Successful Tampa Bay Humanitarian Film Festival Looks to Encore
Guests of the Tampa Bay Humanitarian Film Festival provided feedback to the filmmakers after the screening of “Time Simply Passes” at the Criminon Florida Center in downtown Clearwater. The Humanitarian Film Festival showed 33 films that celebrated humani
Clearwater Florida joins Tampa and St. Petersburg in hosting Film Festival
Sponsored by the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, along with United for Human Rights Florida Chapter, the Way to Happiness Association of Tampa Bay, the Florida Chapter of the Foundation for a Drug-Free World and others, films were screened in nine different humanitarian centers along North Fort Harrison Avenue.
These films included the award-winning short films “Two Strangers Who Meet Five Time” by Marcus Markou and “A Little Pause” by Ayesha Jhukla. Feature films screened included “Time Simply Passes”, a documentary about James Richardson, the Florida man wrongly imprisoned for twenty years and “Drug Addiction In America,” a documentary of how the opioid crisis hit a West Virginia town with a vengeance.
“We had excellent feedback from those who attended,” said event organizer Lisa Mansell. “We are definitely looking at doing this festival again. For the most part, the filmmakers who screened their films here were not parishioners, but they share a desire to see social issues brought front and center. Film is a powerful medium to communicate the human condition and raise awareness.”
An attending pastor commented “I have to say that the movies were very inspiring. The message gives you a sense of why you should appreciate others and help one another.”
The Humanitarian program Centers, located along N. Fort Harrison Ave. between Cleveland and Drew Streets, house the social betterment and humanitarian programs supported by the Church of Scientology. Non-religious in nature, these non-profit organizations offer resources to help tackle global issues like drug abuse, human trafficking and psychiatric abuse to declining moral values.
About the Church of Scientology
The Scientology religion was founded by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The first Church of Scientology was formed by Scientologists in Los Angeles in 1954. Today the religion spans the globe with more than 11,000 Churches, Missions and affiliated groups across 167 nations. Social responsibility is a logical extension of spiritual values, and since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1954, Scientologists have been actively involved in service to their communities.
Humanitarian and Social Betterment programs sponsored by Scientologists and like-minded groups include: United for Human Rights, The Way to Happiness, The Foundation for a Drug Free World, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers, the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights and Criminon.
Pat Harney
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