Attendance at True/False reached 30,600 this year
COLUMBIA — This year, the True/False Film Festival featured more films, more venues, more parties and more movie junkies in a rush for tickets. In the last eight years, the festival has grown from a modest attendance of 4,400 to 30,600 this year. Last year, a total of 25,500 seats were filled during the festival. But, organizers say the vision remains the same. “The focus hasn’t changed,” said …
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Filmmaker shooting movie about Arabs in US claims he’s victim of hate crime in
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A filmmaker shooting a documentary about the treatment of Arabs in the U.S. claims he was attacked and called racial epithets after he wandered uninvited into a house party, and police are treating the case as a hate crime after officers found him with a bloody face.
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Filmmaker shooting movie about Arabs in US claims he’s victim of hate crime in
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A filmmaker shooting a documentary about the treatment of Arabs in the U.S. claims he was attacked and called racial epithets after he wandered uninvited into a house party, and police are treating the case as a hate crime after officers found him with a bloody face.
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Filmmaker: Name ‘Usama’ led to attack
He chronicled war-torn Iraq through the eyes of its citizens, but filmmaker Usama Alshaibi says he didn’t feel the sting of violence until he crashed a house party last weekend in the tiny Iowa town of Fairfield.
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