Channel your creativity and skills for a good cause and win prizes!

Hep B Free Philadelphia and Hepatitis B Foundation invite you to create a 30-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) to raise awareness about hepatitis B. Finalists will receive prize money and the winner’s PSA will be shown at Hep B Free Philadelphia’s annual media event as well as **drum rolls** the 2012 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival! Thousands will get to see your creative brainchild!

Hepatitis B is a serious infection that affects about 2 million people in the United States. About 1 in 10 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are chronically infected with African immigrants approaching a similar ratio as well. About 1 in 4 of the chronically infected individuals will die of liver cancer or cirrhosis. Many infected individuals are not aware of their status because hepatitis B usually doesn’t produce symptoms for decades, and when the symptoms start showing it is often too late for treatment – it is a silent killer!

Help us raise awareness by entering the “B A Hero” PSA Video Contest and submitting a PSA made by you! Videos should highlight hepatitis B and include the “B A Hero” theme.

5 Easy Steps:
1. Make a 30-second video to raise awareness and B a hero
2. Check the fact sheet to make sure all the information is correct
3. Submit the PSA through Hep B Free Philly’s Facebook page (upload app will be up soon)
4. Get all your friends to vote for your PSA
5. Win prizes and B famous!

Submission deadlines: Round 1 – Feb 17, Round 2 – March 16, Round 3 – April 13

*Contest is limited to individuals who are physically located in the Greater Philadelphia region

For more info on registration, guidelines and more, please click here.

For the press release, please click here.

Questions? Please contact Hep B Free Philadelphia program manager Daniel Chen at Daniel.chen@hepb.org.

Three finalists will win $100 each!
One Grand Prize winner will win an additional $150
AND have their video shown at the 2012 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival!

B a hero! Make a PSA Video!

We hope you can attend the ceremony. The price of admission includes food, open bar, and the 10th Annual Lunar New Year Celebration following the award ceremony.

(Please note you can also attend just the Lunar New Year Celebration at 7:30pm which promises to be an exciting fun filled evening with performances and samplings of food)

Audience Awards:
Narrative Feature Film: Saigon Electric
Documentary: I Am

We will be screening previews from each of our films as well as special video messages from several of our filmmakers and the locally produced short films:

Converge – Dir. Sara Suleman
Happiness is Iraq in My Rearview Mirror – Dir. Peter Kim
Act of Fate – Dir. Joey Min

There will be FREE catered food (we love free food), a cash bar and we’ll be giving out a few All Access Festival Passes!

If you like good food, good drinks, good film and good people, come hang out with us at the Prince.

RSVP on Facebook >>HERE