New Documentary

[aosfilms]

Hi everyone!
My name is Matt Pierce and I am from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. In today's society everything seems to be shared and spread on the Internet and through all kinds of media. Through my love of filming I had decided to create a documentary called, "<snip!>". <snip!> is a film about both Christian and Atheist perspectives on some of life's biggest questions such as "Who are we as humans?”, "Why are we here?", "What happens when we die?", "How should we live?", and “From where do we get meaning and purpose in life?” The film will also explore what both Christianity and Atheism truly believe and whether they can provide sound reasoning for their assertions. I don’t believe that Christianity and Atheism have been represented fairly in a film where recognized experts from both sides have been interviewed. By interviewing prominent speakers from each worldview, this film hopes to correct the common misrepresentations of each side.

Every single person has a worldview and how they form that worldview determines how they live their lives and how they answer each of these questions. It's the biggest part of our lives! It's only when these questions are all looked at together and really scrutinized that someone can tell if they have a coherent worldview or not. A person's worldview should be based on the truth, not on emotions, skepticism, or wishful thinking. Finding truth is extremely important and vital to living life. This documentary will be a hunt for that truth to see if it lies in either of these dominant worldviews.

I am about halfway finished as I have interviewed eleven people so far including Daniel Dennett and Paul Tripp. I am currently running an indiegogo campaign to raise the funds to finish it off. I would be truly honored and grateful if you were able to let me know what you think and to even share it with friends if you like the idea!

Here are a few links to my indiegogo campaign, website and trailer:
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Thanks for taking the time to read this. I look forward to hearing back from you all!

[Alex K]

"should be based on the truth, not on emotions, skepticism, or wishful thinking."

One of those is not like the other
Seriously, if that's your premise, your approach seems a bit too simple minded to be making a film that claims to be the first fair depiction of christianity and atheism.

[Kayenneh]

So, one thread was not enough..? I'll repeat myself, read through the rules.

As for the rest of your post, may I ask what the hell? There is no "atheist perspective" on any of the questions you've asked. Atheism (which is NOT capitalized, btw) is a stance on deities, nothing else. If you want the "atheistic perspective", you'll have to ask every single atheist what those questions mean specifically to him or her. Actually, do that with the Christians too, since they can't seem to agree on their dogma, why should there be a specific Christian answer to all of those questions? As for those questions being "the biggest part of our lives!", don't presume to speak for others. I find them exceedingly boring and couldn't give a rat's ass as to what e.g. happens when I die, since it's quite obvious that I'll be dead and there is no further possibility to contemplate on the matter.
And as for "finding truth is extremely important and vital to living life", I don't agree, since there is no absolute truth and why do I need to find this particular truth anyway?

Oh, and welcome to AF, hopefully you'll contribute something better in the future..

[fr0d0]

Well atheist is to theist just like Christian is to Humanist, for example.

[KichigaiNeko]

Do try to engage with the community aosfilms

[fr0d0]

I think he left already. Lots more forums to advertise on...

[FreeTony]

This documentary will be a hunt for that truth to see if it lies in either of these dominant worldviews.

Atheism isn't a worldview, just as disbelief in Fairies isn't a worldview.

[Alex K]

Hey the trailer has got AaronRa in it, maybe it isn't so bad after all

But seriously, the way the filmmaker presesented the goal of the film here, I think he would benefit from some more discussions with the people he actually has in his film, or even in this forum, to form a more coherent approach. Are we talking "truth" or evidence? That all sounds like such a naive approach to reality. The trailer and text seems to indicate that for the writer/producer, wishful thinking is somehow a valid part of determining truth - otherwise, why would the filmmaker demand that any valid statement about reality must provide answers to all of these "questions" he raises? Or does he want to reject atheism if it (since not really being a complete standalone world view) fails to come with all the answers?