Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival

2010 Philosophy Film Festival Winners Announced

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The Cinema of Philosophy was on display October 7th at the Plaza Theatre and the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is proud to announce the Audience Choice and Directors Choice Awards for 2010.

Afghan (Canada), directed by Pardis Parker won the Audience Choice Award.

Hendrik Is Sick (Belgium), directed by Koen De Jonge, won the Directors Choice Award.

Congrats to the award winning films presented at the 2010 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival. We had a really stunning program of films thanks to the hundreds of submissions we received from dozens of countries!

Come be part of the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival, the hardest thinking No-Fee Festival in the business, and send us your feature film and short film submissions for our 3rd annual 2011 edition. Visit us @ www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org

Peace!

Announcing the 2010 Cinema of Philosophy

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The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is excited to announce the following incredible philosophical films at the 2010 festival.

Ergo dir. Geza M. Toth
Afghan dir. Pardis Parker
Lunch dir. Mark Herzig
The Story of David Leonard Sutton dir. Alfonso Díaz
Hendrik Is Sick dir. Koen De Jonge
My Sascha dir. Markus Kaatsch
Homeland dir. Juan de Dios Marfil
Kain dir. Kristof Hoornaert
Ain't I A Woman? dir. Brad Michael Sanders
Stax dir. Andrew Makadsi
Apographi dir. Vangelis Kalambakas

The festival will take place at the Plaza Theatre on October 7th, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.

Admission is free. Cinema is bold.

2009 APFF Screens West at Everett Community College

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"Announcing another opportunity to think about questions of fundamental importance while watching entertaining and creative films!"

The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is excited to present their inaugural complete program of 14 short films at Everett Community College in Washington State for one night only, Tuesday, March 2nd from 6-8 PM.

Admission is free (just the way we like it!).

The program is being organized by Mike VanQuickenborne, Philosophy Instructor and Director of Philosophy in the Dark.

For general information, visit the website for the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival or for specific event information you can call 425.388.9385.

Public Debate and Film

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Is film a viable arena for public debate?...

As we head to Oscars, which of these films truly impacted public discourse about our fears and curiosities? Which of these nominated films will spark discussion now or in the future about the world we live in? Film is such an unbelievable language to communicate, but is it a two-way communication? Are we giving as well as receiving?

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 2010 ATLANTA PHILOSOPHY FILM FESTIVAL

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The doors are about to open on another great year for the Philosophy Film.

Submit your movie to the 2nd Annual Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival.

If there is a philosophy that guides your filmmaking. If an idea more complex than the tools of contemplation or discussion or even prose could handle has taken root in your life; an idea bold enough to have driven you to the film median as a last means of expression, a final vehicle for exploration- then THIS is the festival for you! Here, ideas are King, dreams are our court, and possibilities are the knights that protect us from mundanity.

For filmmakers, there are NO ENTRY FEES!

The Earlybird Deadline is June 1st, 2010!

For the complete guidelines or to download an entry form, visit our submissions page.

The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is dedicated to philosophy films that exemplify the pursuit of knowledge through the moving image. Films that guide us through the questions and speak to the human condition. Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light, shadow, and sound. This year we are accepting short film and feature films in all genres and categories from professional and student filmmakers from around the world.

DIRECTORS CHOICE AWARD announced...

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After much deliberation, we have decided that the Directors Choice Award will be given to "In the Fall of Gravity," a unique animated philosophy film directed by Ron S. Cole of the United States. You can see video clips and production stills, read the directors statement, and learn about the making of the film at the Directors blog.

For more information about the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival and the 2009 program, visit the archives at our website.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD announced...

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Last night's 2009 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival was a true success.

We far exceeded our expectations for our little philosophy film festival in terms of the amount of people who attended and the positive reaction we garnered. We greatly appreciate the many, many people that lined up inside (and outside!) the Plaza Theatre and waited expectantly for our unique and intriguing program of Philosophy Films. No person is pleased by everything, but we believe we offered a program of films that was diverse enough to offer everyone something to be pleased about.

The overwhelming favorite and winner of the Audience Choice Award goes to the brilliant film, "Monsieur Cok," directed by Franck Dion of France. It is no surprise that this award winning animation was highly regarded by students, lovers, and enthusiasts of both film and philosophy.

The recognition is well deserved.

Following below are several pictures of the event:

Stay tuned for the announcement of the Directors Choice Award for the 2009 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival.

2009-10-05T20:17:00.000-07:00

The Creative Loafing is featuring our free event in their See & Do Editor's Pick section of the online publication.

