Call for Submissions for the first season of the International Freethought Film Festival is now closed. Over 30 filmmakers received the good news that their films have been selected to be screened at the IFFF inaugural event during the weekend of May 13th-15th, 2011 in downtown Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Theatre. Films that best reflected the mission statement of promoting reason, critical thinking and freedom of inquiry were selected. While reason, critical thinking and freedom of inquiry can apply to anything, freethought is a niche that raises questions that some may think unquestionable, and challenge things that may be perceived as unchallengable. The filmmakers, who shared their films, understood that the International Freethought Film Festival champions freedom of expression by providing a platform to present films that raise the ultimate questions of life. What's more important, is that they understood that this platform is especially for films that question that which purports to have definitive answers to those ultimate questions. Even though freethought encompasses a broad range of ideals, a hefty majority of the films we received were about the critical examination of religion or other supernatural claims. It's going to be an interesting weekend with film titles like, The Nature of Existence, Creator of God, (R)evolution, The God Complex, The Evangelist, Godless and The Third Testament! A very, very interesting weekend...

Some of the trailers are already on the IFFF Website:

http://www.freethoughtfilmfest.org/index.php?p=1_41_TRAILERS