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"Just Yell Fire," a movie intended to teach self-defense against abduction and rape, was shot almost entirely on campus over the course of five days in June.
CCC students Devin Graham and Chris Hinton assist Gaffer Rick Lord and Director of Photography Ed Henry in filming Catherine Wehage at the Tri-Met bus stop on campus.
Henry and Director Takafumi Uehara plan a shot in the Niemeyer Center lobby.
Dallas Jessup and Park Maguire act out a scene in which Jessup...

Two St. Mary's High teens have attracted some star-power for a self-defense DVD.
Josh Holloway, the blonde never-do-well star of ABC's "Lost," has signed on to make a last-minute cameo in the local self-defense video, "Just Yell Fire,' which was written and stars 14-year-old Dallas Jessup and 15-year-old Catherine Wehage, two sophomores at St. Mary's Academy in Portland. The two friends, who live in Vancouver, enlisted the help of friends, neighbors in their community and from their...

On a warm Saturday afternoon, 14-year-old Dallas Jessup administers a knee strike, an eye jab and an ear pull to an attacker at a bus stop. Her best friend, Catherine Wehage, 15, dispatches a hair comb, an eye jab and a painful groin slap against an attacker in the woods.
It is necessary roughness: This is first day of shooting for "Just Yell Fire," a self-defense DVD project the two St. Mary's Academy High School sophomores co-wrote that centers on a "Bill of Rights" for teenage...