Also, we have a trailer featuring a handful of exceptional entries for the 2009 philosophy festival, some of which will be seen this Thursday night at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta. Showtime starts at 9:30pm.

We also would like to welcome members of the Atlanta Philosophy Meetup to our festival as well.

2009 Program Announced

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The 2009 Film Program Announced::

City of Lights / Teun van der Zalm / 5 min
Sorry To Bother You / Nuria Gil Lopez / 6 min
In the Fall of Gravity / Ronald S. Cole / 11min
The Gynaecologist / Alfonso Camarero / 10min
Milk Run / Julian Grant / 3min
Zuurstof (Oxygen) / Jet Andree / 9min
Harmonica / Leevi Lehtinen / 6min
Small Talk / Bruno Vaks / 9min
How They Dance / Jesper Ravn / 5min
The Opening Ceremony / Men-Hoi Wong / 12min
Another Lost Soul / Lyle Pisio / 4 min
The Storymaker / Emma Rozanski / 12min
Monsieur Cok / Franck Dion / 10min
The Secret Lives Of Robots / Michael Peterson / 7min

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2009

Show starts at 9:30 PM

@ THE PLAZA THEATRE
1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue
Atlanta Georgia 30306

Save paper and download a program at www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org

Note From A Filmmaker

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This is a note passed onto us by a young filmmaker who came across our film festival website:

"I am very happy to have found your festival. As far as my research went, you're the only film festival that focuses on life's greatest questions, which i think very few people dwell on. Also, i read in your page "the 1st edition", i hope that this festival will be a success and will continue years from now so as to create a community of filmmakers who stimulate minds and educate people."

We look forward to doing just that...

www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org

Quote to Strike the Mood

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I'd been looking for a quote that would embody the Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival, but I wanted to find it organically- you know, by the act of reading (not googling "great quote that will make everybody think I'm brilliant). As luck would have it, Ralph Ellison scripted a beautiful passage very early on in his work, "Juneteenth." I believe this passage really captures much of what I look for in the cinema, or any art form, and indeed in a great philosophical film. It goes...

Man is born to act, to make mistakes, and to die. This all men know. But in the graceful acceptance of his fate, and in his protracted and creative dying, man builds his monument, he structures and makes manifest his accusation of the universe. He secures his earthly gains, sets the course of the ever-receding future and makes art of his yearning.

Thank you Mr. Ellison, I do believe I am ready to throw a Philosophy Film Festival now.

Call For Entries - April 1st Deadline

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No Entry Fees for Earlybird Deadline: April 1st, 2009!

Submit Now!

The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is dedicated to philosophy films that exemplify the pursuit of knowledge through the moving image. Films that guide us through the questions and speak to the human condition.

Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light, shadow, and sound.

The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival is currently accepting short film submissions in all genres and categories from professional and student filmmakers from around the world.

To submit your film or video, please see visit www.AtlantaThinkFestival.org

Mission Statement

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Films have been often characterized as being essays on the human condition. In an essay, one should gather insights about the philosophy that guides the questions and attitudes of the work. Films should be no different. Film is Philosophy expressed through the medium of image- realized through light and sound. Presented and structured in such a way as to foster debate in the public and private forum.

The Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival welcomes all those films using the image median to question how we think and how we interact with the world. Films that question what it is to exist. What it is to know. What it is to love. What it means to be ethical and objective. What it is to experience. What it is to…

We welcome films aware of their role as provocateur in a world where answers are more readily available than questions. Films that use dialogue, story, image, style, tone and theme to confront our universal values and confront how we understand our experiences. Films that use ideas as a laboratory to explore the human condition.

In both style and content, we welcome all films that embark on the difficult and rewarding journey towards knowledge and better understanding.

The Cinema of Philosophy

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The Cinema of Philosophy presents the major philosophical questions and ideas to a mass audience though the medium of film and video. Using the Moving Image art form to question our assumptions and rationalizations about what we experience in our everyday lives. Filmmakers aren't moved to create cinema to define reality, but rather to question it.

Probing into even our basic notions of Life, God, and Human Nature inevitably lead to richer, more meaningful understandings of our attitudes, our Philosophies, and our place in the world. In the discipline of cinematography, it is the angle at which you approach your characters and ultimately your story that is as important as anything. Philosophy approaches questions and ideas in ways very few other disciplines can.

The Cinema of Philosophy delves into all that we accept, what we are mystified by, what we are scared of, what we overlook, what we believe in, what we think we know. Philosophy Films exemplify this exploration.

The Cinema of Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Roy Anderson, Francois Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Stan Brackage, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker, Wim Wenders and many others.

Promo Video

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