Flying Kiss: A Movie For a Cause To Fight Against Tuberculosis

Flying Kiss

This March 2014, an event-for-a-cause is coming to selected SM Cinemas. This event might just help save 75 Filipinos from dying everyday. This event might just save your family members, friends, co-workers and acquaintances from contacting a contagious disease and infecting one another. This event seeks to help people understand and lessen their stigma on people who have acquired a deadly disease. This is an event to fight tuberculosis or TB.

In commemoration of the upcoming World Tuberculosis Day, Sinehan Advocacy Media Projects Inc. (SAMPI), an independent media advocacy company that specializes in conceptualizing, producing, managing and implementing advocacy projects, brings the regular cinema screening  of an advocacy movie about tuberculosis titled “FLYING KISS”, written and directed by Crisaldo V. Pablo, in SM Megamall, SM City North Edsa and SM Manila from 19 to 25 March 2014.

Starring Carl Guevarra, Wynwyn Marquez, Fabio Ide, Ma. Isabel Lopez, Maey Bautista, Ate Gay Morales, Gio Medina, Andrea Tatad, Cheska Carillon and Ralph dela Paz, FLYING KISS tells a story of a young woman who is about to achieve all her dreams but everything was put into a halt when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. It is about her struggles in regaining the life that she almost lost because of the disease.
FLYING KISS is a comedy-drama advocacy movie initiated by Sinehan Advocacy Media Projects Inc. (SAMPI), together with the Department of Health (DOH) National TB Program and National Center for Health Promotion, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

Part of the proceeds shall go to anti-tuberculosis advocates called the TB Task Forces. They are groups of private citizens that roam the streets of Metro Manila, and brave even the most dangerous and least accessible areas of the metropolis to talk and educate the people about tuberculosis. They also look for possible TB patients and convince them to avail of the needed interventions to save them from dying with the disease. And more importantly, they take care of TB patients who stay at home and help ensure that these patients follow the needed daily medications for six months so that they can fully recover.

Most of these Task Forces do not have the necessary resources to continue their advocacy. SAMPI, through the movie FLYING KISS, would like to help them raise funds so that they can sustain their activities, and also to at least compensate the efforts of their members. These men and women who are members of the Task Forces devote most of their time for free, for the sake of pursuing a noble advocacy to promote normal and healthy lives for other people. It is time to somehow help and support them.