**Film(s) looking forward to most at True/False:** “Boyhood”
**Director(s) that most inspires him:** Alejandro Jodorowsky
**How many years he’s been directing:** Since the early 1990s. (This is his first theatrical feature.)

Directed by Frank Pavich, “Jodorowsky’s Dune” is one of the opening films of the True/False Film Fest. The film tells the story of director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who in the 1970s, attempted to create his most ambitious film yet — an adaptation of the science fiction novel, “Dune.”

“He cast the whole film,” Pavich said. “His cast included his own son as the lead (Brontis Jodorowsky), Orson Welles and Salvador Dalí. Pink Floyd was going to do the soundtrack. It was going to be this completely insane movie unlike anything that had ever been done before.”

After two years of working on “Dune,” which Jodorowsky speculates would have ended up being a 12-hour long film, the project collapsed.

Pavich says he was inspired to make a documentary when he learned about the years Jodorowsky spent trying to make “Dune.”

“I’m a big fan of Jodorowsky’s films; they’re totally out of control, and I completely love them,” Pavich said. “When I learned that he was going to do an adaptation of ‘Dune,’ it’s like, that’s so bizarre, how could that possibly be? It’s just so incredible and so amazing. It was just a story that needed to be told.”

Pavich spent three years working on “Jodorowsky’s Dune.” It’s the first theatrical feature he has made, and he says he invested a lot of time, sweat and passion into the film.

“I had my composer, my animator, my editors, my cinematographer,” Pavich said. “I came together with these great people who were dedicated and spent the last three years with me telling the story.”

When he set out to make the documentary, Pavich said he didn’t know what the film was going to be. He found that “Jodorowsky’s Dune” became something more than a story about a movie that was never made.

“It became about this man and about his ambition,” Pavich said. “It became a really inspirational story, which sounds so weird. You would think it’s a story of failure, but he’s so uplifting, and he’s so incredible that even in his mid-80s he can still inspire people.”

“Jodorowsky’s Dune” will play at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Missouri Theatre.