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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.
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