Faux Paw

Thanks to support from Ira and Mary Lou Fulton, and other contributions, BYU students were able to develop a film about Internet safety that is now being shown to elementary students throughout the United States.

You can download Faux Paw and your own custom book at ikeepsafe.org.

Here are some comments to the Fultons from Kelly Loosli, Animation Faculty: Faux Paw is a five-minute film and companion children’s book made for Michael and Jackie Leavitt. The film recently took first place in the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences student awards for traditional animation. In addition to the student award, the quality work created ahs been used to assemble a coalition of organization and companies that will all work together to fund and promote Internet Safety for children. Currently the FBI, Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Nation Crime Council, Target Stores, AOL, forty-three of the fifty states’ First Ladies, Scholastic Books, and the National Newspaper Association all have joined the coalition as a direct result of the students’ work.

Without your generous donations not only would we not have been able to create the project, but the Leavitt’s would never have been able to create their coalition. As the First Family of the animation program, your donation have helped to pay for everything from the hardware and software students use to helping to pay some of the student wages for the thousands of hours they were asked to dedicate to thesis project. Everything that the animation program has accomplished and will continue to accomplish is a direct result of your vision, and your belief in our program. We love and honor you in all that we do and hope that our efforts to the Faux Paw Project will alert millions of children to the dangers of the internet.

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