On Monday 02 September (6.20pm) The Queen’s Film Theatre Belfast will host a short panel discussion after a screening of Penny Lane’s latest documentary Hail Satan?.
Lane’s documentary chronicles the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history, the Satanic Temple a non-theistic group founded in 2013 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Though it uses satanic imagery, the group doesn’t actually believe in Satan (a fact that often gets overlooked in right-wing news coverage of their stunts) but rather use the idea of religious pluralism to advocate against theocracy and to challenge corrupt authority.
Setting up a new series of anarchic public actions, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humour, and a few rebellious friends, you can speak truth to power in some unexpectedly profound ways.
The Q&A session will be hosted by Film Hub NI’s Hugh-Odling Smee, who’ll be chatting with Boyd Sleator who is the Northern Ireland Humanists Development Officer as they discuss some of the topics raised within the documentary.
To book tickets for this event or any other screening check out the QFT’s website.
Hail Satan? will be showing at the QFT until Thursday 05 September 2019.