (listed below, by year), and students are encouraged to participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker. Afterward, 200 self-selected students attend interactive artist workshops and join in the anyone-can-join March March parade.
Educational Screening Films
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.
2019: Amazing Grace, guest Dr. King
2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, dir. Morgan Neville
2017: I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck
2016: The Bad Kids, dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
2015: What Happened Miss Simone?, dir. Liz Garbus
2014: Particle Fever, dir. Mark Levinson
2013: Crash Reel dir. Lucy Walker
Films
Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | 2017 | Steve James | 2017 | 88 min | Feature | |
All Good Things | 2017 | Chloe Domont | 2017 | 26 min | Short | The New Family |
Antonio, Dashing Antonio | 2017 | Ana Maria Gomez | 2017 | 42 min | Short | Edith + Eddie + Antonio |
Balloonfest | 2017 | Nathan Truesdell | 2017 | 6 min | Short | The World Laughs With You |
Best of Luck with the Wall | 2017 | Josh Begley | 2017 | 7 min | Short | Making Good Neighbors |
Brief History of Princess X | 2017 | Gabriel Abrantes | 7 min | Short | ||
Brimstone & Glory | 2017 | Viktor Jakovleski | 2017 | 67 min | Feature | |
Casting JonBenet | 2017 | Kitty Green | 2017 | 80 min | Feature | |
The Challenge | 2017 | Yuri Ancarani | 2016 | 75 min | Feature | |
Commodity City | 2017 | Jessica Kingdon | 2016 | 10 min | Short | |
Communion | 2017 | Anna Zamecka | 2016 | 77 min | Feature | |
Deer Squad: The Movie | 2017 | Pipus Larsen, Kenneth Gug, & Scott J. Ross | 2017 | 5 min | Short | |
Describe What You Heard | 2017 | Joe Callander & Jason Tippet | 2017 | 3 min | Short | |
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | 2017 | Travis Wilkerson | 2017 | 90 min | Feature | |
Dina | 2017 | Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini | 2017 | 102 min | Feature | |
Distant Constellation | 2017 | Shevaun Mizrahi | 2017 | 80 min | Feature | |
The Diver | 2017 | Esteban Arrangoiz | 2015 | 16 min | Short | |
Donkeyote | 2017 | Chico Pereira | 2017 | 86 min | Feature | |
Edith+Eddie | 2017 | Laura Checkoway | 2017 | 30 min | Short | |
Fares | 2017 | Thora Lorentzen | 2016 | 21 min | Short | |
Fish Story | 2017 | Charlie Lyne | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
The Force | 2017 | Peter Nicks | 2017 | 93 min | Feature | |
The Graduation | 2017 | Claire Simon | 2016 | 120 min | Feature | |
The Grown-Ups | 2017 | Maite Alberdi | 2016 | 83 min | Feature | |
Gulîstan, Land of Roses | 2017 | Zaynê Akyol | 2016 | 84 min | Feature | |
Happy Happy Baby | 2017 | Jan Soldat | 2017 | 22 min | Short | |
The Hollow Coin | 2017 | Frank Heath | 2016 | 13 min | Short | |
HyperNormalisation | 2017 | Adam Curtis | 2016 | 187 min | Feature | |
I Am Not Your Negro | 2017 | Raoul Peck | 2016 | 93 min | Feature | |
If Only There Were Peace | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi & Deniz Tortum | 2017 | 30 min | Short | |
Koropa | 2017 | Laura Henno | 2016 | 19 min | Short | |
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 | 2017 | Florent Vassault | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
Long Strange Trip | 2017 | Amir Bar-Lev | 2017 | 259 min | Feature | |
LoveTrue | 2017 | Alma Har'el | 2016 | 82 min | Feature | |
Manifesto | 2017 | Julian Rosefeldt | 2017 | 90 min | Feature | |
Mimi | 2017 | Claire Simon | 2003 | 105 min | Feature | True Vision |
Miss Kiet's Children | 2017 | Petra Lataster-Czisch & Peter Lataster | 2016 | 114 min | Feature | |
My Daughter Nora | 2017 | Jasna Krajinovic | 2016 | 16 min | Short | |
No Man's Land | 2017 | David Byars | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
