Protesting - is in itself a great value

Do protest films like Project Wild Thing change anything? | Film | The Guardian: "In the past month we've already had films on bees (More Than Honey), the internet and children (InRealLife), and climate change denial (Greedy Lying Bastards), not to mention WikiLeaks dramatisation The Fifth Estate – for those who didn't get enough from recent WikiLeaks documentary We Steal Secrets. Next week's issue doc is Project Wild Thing, in which film-maker David Bond embarks on a crusade to market "nature" to the iPad-fixated, outdoors-phobic youth of Britain. The irony of making a film to encourage kids to get outside more instead of watching films is not lost on Bond, and there is a sense that many other films in this category, in effect, do the same thing with grownups: gluing us to our seats with a pressing issue, then chiding us for not getting out of those seats and doing something. Could it be that documentaries are the problem as much as the solution? Are any of these films actually affecting the issues they're championing? And are any of us really watching them anyway?"

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