NOMINATIONS CLOSE FOR POLITICAL FILM SOCIETY AWARDS
During 2000, more than 20 films were nominated for various Political Film Society awards. Rules require only five nominations per category, so members can now narrow the choices. The ballot below has a threefold choice—accept, drop, or undecided. To refresh your memory, consult reviews posted during 2000.
OFFICIAL BALLOT (FOR MEMBERS ONLY)
Instructions: Mark an X between the parentheses for films that you believe promotes political consciousness within each of the following categories. There is a limit of five (5) under the column “accept” for each category:
| DEMOCRACY | ACCEPT | DROP | UNDECIDED | CONTENT |
| The Contender | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | depicts sexual McCarthyism |
| Human Resources | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | French workers protest their obsolescence |
| The Hurricane | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how lawyers freed an innocent Black |
| It All Starts Today | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how bureaucracy squelches serving public |
| Steal This Movie! | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | Abbie Hoffman denied a peaceful protest |
| Sunshine | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | dictatorships force ethnic assimilation |
| EXPOSÉ | ACCEPT | DROP | UNDECIDED | CONTENT |
| Before Night Falls | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | Cuban hypocrisy about homosexuality |
| But I’m a Cheerleader | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | camps to stop homosexuality in children |
| Catfish in Black Bean Sauce | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | refugees from Vietnam struggle in USA |
| Erin Brockovich | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how a company poisoned water |
| From the Edge of the City | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | why immigrant males become prostitutes |
| The Hurricane | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | police frame-up of innocent Black man |
| It All Starts Today | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | absurd results of welfare budget cuts |
| Luminarias | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | perspectives of Mexicanas on life in LA |
| Remember the Titans | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how Alexandria, VA, achieved racial peace |
| Steal This Movie! | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | heroic life of Abbie Hoffman |
| Thirteen Days | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | JFK foiled Pentagon’s plan for nuclear war |
| Tigerland | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | stupid basic training of GIs for Vietnam |
| Traffic | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | hypocrisy of the War on Drugs |
| HUMAN RIGHTS | ACCEPT | DROP | UNDECIDED | CONTENT |
| Before Night Falls | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | Castro’s discrimination against writers, gays |
| The Contender | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | a woman fights for sexual privacy |
| Erin Brockovich | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | the legal fight against a polluting company |
| The Hurricane | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | exonerating a Black man framed for murder |
| It All Starts Today | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | needless deaths due to French welfare cuts |
| Remember the Titans | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how desegregation worked in Alexandria |
| Sunshine | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | the superiority of multiculturalism |
| X-Men | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | absurdity of persecuting “strangers” |
| PEACE | ACCEPT | DROP | UNDECIDED | CONTENT |
| The Cell | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | why abused children should be adopted |
| Crime & Punishment in Suburbia | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | explains why suburban violence erupts |
| It All Starts Today | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | a defiant teacher goads welfare workers |
| It’s the Rage | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | easily available handguns kill too many |
| Kippur | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | battlefield carnage of Yom Kippur War |
| The Terrorist | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how youth are trained to suicide missions |
| Thirteen Days | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how nuclear war was averted in 1962 |
| Titanic Town | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | a peace activist stirs up Northern Ireland |
| X-Men | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | how special human powers brought peace |
After marking your ballot, mail to the above address or email to PolFilmS@aol.com by January 31. Results of the nomination balloting and final ballots for all categories will be sent to members by February 5.