Yasmin Shiraz Launches Can She Be Saved.com
An Education & Empowerment Movement to Combat Girl Fights, Bullying and Retaliation
CHANTILLY, VA, April 14, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Author, Filmmaker and Activist, Yasmin Shiraz has launched Can She Be Saved.com to address the community need to have workable tools in the prevention of girl fights, bullying and retaliation. The site was named after her award winning film, Can She Be Saved? --a documentary featuring aggressive 8th grade girls who were always getting into fights at their middle school. Currently, Can She Be Saved? is screened at middle and high schools assemblies and comes with a study guide for schools who purchase the academic edition.
Yasmin Shiraz's debut film, Can She Be Saved? which documents teen girl fights was an official selection at 15 film festivals and won 4 Awards, including Best First Film at the International Youth Film Festival. The trailer has over 16,000 views. Click here for the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pAdF4Oog0
Shiraz recently launched CanSheBeSaved.com to educate and empower youth and educators with tools to combat teen aggression and violence. We provide film screenings, workshops and DVDs through the site. Click here for the link:www.canshebesaved.com
Can She Be Saved? was recently featured on Fox News as part of an effort to educate the public on teen girl fights and bullying. Click here for the link: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/entertainment/documentary-looks-at-girl-bullying-031711
We are currently booking interviews for Yasmin Shiraz as she is actively in the media discussing girl fights, teen bullying, youth violence and retaliation. Please let me know if you'd like to screen Can She Be Saved? and speak with Ms. Shiraz about these topics.
Please contact Franceli Chapman for all media inquiries at fchapman@stilleyerise.net or 646-481-2354.
About Yasmin Shiraz
Yasmin Shiraz is a best selling and award winning author of six books, including Retaliation: A Novel which was a 2009 Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers by the American Library Association as well as the critically acclaimed, The Blueprint for My Girls. She is the award winning filmmaker of Can She Be Saved?, a groundbreaking film that documents teen girl fights from the perspectives of 8th grade girls. Can She Be Saved? won Best Documentary at the 2010 NC Black Film Festival and the Best First Film at the 2010 Youth International Film Festival. As an empowerment speaker and activist, she has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities as well as organizations such as the US Postal Service, The Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Girls Inc and the YMCA to name a few. She is a trained sociologist having received her Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from Hampton University and her Masters of Arts in Sociology from Morehead State University.
About Still Eye Rise Films
An independent production company, Still Eye Rise Films focuses on creating impactful narratives and documentaries that bring to light truthful and shocking experiences that young people are enduring throughout the US. Still Eye Rise Films produced the award winning film, Can She Be Saved? - which documents teen girl fights. Every Corner is their award winning documentary webseries which showcases urban youth telling real stories. Still Eye Rise Films is in pre-production on their first feature length narrative and in post-production on another groundbreaking documentary.
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