one of the roughs, a kosmos | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi | 2016 | 21 min | Short | |
Polonaise | 2017 | Agnieszka Elbanowska | 2016 | 16 min | Short | |
Project X | 2017 | Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke | 2016 | 10 min | Short | |
Quest | 2017 | Jonathan Olshefski | 2017 | 105 min | Feature | |
The Rabbit Hunt | 2017 | Patrick Bresnan | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
Railway Sleepers | 2017 | Sompot Chidgasornpongse | 2016 | 102 min | Feature | |
Rat Film | 2017 | Theo Anthony | 2016 | 87 min | Feature | |
Récréations | 2017 | Claire Simon | 1992 | 54 min | Feature | True Vision |
The Road Movie | 2017 | Dmitrii Kalashnikov | 2016 | 72 min | Feature | |
Safari | 2017 | Ulrich Seidl | 2016 | 90 min | Feature | |
Servicing Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family, Subpart A4-2.1-02, Property Inspection Vendor Management and Oversight (11/12/2014) | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi | 2016 | 13 min | Short | |
Step | 2017 | Amanda Lipitz | 2017 | 83 min | Feature | |
Still Tomorrow | 2017 | FAN Jian | 2016 | 88 min | Feature | |
Stranger in Paradise | 2017 | Guido Hendrikx | 2016 | 77 min | Feature | |
Strong Island | 2017 | Yance Ford | 2017 | 107 min | Feature | |
Venus | 2017 | Lea Glob & Mette Carla Albrechtsen | 2016 | 80 min | Feature | |
Whose Streets? | 2017 | Sabaah Folayan | 2016 | 104 min | Feature | |
Adriana's Pact | 2018 | Lissette Orozco | 2017 | 96 min | Feature | |
América | 2018 | Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside | 2018 | 75 min | Feature | |
American Animals | 2018 | Bart Layton | 2018 | 116 min | Feature | |
António e Catarina | 2018 | Cristina Haneș | 2017 | 40 min | Feature | |
Artemio | 2018 | Sandra Luz López Barroso | 2017 | 48 min | Feature | |
The Atomic Soldiers | 2018 | Morgan Knibbe | 2018 | 23 min | Short | |
Baby Brother | 2018 | Kamau Bilal | 2018 | 14 min | Short | |
Bisbee '17 | 2018 | Robert Greene | 2018 | 118 min | Feature | |
Black Mother | 2018 | Khalik Allah | 2018 | 77 min | Feature | |
La Bouche | 2018 | Camilo Restrepo | 2017 | 19 min | Short | |
Caniba | 2018 | Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor | 2017 | 97 min | Feature | |
Combat Obscura | 2018 | Miles Lagoze | 2018 | 67 min | Feature | |
Community Patrol | 2018 | Andrew James | 2018 | 13 min | Short | |
Concussion Protocol | 2018 | Josh Begley | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
Crime + Punishment | 2018 | Stephen Maing | 2018 | 112 min | Feature | |
Dessert-Disaster | 2018 | Alison Nguyen | 2017 | 2 min | Short | |
Disintegration 93-96 | 2018 | Miko Revereza | 2017 | 6 min | Short | |
Duelo | 2018 | Alejandro Alonso | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
Durango | 2018 | Matt Sukkar | 2017 | 14 min | Short | |
The Family | 2018 | Rok Biček | 2017 | 106 min | Feature | |
Flight of a Bullet | 2018 | Beata Bubenec | 2017 | 81 min | Feature | |
La Flor de la Vida | 2018 | Adriana Loeff & Claudia Abend | 2017 | 86 min | Feature | |
Gabriel and the Mountain | 2018 | Fellipe Barbosa | 2017 | 131 min | Feature | |
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | 2018 | Sophie Fiennes | 2017 | 115 min | Feature | |
Graven Image | 2018 | Sierra Pettengill | 2017 | 11 min | Short | |
Hale County This Morning, This Evening | 2018 | RaMell Ross | 2018 | 76 min | Feature | |
John 746 | 2018 | Ana Vijdea | 2017 | 34 min | Short | |
Kinshasa Makambo | 2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | 2018 | 75 min | Feature | |
Las Nubes | 2018 | Juan Pablo González | 2018 | 21 min | Short | |
Liminals | 2018 | Jeremy Shaw | 2017 | 31 min | Short | |
Love Means Zero | 2018 | Jason Kohn | 2018 | 89 min | Feature | |
Lovers of the Night | 2018 | Anna Frances Ewert | 2017 | 57 min | Feature | |
