drum roll please...

Last weekend, our producer extraordinaire encouraged us to participate in the Annual Minority Women and Children AIDS walk coordinated by the African American Women Health and Education Foundation.

We have to admit that the walk was a lot more fun than we had expected. Luckily the talented band of John Muir High school (via Pasadena) set the right tone for us before we proceeded.
So please excuse the shaky video operation, but above is the video taken just as we began our walk. The funny pinoy who is getting his groove on in the beginning is actually one of our main narrators for the To and From documentary.

And speaking of tones, our approach to talking about the subject matter of To and From has us continuously massaging our minds. At this point in the project, our mouth piece (and how we use it) is crucial to the process of moving forward. It's funny because we seem to tweak our verbal description every time we talk about To and From aloud. What is being addressed in To and From relates to everyone, but there seems to be a conditioned state of mind in everyone's reactions once you say the word "HIV AIDS" out loud. We're figuring out that if we're really looking for systemic and cultural change regarding how this issue is perceived (which will hopefully result in lower rates of HIV AIDS infections in addition to increased awareness), then there has to be a serious step in the 're-branding' aspect of this social cause.

More on this to come...