Boston Digital Productions Helps DoD Battle PTSD Stigma

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 4, 2008
Contact: Rocco Giuliano Phone: 617.426.6135
Email: mondorocco@rcn.com
Company: Boston Digital Productions/Boston Digital Editing, LLP
Web: www.bostondigitalediting.com
Address: 316 Stuart Street, Boston, MA 02116
Boston Digital Productions Helps DoD Battle PTSD Stigma
The Department of Defense has launched three nationally televised public service announcements to encourage military personnel and families to seek counseling for deployment-related stress. The spots, created by Boston Digital Productions, a division of Boston Digital Editing, follow release earlier this year of a 25-minute awareness documentary entitled A Different Kind of Courage, also produced by BDP. The PSAs and documentary are components of the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program (MHSAP), a DoD-funded initiative to help deployed personnel and family members identify symptoms and access assistance before problems become serious. Director/producer Richard Tilkin stated, “Our service members and families are genuine heroes, and their personal stories are incredibly riveting. That’s why we made a creative choice to keep the camera on the people themselves, instead of the more conventional technique of cutting to b-roll. It’s about compassion and identifying with raw emotion.”

The PSAs begin airing nationwide in August. An example can be viewed at http://bostondigitalediting.tv/work.html#1.
A Different Kind of Courage is available free of charge to military installations, family groups, and veterans’ organizations, and can be viewed online at http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/military/index.aspx.

Emmy award-winning director/producer Richard Tilkin led a creative team consisting of DP/editor Bob Heim, director of photography Joe Figucia and writer Rocco Giuliano.

About Boston Digital Productions
Boston Digital Productions provides a complete range of video production services for Fortune 500 companies and broadcast television. Most recently, BDP post-produced Friday Night Phenoms and Friday Night Heroes, featuring NFL stars Tom Brady and LaDanian Tomlinson and hosted by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.

About the Mental Health Self-Assessment Program
MHSAP is a program of the nonprofit Screening for Mental Health, Inc., funded by Force Health Protection and Readiness, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs. To take a free, anonymous self-assessment, visit www.MilitaryMentalHealth.org



A post I did on A Different Kind of Courage

http://woundedtimes.blogspot.com/2008/06/ptsd-takes-different-kind-of-courage.html

It's a very helpful video and puts things out in the open. It is also a perfect title. Healing PTSD takes a different kind of courage.