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True/False Volunteer as Alice in Wonderland

March 6th, 2009 The Missouri Review · No Comments

As one of over 600 volunteers at the True/False Film Fest this past weekend, I witnessed a passionate, diverse, and creative community–from international filmmakers to downtown dwellers–come together, transforming an already eclectic Columbia into a “small-town Midwestern utopia.” My first assignment at The Blue Note, a renovated vaudeville house–now a popular music venue–overlapped with the [...]

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Real-life tragedy as story idea?

March 4th, 2009 The Missouri Review · No Comments

Eric Daniel Metzgar’s Reporter profiles New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof’s work in the Congo. The film, screened last weekend at the True/False Film Fest, concentrated on Kristof’s relentless pursuit to find the face of the Congo. He found that face attached to the 60-pound body of a 41-year-old woman displaced by the warring lords [...]

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