10:00 AM 1:25 PM. 2:40PM 5:40 PM. 8:00 PM. 10:30PM 2011 Atheist Film Festival ‘The Roxie Theater Sunday, August 21 Agora / dit. Alejandro Amendbar /2009 /127 min Followed by Q&A with historian Dr. Richard Carrier [Agora stars Rachel Weise as Hypatia, female mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in 4th century Roman Egypt who investigates the flaws af the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric medel that challenges Surrounded by religious turmoil and social unrest, Hypatia struggles to save the knowledge of classical antiquity from destruction, Max Minghella co-stars as Davus, Hypatia’s slave, and Oscar sac as Hypatis’s student Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, 2011: The Year of the Rapture ~ short films program / 60 min Its the end of the world, and fee fine. Funds ike Harold Camping may have gotten the date of the Rapture wrong (yet again!) but in the meantime, heretics around the world had a banner year. See 2 treasury ofthe best in atheist shorts from across the glabe, JOIN US / dir. Ondi Timoner [2007 / 100 min Followed by Q&A with director Ondi Timoner ‘There are thousands of cuts in America, Thsis the story of one. Award-winning fimmaker Ondi Timoner follows four families as they leave an abusive church in South Carolina and realize they have been in 2 cult. The film documents them as they enter Wellspring, the only acredited, vein cult treatment facility in the world, where they learn the true extent ofthe brainwashing they have all experianced. Eventually they return home ta bring the Pastor and his wife to justice, and to try to begin to rebuild their damaged lives. Nature of Existence / dir. Roger Nygard / 2010 / 94 min Followed by Q&A with director Roger Nygard Firmmaker Roger lygard(Trekkies) came up with 85 of the toughest questions about our purpose and the nature of existence, and then posed them to hundreds of people all over the globe; everyone from Richard Dawkins to 2 24th generation Chinese Taoist Master, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co- discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of URimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orsan Scott Card (Ender's Game), director Ivin Kershner (Star Wears: The Empire Strikes Bact), Modern Druids at Stonehenge, and many more The Ledge / dir. Matthew Chapman /2011 /101 min Followed by Q&A with director Matthew Chapman Onthe rooftop of a city skyscraper, Detective Hollis (Terrence Howard) pleads with Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) nat to jump. What he doesnot know isthat Gavin, an athele,isinvolved in a deadly feud with Joe (Patrick Wilson), a Christian extremist. Joe's wife, Shana, (Liv Tyled) is caught in the middle ae Joe seeks to test Gavin's faith or lack of it. Cutting between the present and the past, tension escalates as verbal shots give way to deadly threats in arace against time that neither God nor the police can stop Along the way, the film provacatively explores the intellectual and emotional conflicts between religion and atheism The First Atheist Musical - short films program / 60 min Who says atheists don't have any good songs? Sing along with your fellow heathens to ths variety hour of swezome godless musictalent, Afterall, what better place to debut the world’ fist atheist musical than the world's firs atheist fim festival?