Makala | 2018 | Emmanuel Gras | 2017 | 96 min | Feature | |
The Making and Unmaking of the Earth | 2018 | Jessica Bardsley | 2018 | 17 min | Short | |
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. | 2018 | Steve Loveridge | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
Mini Miss | 2018 | Rachel Daisy Ellis | 2018 | 16 min | Short | |
Mon Amour, Mon Ami | 2018 | Adriano Valerio | 2017 | 16 min | Short | |
National Diploma | 2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | 2014 | 92 min | Feature | True Vision Award Repertory Series |
The Next Guardian | 2018 | Dorottya Zurbó & Arun Bhattarai | 2017 | 74 min | Feature | |
Handsworth Songs | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1986 | 61 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Twilight City | 2018 | Reece Auguiste | 1989 | 53 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Testament | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1988 | 79 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Who Needs a Heart? | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1991 | 78 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Of Fathers and Sons | 2018 | Talal Derki | 2017 | 98 min | Feature | |
Our New President | 2018 | Maxim Pozdorovkin | 2018 | 78 min | Feature | |
Palenque | 2018 | Sebastián Pinzón Silva | 2017 | 25 min | Short | |
Personal Truth | 2018 | Charlie Lyne | 2017 | 18 min | Short | |
The Price of Everything | 2018 | Nathaniel Kahn | 2018 | 98 min | Feature | |
Playing Men | 2018 | Matjaž Ivanišin | 2017 | 61 min | Feature | |
Primas | 2018 | Laura Bari | 2017 | 100 min | Feature | True Life Fund |
Pumpkin Movie | 2018 | Sophy Romvari | 2017 | 10 min | Short | |
Pure Difference | 2018 | Byron Peters | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
The Rider | 2018 | Chloé Zhao | 2017 | 105 min | Feature | |
Self-Portrait: Birth in 47 km | 2018 | ZHANG Mengqi | 2016 | 101 min | Feature | |
SHAKEDOWN | 2018 | Leilah Weinraub | 2018 | 69 min | Feature | |
Shirkers | 2018 | Sandi Tan | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
Taming the Horse | 2018 | GU Tao | 2017 | 129 min | Feature | |
The Task | 2018 | Leigh Ledare | 2017 | 120 min | Feature | |
They Just Come and Go | 2018 | Boris Poljak | 2017 | 20 min | Short | |
The Trader | 2018 | Tamta Gabrichidze | 2017 | 22 min | Short | |
Three Identical Strangers | 2018 | Tim Wardle | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
Voices of the Sea | 2018 | Kim Hopkins | 2018 | 99 min | Feature | |
The Water Slide | 2018 | Nathan Truesdell | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
Westwood | 2018 | Lorna Tucker | 2018 | 83 min | Feature | |
Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville | 2018 | 94 min | Feature | |
Amazing Grace | 2019 | Sydney Pollack | 2018 | 87 min | Feature | |
American Factory | 2019 | Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert | 2019 | 115 min | Feature | |
Apollo 11 | 2019 | Todd Douglas Miller | 2019 | 93 min | Feature | |
Atman | 2019 | Pirjo Honkasalo | 1997 | 76 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Black 14 | 2019 | Darius Clark Monroe | 2018 | 15 min | Short | |
Caballerango | 2019 | Juan Pablo González | 2018 | 60 min | Feature | |
Celebration | 2019 | Olivier Meyrou | 2018 | 73 min | Feature | |
The Changing Same | 2019 | Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster | 2018 | 21 min | Short | |
Chez Jolie Coiffure | 2019 | Rosine Mbakam | 2018 | 70 min | Feature | |
Chinese Portrait | 2019 | WANG Xiaoshuai | 2018 | 79 min | Feature | |
Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 | Mads Brügger | 2019 | 123 min | Feature | |
The Commons | 2019 | Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky | 2019 | 71 min | Feature | |
