Just Yell Fire
| Just Yell Fire | |
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| Directed by | Takafumi Uehara |
| Written by | Dallas Jessup Catherine Wehage Maggie Jessup Jay Jessup |
| Produced by | Maggie Jessup Aulani Wehage |
| Starring | Josh Holloway Dallas Jessup Catherine Wehage Chief Brian Martinek Evangeline Lilly Chad Von Dette Park Maguire Matthew Wadzita Anthony Neal |
| Cinematography | George Ayrouth |
| Edited by | Takafumi Uehara |
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Running time | 48 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Just Yell Fire is a freely distributed 2006 film aimed at teaching young girls to defend themselves against attackers. Started as a school project by Dallas Jessup and Catherine Wehage, then freshman at St. Mary's Academy in Portland, Oregon, the project grew to include the celebrity endorsement of Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly of the television show Lost.
The video teaches viewers weak points on an attacker's body and how to effectively cause enough pain to those points to escape. It also tells viewers how to avoid becoming a target for rape and kidnapping to begin with.
The film's title references a point made in the video: that yelling help or rape may frighten potential witnesses or rescuers away, while yelling fire tends to draw a crowd.