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It might be missing the industry saturated Park City fervor, but the smaller, shorter, and more intimate Columbia, Missouri based True/False Film Festival is the Rolls-Royce (by way of John Deere) of doc focused cinema. Filmmaker Laura Poitras is not alone in stating that her “love for True/False runs deep – from the smart programming, passionate audiences, inspired buskers, and fabulous venues.” Time and time again, selected filmmakers throughout this year’s edition expressed their love of the fest, while plenty of filmmaker personalities from prior editions could be spotted milling around town as casual filmgoers happy to pay to relive the experience.

With a highly curated program just shy of 50 films shown on 9 different screens (each of which are walkable in just 5-10 minutes of one another) over just 4 days, True/False centers its attention on quality and community, both locally and cinematically. For a city with a...

Earlier this week several creditors raised objections to the proposed plan for a quick sale of Thq‘s assets to Clearlake Capital Group on the grounds that the sale would favor the company’s management and staff, rather than focus on paying off as much of the outstanding debt as possible.

On Friday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary F. Walrath sided with the company’s creditors and ruled that the current deal did not allow enough time for other interested buyers to get involved with the process. The Judge therefore rejected Thq‘s plan to obtain additional loans to fund continued operations and proceed with a quick bankruptcy sale.

Judge Walrath told lawyers at the hearing, “I have problems concluding that the pre-petition sale process was fulsome… [Thq] did not even put out to the public that it was for sale [until after buyers signed non-disclosure agreements".

She then added, "I am not convinced that we are...