YouTube is in the Mood for Love… and Politics.
There were a couple of new developments at YouTube this past week. Announced today on YouTube’s Blog are two new platforms that will help you locate your Senator and Representatives’ YouTube channels. The Senate Hub and The House Hub both feature a searchable map that will take you right to the channel of your choice, where you can watch behind the scenes footage at Capitol Hill. Here’s the intro video:
Also announced this past Friday is the YouTube Screening Room’s special two week feature. With Valentine’s Day about a month away, the topic is, appropriately, love. The four independent films currently being screened promise to be, according to Sara P. from YouTube Film, “not your grandma’s love stories”. Their main feature is “Crazy Love”, by Dan Klores. His film, based on a very unusual love story, won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for “Best Documentary”. Along with that is “Love and War”, a Swedish animation film that was billed as the world’s first animated opera and won “Best Animated Short” at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival. There’s also a U.K. submitted title, “How to Say I Love You”, which first screened on YouTube, and another short film, “Marry Me”, by Australian director Michelle Lehman (posted below). Enjoy.
