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Marcos Santilli - Director of São Paulo's Museu da Imagem e do Som IT'S ALL 2001 TRUTHS The It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival is getting better and better. It is also being increasingly sought out, more profound, and less truthful. Let me explain. Society, as a whole, is now diluting its truths. The historic axes on which truths were supported are losing their solidity, are acquiring forms that are more diffuse, inclusive and, paradoxically, more sincere. For example, the Bible, the standard of truth for western civilization, in order to hold itself up as "the rule of truth", and for which so many were killed, looted and massacred, is gaining multifaceted interpretations through the new sects, dissidents, liturgies and codes of conduct that no longer match up with what could be considered to be a model for truth. Another example: the revolutionary feminine viewpoint, absent for millenniums from artistic expression, has rolled over the visual arts, the media, and decision making like an avalanche. Likewise, the ideologies, which were the reason for being of the great confrontations of the last century, have become unbearable, due to the lightness of being. The new civilizing parameters question the very term "documentary", exposing its formal origin and the reigning suspicion regarding that old and, formerly unquestionable, standard for consecrating the truth: the notary. In this sense, the truth is presumed, along with an understanding of the universe, as something going through a process of transformation, evolving. It is a permanent and eternal search, a game of hide-and-seek, a fishing trip, with the participation of more and more individuals and tribes, supported by reasoning, sensitivity, and knowledge and expressed through the technology available to their times. Therefore, we have lost "the truth", we have gained 2001 truths, with millions of participants and the wonderful possibility of make movies at home. The Festival, among so many other things, also shows us this. MARCOS SANTILLI Director of São Paulo's Museu da Imagem e do Som