Tonight on GRITtv an interview with filmmaker Joshua Seftel, the director of War Inc., on the boundaries between art and politics, documentary and feature film, and the power of images. Find out why Seftel gave up med school to make films and how his first documentary, a 30-minute homage to a French Lit professor at Tufts, led him to Romania and beyond.

Then in a lively roundtable discussion Michael Connery, the author of Youth to Power: How Today’s Young Voters are Building Tomorrow’s Progressive Majority, Christian DiPalermo, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, and Malia Lazu, Executive Director of The Gathering for Justice, an organization to mobilize youth and end child incarceration, discuss the post-2004 political landscape and why 2008 may be the year of the youth vote.

From the League of Young Voters to The Bus Project young people are organizing in new and creative ways. If corporations can reach our young folk (let’s not forget that Rupert Murdoch owns Myspace) through new technology, why can’t progressives rise to the occasion? As Lazu says, we have to stop being the robots and sleepers. None too soon. See it here on GRITtv and find out why the youth vote may just change the face of electoral politics.

And the dream generation makes history. See footage from the Backbone Campaign’s Procession for the Future in Portland, Oregon.

Finally, a short documentary from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival’s first exclusively youth-produced program of shorts. In the Hidden Cost of Cashmere, the demand for cashmere and cheap consumer goods is linked to desertification in China and the growing global environmental crisis.