09/11/2026
🎥 Announcing our 2027 T/F Programming Team!
- Amada Torruella (she/they) might be a familiar face to many of you, as this is her fourth time programming for True/False! This year Amada’s role is expanding to curation manager, where she can apply her decade+ years of experience in the field and her invaluable knowledge of T/F to help build the infrastructure that keeps the festival going.
Amada is a Salvadoran artist, filmmaker, producer, and film curator working between El Salvador and the United States. Rooted in collaborative storytelling, Amada’s work explores the relationship between people and home, grief, and cultural dissonance. She cares deeply about memory work as well as centering the experiences of women and Q***r people. Amada’s work has been supported by Chicken & Egg Films, Firelight Media, and Sundance Institute; her films have been screened at BlackStar, New Orleans Film Festival, and Femme Frontera; and her short documentary La Isla was acquired by the New Yorker.
- Murtada Elfadl (he/him) will be joining True/False team for the very first time, yet his incredibly thoughtful writing and love of genre-bending beauties already feels very True/False coded.
Murtada is a culture writer, critic, and film curator who has worked as a programmer for NewFest, DOC NYC, and Porto/Post/Doc. Born and raised in Khartoum in Sudan, and currently residing in New York City by way of London, Murtada’s work about cinema lies at the intersection of documentary and fiction, with an emphasis on the work of filmmakers from the Global Majority and its diaspora. Additionally, he has a keen interest in films that highlight the q***r experience in its many forms. His writing has appeared at Variety, SEEN , The A.V. Club, and the Criterion Channel, among others.
