3 things I love are the cinema, social action and YouTube! Now, once a day I cam going to combine all 3 in one awesome post by posting an awesome social action YouTube video and an awesome cinema related YouTube video (sometimes maybe I’ll even find one magical video that combines the two)

Like TakePart and Participant Productions, YouTube entertains and informs. With that I give you the

Social Action and Cinema YouTube Videos of the Day:

1) The Real News : US polar bear protection falls short

For the Cinema YouTube Video of the Day, Click here >>>

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Seeing The Unforeseen at last years Human Rights Watch Film Festival reconfirmed for me how powerful documentaries can really be. Laura Dunn’s flawless portrait whisks you away to Austin, Texas directly into the murky battle between nature and ideas of development. The film follows a local developer, a legal battle over Austin’s beloved natural swimming spot Barton Springs and different families as they try to find affordable housing, often having to turn to new developments.

What makes the documentary stand out is that it shies away from being a film that simply makes the developer the bad guy.

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