Promoting Education and an Art

A unique aspect of the FFFF is that it will be reaching out to young film makers to encourage them to use their talent to specifically produce films to promote reason. I want to accomplish this by creating a scholarship fund for awarding outstanding film makers whose work will be screened at the Freethought Film Festival(s). A scholarship award will support the educational endeavors of fledgling freethinkers, and encourage them to express a voice of reason through their art of film making.

FFFF is going to be making calls for film submissions to university film departments when the venue has been secured and a scholarship fund is established. If you know of any philanthropist whose passion is film, send her or him our way. Those who choose to interpret life through natural and scientific means and are wondering what they could do as an individual to help buffer the bombardment of superstitious thinking can make an important impact by contributing to the FFFF Scholarship Fund.

Future producers, directors, scriptwriters, actors and the like, will undoubtedly play a major role in shaping the minds of the next generation; just as the film industry is doing today. Film is a powerful medium for education (and unfortunately misinformation) as well as entertainment, and we need to encourage the creation of films that counter the status quo. The Freethought Film Festival Foundation is a means to realize such encouragement of critical thinking, education and art through film.



Andrea Steele
Chairperson/Executive Director
Freethought Film Festival Foundation
http://www.freethoughtfilmfest.org