The True False Film Fest, and chats with the directors of 'Let the Little Light Shine', and 'Sirens'

The True False film fest returns to downtown Columbia this weekend with 33 documentary movies and 20 shorts packed into the weekend. Diana Moxon chats with the Fest's new artistic director, Chloe Trayner, about her first Fest, what she is excited to bring to audiences and how films are chosen. There are 4 world premiere documentaries at the Fest, one of which is 'Let the Little Light Shine' (https://www.lightshinefilm.com/) by Kevin Shaw, which follows the fight put up by parents, educators and students when a high-performing mostly Black elementary school in Chicago was threatened with closure so that it could be transformed into a high school for mostly White and Asian students. Kevin chats with Diana about making the film and the challenge of filming in a school setting. Plus film director and cinematographer Rita Baghdadi talks about 'Sirens' (https://www.sirensdocumentary.com/) an intimate coming-of-age story that follows Lebanon's first and only all-women thrash metal band, Slave to Sirens. Opening and closing music with thanks to guitarist Yasmin Williams (www.YasminWilliamsMusic.com)