Crannog | 2018 | Isa Rao | 2018 | 15 min | Short | |
Dark Suns | 2019 | Julien Élie | 2018 | 151 min | Feature | |
The Edge of Democracy | 2019 | Petra Costa | 2019 | 120 min | Feature | |
Djo | 2019 | Laura Henno | 2018 | 12 min | Short | |
Dramatic and Mild | 2019 | Nastia Korkia | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
Due | 2019 | Riccardo Giacconi | 2017 | 17 min | Short | |
every dog has its day | 2019 | Alison Nguyen | 2019 | 6 min | Short | |
Fainting Spells | 2019 | Sky Hopinka | 2018 | 11 min | Short | |
Finding Frances | 2019 | Nathan Fielder | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
The Game | 2019 | Marine de Contes | 2018 | 53 min | Feature | |
Ghosts of Sugar Land | 2019 | Bassam Tariq | 2019 | 21 min | Short | |
Goodbye Thelma | 2019 | Jessica Bardsley | 2019 | 14 min | Short | |
The Grand Bizarre | 2019 | Jodie Mack | 2018 | 61 min | Feature | |
The Harvesters | 2019 | Derek Howard | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
Home, Sweet Home | 2019 | ISE Shinichi | 2018 | 110 min | Feature | |
The Hottest August | 2019 | Brett Story | 2019 | 92 min | Feature | |
I Signed the Petition | 2019 | Mahdi Fleifel | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
Island of the Hungry Ghosts | 2019 | Gabrielle Brady | 2018 | 98 min | Feature | |
Knock Down the House | 2019 | Rachel Lears | 2019 | 85 min | Feature | |
Landless | 2019 | Camila Freitas | 2019 | 110 min | Feature | |
Lasting Marks | 2019 | Charlie Lyne | 2018 | 14 min | Short | |
Let It Burn | 2019 | Maíra Bühler | 2019 | 82 min | Feature | |
The Lost Head and the Bird | 2019 | Sohrab Hura | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
The Magic Life of V | 2019 | Tonislav Hristov | 2019 | 85 min | Feature | |
The Men Behind the Wall | 2019 | Inés Moldavsky | 2018 | 28 min | Short | |
Midnight in Paris | 2019 | Roni Moore & James Blagden | 2019 | 75 min | Feature | |
Midnight Traveler | 2019 | Hassan Fazili | 2019 | 87 min | Feature | |
Mike Wallace is Here | 2019 | Avi Belkin | 2019 | 86 min | Feature | |
Mysterion | 2019 | Pirjo Honkasalo | 1991 | 94 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
Mr. SOUL! | 2019 | Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard | 2018 | 115 min | Feature | |
The Naked Room | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2013 | 70 min | Feature | |
No data plan | 2019 | Miko Revereza | 2019 | 70 min | Feature | |
‘Now something is slowly changing’ | 2019 | mint film office | 2018 | 105 min | Feature | |
One Child Nation | 2019 | Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang | 2019 | 89 min | Feature | |
Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) | 2019 | Carlos Reygadas | 2018 | 173 min | Feature | |
Over the Rainbow | 2019 | Jeffrey Peixoto | 2019 | 71 min | Feature | |
Reason | 2019 | Anand Patwardhan | 2018 | 235 min | Feature | |
Segunda Vez | 2019 | Dora Garcia | 2018 | 94 min | Feature | |
The Tightrope | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2009 | 80 min | Feature | |
Treasure Island | 2019 | Guillaume Brac | 2018 | 97 min | Feature | |
Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary | 2019 | Ben Berman | 2019 | 91 min | Feature | |
Up the Mountain | 2019 | Zhang Yang | 2018 | 126 min | Feature | |
Vesuvius at Home | 2019 | Christin Turner | 2019 | 14 min | Short | |
Vever (for Barbara) | 2019 | Deborah Stratman | 2018 | 12 min | Short | |
Walled/Unwalled | 2019 | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | 2018 | 20 min | Short | |
A Wild Stream | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2018 | 72 min | Feature | True Vision |
True/False includes films by local and international filmmakers, with thousands of films being sent in each year for consideration.
