Category Archives: PSA

The Blind Project

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The Blind Project

We saw this spotlighted on the YouTube homepage. The Blind Project is a collective of passionate individuals uniting together, leveraging our unique talents to empower women exploited by the commercial sex trade in Southeast Asia.

The Issue: The problem is clear. Right now millions of women and children are enslaved and exploited in the multi-billion dollar commercial sex trade. Victims of the commercial sex trade are treated like meaningless commodities. They are sold and bought, resold and bought again. Often times even when women are rescued, many fall back into the trade because of limited resources, scarce economic opportunities and/or social stigmas.

Also check out Redlight by Lucy Liu

The Blind Project – Trailer

The Blind Project – The Mission

Officer Bart Kwan wants you to vote

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Officer Bark Kwan wants you to vote
Here’s another PSA from the Reel in the Vote 2010 campaign. This time we spotted Officer Bart Kwan of Just Kidding Films. The PSA was directer by Karen Lin. (check out some of Karen’s other work Sublingual by Scott Tang and 2010 Census – Taiwanese American PSA.)

If you think you can made a better PSA, join the 30- SECOND VIDEO CONTEST

If you have access to a video camera and a great idea, here’s your chance to make a difference and win cash + an all-expense paid trip to the San Diego Asian Film Festival! We are looking for the most creative, 30-second videos that promote and encourage voter registration and participation in the APIA community. This competition is free and open to anyone. Deadline is August 31.

For more questions please e-mail INFO@SDAFF.org

Officer Bart Kwan wants you to vote

Someday Interview with May Ling & MinhTu Van

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On the channelAPA.com East Coast tour, we chatted with singer/songwriter May Ling and executive producer MinhTu Van of the music video Someday, a song about domestic violence. We learn about their respective music and filmmaking backgrounds. Additionally, they talk about how the music video came together and what it means to them. This project fused a non-profit organization (New York Asian Women’s Center) with talented artists. Not only do they promote social activism and awareness, but they also show how the video is used to help those faced with domestic violence. Look for a potential music video about child trafficking in the future.

Someday Interview with May Ling & MinhTu Van

Someday music video

National API HIV/AIDS Awareness Day PSA

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May 19th is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Here’s James Kyson-Lee, one of the stars of NBC’s Heroes, doing a PSA spot. What are you doing to raise awareness in the community?

Here’s some interesting stats:
* 1 in 3 Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV don’t know it
* Over half of Pacific Islanders have never been tested for HIV
* Over two-thirds of Asians have never been tested for HIV

Get more info here

National API HIV/AIDS Awareness Day PSA

Which One Deserves To Die? – Hepatitis B Ad

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Which One Deserves To Die? - Hepatitis B Ad

Hepatitis B isn’t often discussed by Asian Americans, but this ad will get you talking. San Francisco Hep B Free launched “Which One Deserves To Die?,” a provocative ad campaign alerting the Asian American community that 1 in 10 Asian Americans is chronically infected with hepatitis B compared to 1 in 1,000 in the general population. This in your face ad shows why we as Asian Americans need to be tested for hepatitis B. This million dollar ad campaign will appear in ethnic and local newspapers, billboards, bus shelters for the month of May. TV commercials were also produced and will be shown on cable, broadcast and Asian television.

also check out the B HERE campaign that ran last year.

Which One Deserves To Die? – Beauty Pagaent

Hepatitis B commercial in the local news

Which One Deserves To Die? – Chinese Family