POLITICAL FILM REVIEW P.O. Box 461267 Hollywood, CA 90046 [log in to unmask] http://www.polfilms.com #505 NEWSLETTER OF THE POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY, INC March 1, 2016 POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY ANNOUNCES BEST FILMS OF 2015 During 2015 members of the Political Film Society, selecting from a diverse set of nominated films, picked winning films that were equally as diverse: For the film that best raised consciousness about the need for DEMOCRACY, the choice was Jimmy’s Hall, a film directed by Ken Loach, which showed how Jimmy Gralton sought to introduce social democratic values into Ireland after World War I and the independence of the country. For a film that best depicted a journalistic-style EXPOSÉ, presenting lesser known facts, the winner was Experimenter, directed by Michael Almereyda, which depicted the life of psychologist Stanley Milgram, who discovered that ordinary Americans would use torture to please an authority figure. For the best film on HUMAN RIGHTS, the voters selected Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron, which focused on 1912, when the fight for women’s rights escalated to include dynamite, mass arrests, fasting, forced feeding in prison, and martyrdom. The best film presenting PEACE as the way to resolve conflicts instead of violence, the awards goes to Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, which showed the imperialism of Islamic jihadists taking over a peaceful village in Africa with firearms and imposing strict rule that produced chaos. Directors of the four films will now receive award certificates. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html