Dear Pestalozzi Children's Foundation of Thailand,
Upon the recommendation of Pusa Srivilas from ECPAT, I am writing to you to ask for your participation in our current Paradigm Shift Project on the solutions to sexual slavery. We're currently creating a short educational documentary film to document how grassroots projects are benefitting communities, why these projects are important, and how the rest of the world can get involved in supporting the solutions.
Once our film is done, we provide it free of charge for NGOs to use as a fundraising tool, and we also provide it for free to educators along with a curricula package to make it easy for teachers to use the film with students of all ages. We want organizations like yours to use the film to approach new supporters and raise awareness of your work. All of our films are non-exclusive and feature a wide range of solutions, and we encourage all non-profits who can use the film to support their work to do so. We always distribute our films for free.
We at The Paradigm Shift Project feel your work would be an excellent fit for this project, and we'd be very excited to come meet you and learn more about your project, and document your programming. As with all our work, we are not interested in dramatic stories or showing victims; rather, we are interested in showing the world a side of sexual slavery that the haven't seen: the solutions. Really hoping you'd like to be involved!
We have already filmed interviews in India, and will be in Thailand and Cambodia this March. We'd like to schedule an interview with you at your earliest convenience.
March 4-9: Bangkok
March 9-15: Chiang Mai (and surrounding
area)
March 15-20: Phnom Penh
March 20-24: Battambang (and surrounding area)
March 24-28: Phnom Penh
Please also feel free to forward this email to colleagues who may be interested in participating! Much of our work comes from peer recommendations in the grassroots network, and these are the projects we’re especially keen to feature.
During this time, we'd be happy to do a brief training with you and your staff/volunteers on how to use photography and film to support your work! If there are other NGOs in the area who would like to attend (even working on other issues), it would be fantastic if they could join in, too. Especially when dealing with controversial issues like sexual slavery and trafficking, there are a few tricks we'd like to share with you on how we've learned to share stories and images in a way that is empowering and compelling, without playing into drama or compromising integrity. We also have a few guerrilla tactics to make shots look and sound more professional, even with any old camera and no prior experience in filmmaking or photography. We could do this easily in a 2 hour workshop.
ABOUT PSP
The Paradigm Shift Project (PSP) is an innovative non-profit organization changing the way we see and support the developing world through documentary media, and we invite you to help us make shift happen! PSP is a registered Canadian charity connecting people around the world to grassroots projects in developing countries, while also providing these organizations with tools that enable them to reach out for
support. We focus our documentary work on contemporary and pressing issues in sustainable development. Through our films, we show that even with the world’s toughest issues, there is indeed hope. Grassroots organizations all around the world are finding and implementing solutions to the world’s toughest problems, and it’s easy for each of us to help and get involved – but only if we know about them! PSP is a facilitator, building important relationships to bridge socioeconomic and geopolitical divisions in our world. PSP is also an educator, informing us on the issues, and more importantly, how we can be part of the solutions.
To date, our films have been seen in over 100 countries by over 30,000 people:
- Rice Cultivation in Bali & The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- From The Earth to The Pot: Urban Agriculture & Food Security in Lima, Peru
- Greasy Palms: The Impact of Indonesia's Palm Oil Plantations
- Malaysia's Invisible Children: The Rights of Street, Stateless & Refugee Kids
- Voicing Disaster: Responding as Global Citizens to Natural Disasters
- Access to Water is Asia (to be released this
March)
Really looking forward to connecting with you! Please let me know a date that would be good for you. You can reach me at 086.322.0263.
Best,
Rebecca
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