Red Leaves Falling is an story about child pornography and child sex trafficking. As part of their advocacy campaign, Stairway Foundation creates animations related to the topic of sexual abuse for people of all ages, to get people talking about it. Their third and newest animation will premiere on June 2, 2009 (Tuesday!) at the RCBC in Manila, an awareness event that will bring out about 450 politicians, NGOs such as UNICEF, and other "high- stake-holding-people," as the staff at Stairway call them, who are expected to attend. Everyone at Stairway is both anxious and excited, as they hope this event will influence the ratification of the new law, to make posession of child pornography illegal, that is currently being processed.
Thursday we received word that the final animation had been put onto a CD and that it would be in Puerto Galera for us to pick up that night. We had our own pre-screening up at the main house (Lars and Monica
's house).We will all be traveling together to Manila tomorrow to prepare for the event. I will be documenting the event on Tuesday night and we return to Stairway on Wednesday.
On an separate note- Carissa and I almost had to sleep with a gecko on Friday night. We came in from working on the project pretty late, and were greeted by a HUGE amphibian that would not move. The four of us, exhausted from working, spent about 30 minutes trying to devise a plan to get it out. It was definitely a production but with a little coaxing, Carissa's bed mattress, and a squeegie, we managed to rid Carissa and my room of our unwanted visitor.
Here is a link to view the Red Leaves Trailer
