The cast of White Frog put together a PSA to help Janet Liang find the perfect match for a bone marrow donor. Amy Hill, Harry Shum Jr, Joan Chen, Booboo Stewart, and BD Wong gives an urgent request to help Janet and other leukemia patients like herself. Listen to these Asian American entertainers support Janet and the community.
Learn more about how you can help here.
White Frog cast PSA from Janet Liang
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UCI Film students interview Chris from Big or Bigger/Instant Noodles Crew about The Stanley Project and how it came about. Here’s more from Chris:
When Stanley was sick, I promised him that I would do something to help others who were fighting cancer. Now, with the Stanley Project, I hope to spread the connection of love and caring that i felt, and the Stanley Movement to as many people as I can.
To everyone fighting cancer or who has a loved one fighting cancer, please know that you are not alone. I hope you will join us in the Stanley Project. Partake in the movement where we all stay connected in our struggle, and where your story is the story of each one of us.
remember.cancer can’t, love can.
The Stanley Project is a unique online social support group with the mission of connecting people together in the war against cancer. Learn more about the project here.
The Stanley Project
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Mixed Match is an inspirational, emotional, and evocative feature-length documentary that explores the need to find mixed ethnicity bone marrow and cord blood donors to donate to multiethnic patients suffering from life threatening blood diseases such as leukemia. This live action and animated film is a dramatic journey focusing on the main characters’ struggles to survive against incredible odds.
Directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns, the documentary will lead the viewer through the lives of young patients and families struggling to overcome life-threatening blood diseases. While presenting medical concerns, Mixed Match will be a character-driven documentary that will highlight a number of exceptional, courageous, and inspiring participants. The film will follow recently diagnosed multiethnic patients in search of donors, some of whom must struggle to hold on to hope through countless rounds of excruciating chemotherapy as they spend months searching for a match. A patient who is in remission after a successful stem cell/marrow donation will also be documented. Another patient’s story is told through his surviving family members, as he was not able to find a suitable marrow match and, as a result, ultimately succumbed to his illness. Lastly, the documentary will feature a joyous and heartfelt reunion between a donor and patient after a successful transplant, as the two meet for the very first time.
Mixed Match is an important human story told from the perspective of youth who are forced to discover their identities through their deadly illnesses and how their mixed backgrounds threaten their chance at survival, thus highlighting why in this day and age, knowing our history and cultural heritage still matters.
The documentary addresses the fact that every year over 30,000 people in North America are diagnosed with life threatening blood diseases. For many patients, a bone marrow transplant is their only chance at survival. Currently, in the US, of the 7 million registered bone marrow donors and 100,000 cord blood donors, less than 3% are multiethnic. This statistic, although proportionate to the population of mixed people in the country, poses a substantial challenge to a mixed patient given the endless variety of possible genetic combinations in the registry. Finding a multiethnic marrow match in the public registry has been compared at times to “finding a needle in a haystack” or “winning the lottery.” Therefore, this is a very timely and important issue.
Learn more about how you can help here.
Help fund Mixed Match documentary
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Singer Kina Grannis released the song “Make It Go” about finding out a family member has cancer. The emotional single talks about her mother’s cancer from learn about it to dealing with it moving forward. Written five years ago, “Make It Go” was Kina’s way to cope with her ordeal. Here’s more about the track:
This song is dedicated to my mother who was diagnosed with a blood cancer 11 years ago. She is amazing and strong and doing well and one of the most amazing humans you could ever meet.
You can download the single below:
100% of your 99¢ goes toward the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the fight to cure blood cancers.
Listen to more music from Kina Grannis : In Your Arms, The One You Say Goodnight, Valentine and My Time With You.
Make It Go by Kina Grannis
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Run Team Kina with Danny Pudi
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Lyrics to Make It Go by Kina Grannis
I don’t remember much, I tried to put it aside
All I know is I was empty, scared and frozen inside
You were away, hospital stays for nights
Something was wrong and you were hurting and we didn’t know why
And then we learned the news, remember Daddy cried
Nothing’s worse than seeing someone so strong so petrified
I didn’t know whether to scream or die
So I just covered up my eyes pretending everything’s fine
Oh, no I never showed you all my tears ’cause I don’t
Want this to be something that’s real, and I hoped
That somehow my love might make it go
And I apologize for never showing I cared
But with all the fear and pain I felt no words could compare
I was so wrong, it wasn’t strong not to share
The feelings in my heart, my nightmares, and the dreams that I bear
Oh, no I never showed you all my tears ’cause I don’t
Want this to be something that’s real, and I hoped
That somehow my love might make it go
How could I, How could I go
Go so long and not let you know
That I’m so scared and so angry, too
It’s so unfair, why did this happen to you
Oh, no I never showed you all my tears ’cause I don’t
Want this to be something that’s real, and I hoped
That somehow my love might make it go
Ever since January 2012, when Janet Liang released her personal plea to find a perfect match, channelAPA.com has been inundated with requests to help and comments of support. Many have shown support in the Asian American community. She updates her supporters since her last video post. She been in the hospital for almost 40 days with some intense chemotherapy treatment. The treatment didn’t put her cancer into remission and her leukemia still lingers in her body. Soon, she’ll need to go through several more rounds of chemo with different drugs. The positive side: there’s still time to help her with the bone marrow donor drives with the June 2012 as the target date to find her perfect match.
Here’s how you can help:
Join a marrow registry in the United States, Canada, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or other countries.
Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012 (YouTube)
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Helping Janet Liang update : February 2012
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Since the video of Janet Liang pleading to find a perfect match for a bone marrow donor, Asian American artists have released videos to support her in her fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Entertainers like Kina Grannis, Victor Kim, Wong Fu Productions, Far East Movement, Kevjumba, and Ryan Higa have stepped up to the plate to promote the need for bone marrow donors in the Asian American community. Previously, Project Michelle received similar support from the community as well. The channelAPA.com crew loves seeing the APA community helping one another.
update: Jeremy Lin shows his support on Facebook and twitter.
Please visit these websites to learn more about bone marrow transplants, registering to become a donor, and joining Janet Liang’s cause:
http://www.helpingjanet.com
http://www.facebook.com/helpingjanet
http://www.aadp.org
http://www.asianmarrow.org
International Secret Agents (ISA) crew (Wong Fu Productions, Far East Movement, Kevjumba, and Ryan Higa)
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Free Your Mind by Victor Kim x Dumbfoundead
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Kina Grannis on VH1 : Kina Issues A Plea For Bone Marrow Donation
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