…someone on the
planet dies of hunger or extreme poverty.
That’s the
theme of the documentary film Every Three Seconds that I saw
at the Awakened World
International Film Festival in Santa Barbara last week. The film chronicles
the actions of five ordinary people who have accomplished (are still accomplishing)
extraordinary things. The five are an eight-year-old boy, two grandmothers, and
two thirty-somethings. None of them set out to do something extraordinary but
all saw something in the world that they just could not sit still for, started
with one small action, and followed up step by step in an unplanned, organic
process that lead to an effort that they would never have dared to undertake if
they had seen where it would lead at the beginning.
The point is
that not everyone can or needs to do huge earth-shattering projects, but
everyone can do something, whether across the world or in our own local
communities.
Watch both the short
homepage video and the trailer at http://www.everythreeseconds.net/.
And the film is available now for download at iTunes and as of November 18 through
Netflix.
Truly inspiring
and moving.
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