Shirley

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black candidate to seek a major party's nomination for president. Regina King plays her through that campaign, with its tiny budget, fractious advisers and the open hostility of the political establishment.

John Ridley's film is a portrait of someone who ran knowing she would lose, to prove that she could run at all. It's about principle and compromise, and about a woman whose famous slogan, 'Unbought and Unbossed', became a lasting statement of independence.