Political Film Review #689

VOTING BEGINS TO SELECT BEST FILMS OF 2023

Select the best film of 2023 in each of five categories. The deadline is February 29, 2024:

Select the best from the categoryEXPOSÉ, fact-based films that raise political consciousness about events and situations previously little known that get attention in film:

FILM TITLEACCEPTCONTENT (see full review on website)
Chevalier(      )A Black man competes with Mozart
Killers of the Flower Moon(      )How Osage became rich from oil revenue
Oppenheimer(      )A physicist’s nuclear war dilemma
Sweetwater(      )Life of Harlem Globetrotter Nat Clifton
Women Talking(      )How women live in Mennonite colonies

Vote for the top film that raises consciousness of the need for improvements in HUMAN RIGHTS:

FILM TITLEACCEPTCONTENT (see full review on website)
Aurora’s Sunrise(      )The Armenian massacre
Killers of the Flower Moon(      )Whites plot to take wealth from Osage oil lands
Miranda’s Victim(      )Justice for a raped woman
The Wind & the Reckoning(      )Persecution of Native Hawaiians after a White coup 1893―1898
Women Talking(      )Mennonite women respond to rape

Vote yes or no for the only film seeking to raise consciousness of the need for DEMOCRACY:

FILM TITLEYESNOCONTENT (see full review on website)
Aurora’s Sunrise(      )(      )How imperialism wrecked democratic life of Armenians

Vote if either film best raises consciousness about the need to choose PEACE rather than violence:

FILM TITLEYESNOCONTENT (see full review on website
Aurora’s Sunrise(      )(      )How Turks unnecessarily violated the tranquil life of Armenians
Golda(      )(      )Golda Meier’s role in the Yom Kippur War

Originally founded in Honolulu, the Political Film Society sponsors the category best film about Hawaii. Select one of two nominees—or none:

FILM TITLEYESNOCONTENT (see full review on website
The Wind and the Reckoning(      )(      )How Native Hawaiians were terrorized after the 1893 coup
Waikiki(      )(      )How Native Hawaiians experience how nature has been mishandled

Winners in all categories will be selected from the final ballot, which will be sent to members following the meeting of the Board of Directors at 11 a.m., March 1, at 8481 Allenwood Road, Los Angeles, CA.

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