Atheist Film Festival

{{Short description|Film festival (2009–2014)}}

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| name = The Atheist Film Festival

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| location = San Francisco, California, United States

| founded = 2009

| founders = David Fitzgerald, Hank Pellissier, Veronica Chater

| language = English

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The Atheist Film Festival was an annual event that ran from 2009-2014. When it launched, it was the world’s first film festival dedicated to showcasing feature films, documentaries, shorts and animated cinema created especially for the atheist community. It was founded by David Fitzgerald, Hank Pellissier and Veronica Chater and focused on films recognizing science, the distinction between church and state and more and as of 2012 was the only explicitly atheist film festival.{{cite web|url=http://sfatheistfilmfestival.org/about-the-festival-2/ |title=About the Festival |publisher=Atheist Film Festival |accessdate=November 24, 2013 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117213220/http://sfatheistfilmfestival.org/about-the-festival-2/ |archivedate=November 17, 2013 }}{{cite news |last1=Winston |first1=Kimberley |title=Atheists find a new venue for the godless: on film |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/atheists-find-a-new-venue-for-the-godless-on-film/2012/08/15/f5f6fe56-e71b-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html |access-date=12 January 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=15 August 2012}}

The Festival grew over the years from small films that the founders rented from Netflix to VIP receptions, and in its fifth year, programming at San Francisco's Roxie Theater.{{cite web|url = https://www.kqed.org/arts/125886/made_by_humans_the_atheist_film_festival_celebrates_its_fifth_year|title = Made by Humans, the Atheist Film Festival Celebrates Its Fifth Year| date=13 September 2013 |publisher = KQED Arts|accessdate = November 24, 2013}}

In 2014 the founders announced the festival's end.{{cite web |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=David |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/atheistfilmfestival/posts/10152319521442459 |access-date=12 January 2021}}