This weekend Portland, Oregon, is celebrating freethought, critical thinking, atheism and secular humanism by hosting the 2nd annual Portland Humanist Film Festival, the largest freethought film festival on the West Coast.
This Veteran’s Day Weekend the Portland Humanist Film Festival is featuring 17 films dealing with topics like the impact of powerful extremist religious organizations in politics, the separation of church and state, the human quest for meaning, the cultivation of critical thinking, historical drama, and same-sex marriage.
Rod Bradford’s documentary D.M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker, a video produced at the Center for Inquiry, will be recognized at the 2011 Portland Humanist Film Festival. The juried independent film award recognizes cinematic work that helps to advance a culture that values science, reason, humanist values, and freethought. The film will be acknowledged with the Grand Prize for Best Feature Length Film Award on Sunday, November 13, 2011, during the awards ceremony.
The Portland Humanist Film Festival was founded in 2010 and was established to be a provocative and enlightening cultural experience indicative of the rapidly growing Humanist movement in the Pacific Northwest.
Its mission is to provide, through the medium of film, an expansive window into many of the aspects of existence, morality, history, science and philosophy that reflect the Humanist perspective. By presenting a fusion of film genres that affirm the Humanist philosophy, the Portland Humanist Film Festival offers a meaningful dialogue for those who are curious about Humanism and its societal impact.
The Portland Humanist Film Festival is happening at Cinema 21 Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
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