True Vision Award
The True/False Film Fest offers a single award. 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. Each winner is presented with an original bronze sculpture, created by nationally known Columbia artist Larry Young.
Year | Recipient(s) | Film* |
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2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster |
2005 | Stephen Marshall | This Revolution |
2006 | Kirby Dick | Chain Camera |
2007 | Brett Morgen | Nimrod Nation |
2008 | Alex Gibney | Gonzo and Taxi to the Dark Side |
2009 | Kim Longinotto | Rough Aunties |
2010 | Laura Poitras | The Oath |
2011 | James Marsh | Project Nim |
2012 | Victor Kossakovsky | ¡Vivan las Antipodas! |
2013 | Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel | Leviathan |
2014 | Amir Bar-Lev | Happy Valley |
2015 | Adam Curtis | Bitter Lake |
2016 | Mehrdad Oskouei | Starless Dreams |
2017 | Claire Simon | The Graduation |
2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | Kinshasa Makambo |
2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | A Wild Stream |
*The newest film presented by the chosen winner in each year's festival.
True Life Fund
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. The fund further acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories provided by people of often limited means. The True Life Fund is presented by the Crossing (a Missouri church group) and is supported by the Bertha Foundation.
Year | Film | Director(s) | Funds Raised | Supported Cause |
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2007 | We Are Together | Paul Taylor | $8,500 | Purchase school supplies for the Children of Agape singing choir of South Africa.[14] |
2008 | Very Young Girls | David Schisgall | $9,000 | Provide services to girls recovering from the trauma of sexual exploitation, through GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Service). |
2009 | Burma VJ | Anders Østergaard | $9,000 | Purchase equipment for underground journalists in Burma. |
2010 | Enemies of the People | Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin | $10,000 | Help efforts to interview former members of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.[15] |
2011 | The Interrupters | Steve James | $15,000 | Help Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra of the anti-violence group CeaseFire. |
2012 | Bully | Lee Hirsch | $30,000 | Help the five families featured in the film, which were victimized by bullying.[15] |
2013 | Restrepo | Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington | $36,760 | Support RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) and The Milton Margai School for the Blind.[15] |
2014 | Private Violence | Cynthia Hill | $23,000 | Support the work of Deanna Walters, Kit Gruelle, Stacy Cox and Naomi Jean Kilpatrick. |
2015 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | $35,000 | Support Adi Rukun's efforts to open an optometry shop in Indonesia. |
2016 | Sonita | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | $43,000 | Provide assistance for Sonita, an Afghani musician and undocumented Iranian immigrant. |
2017 | Quest | Jonathan Olshefski | $34,750 | Support Christopher and Christine'a Rainey's in-home studio for North Philadelphia neighborhood recording artists. |
2018 | Primas | Laura Bari | $25,000 | Support Rocío and Aldana's future artistic and collegiate endeavors.[16] |
2019 | Midnight Traveler | Hassan Fazili | [To Be Announced] | Help alleviate legal expenses, and support them in setting up their new home |
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