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The True/False Podcast

The True/False Film Fest celebrates the complex, surprising and hilarious world we share, and the documentary films that capture it. The True/False podcast dives deep into conversations with filmmakers about their films, and other topics. Presented by KBIA. The show is on hiatus for the 2023 fest, you can listen to our previous episodes here, and follow KBIA.org or listen on air for our coverage of this year's fest.

Latest Episodes
  • It's been a long break, but the True/False Podcast is coming back, and soon! Before the new season starts in earnest on March 17, though, we wanted to…
  • Hi all — as you're probably aware, we are in the midst of a global pandemic. What that means for us at KBIA is all our time is taken up covering what that…
  • In this week’s episode, True/False Programmer Jeanelle Augustin talks with filmmaker Lance Oppenheim about his latest documentary, “Some Kind of Heaven."…
  • Climate change is an issue so broad and pervasive it is easy to abstract. It looms large over so many aspects of life it can feel less like a subject to…
  • A film can never exactly capture how we experience a moment, or time passing, but it can evoke those sensations through its structure or editing or…
  • On this week's episode, we're previewing some of the films coming to True/False this year, with festival programmers Jeanelle Augustin, Chris Boeckmann…
  • Having your work rejected is part and parcel of being a filmmaker, be it when submitting to festivals, applying for funding, trying to sell a film or get…
  • In the world of nonfiction filmmaking, the idea of "engagement" is often raised as a key part of the process. How does a film engage the audience, or with…
  • The next season of the True/False Podcast doesn't start up for a few more months still, but we thought it was a good time to re-feature an episode from…
  • Bumpers are the short films that play before screenings at festivals. True/False has different bumpers for each day of the festival, each related to that…