BOATS: Space Coast

BOATS OPENING NIGHT

With Ross McElwee​

Q&A moderated by filmmaker and Murray Center alum Daniel Christian

Legendary documentary director Ross McElwee introduced the world to his first person style with the seminal masterpiece SHERMAN’S MARCH in 1985 and he will be celebrated at True/False as the 2026 True Vision Award Winner with the North American premiere of his new film, the deeply personal and wonderful REMAKE.

But years before his breakthrough and the advent of his signature “cinema of self-discovery,” McElwee made the under-seen and brilliant SPACE COAST, co-directed by Michel Negroponte. The film takes a character-driven look at a down-and-out community near Cape Canaveral, Florida, years after NASA had abandoned them and the space program. As a complex and resonant portrait of three residents in the town, the film showed how nuanced and perceptive McElwee’s filmmaking could be.

Then with the massive success of SHERMAN’S MARCH and the subsequent honing of his personal cinematic language, SPACE COAST got lost and has been seen little since. With the celebration of McElwee’s full career at this year’s True/False, we thought it was the perfect time to resurrect this beautiful film.

The post-screening Q&A will be moderated by Murray Center alum Daniel Christian, who has written extensively about McElwee’s films, including writing and preparing a monograph of his work to accompany this event. Christian is also a filmmaker, whose work (such as his first feature POSSUM TOWN) has been greatly influenced by McElwee.

More information about BOATS programming can be found here.

Please note that FREE tickets for the public will be available at the Ragtag Box Office starting Wednesday, March 4 at 12PM. 

No more than two free tickets will be given to one person.

A free ticket guarantees you a seat until 10 minutes before showtime and not after. If all tickets have been distributed and there are open seats at 10 till, we will start seating the theater from the waiting list (queue). Ticket holders will continue to be admitted at this time if seats are available. This policy allows us to start on time and give the audience a distraction-free experience.