April 6, 2015

AZPM’s WORLD channel airs new episodes of acclaimed American ReFramed as part of Sexual Abuse Awareness Month

In recognition of April’s Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Arizona Public Media is airing special programming on WORLD Channel featuring stories from survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse.

Tucson, AZ - April 6th, 2015 — In recognition of April’s Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Arizona Public Media will air special programming on WORLD Channel that features stories of resilience from survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse.

Family Affair and The Perfect Victim, which are new episodes of the acclaimed independent film series America ReFramed, serve both to raise awareness for the prevention of sexual abuse, as well as highlight the victims’ capacity for perseverance in the face of trauma.

Family Affair, premiering Tuesday, April 7th at 6 p.m. on WORLD Channel, tells the story of Chico Colvard as he seeks to understand his family’s calamitous past. Some thirty years after an accident uncovered the repeated emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of Colvard’s three sisters at the hands of their father, he seeks to grasp the truth about the horrors of his childhood, the man at the center of those horrors, and the ability of his sisters to forgive. Family Affair airs again April 7 at 10 p.m., April 11 at 8 p.m. and April 12 at 12 a.m.

The Perfect Victim, which airs Tuesday, April 14th at 6 p.m. on WORLD Channel, features four women incarcerated for killing their abusive husbands, and the efforts to win their freedom. Raped, abused, and nearly killed by their spouses, these women chose finally to fight back—and were sentenced to life in prison. After a decade and a half long battle, and a collective 85 years in Missouri State prison, the women appeal for justice to be done, and a second chance at the lives taken from them.

While these films may be difficult to watch at times, they serve to inform our community as well as possibly providing a roadmap to recovery for survivors.

Cox Cable subscribers can find WORLD on channel 83; Comcast subscribers can find it on channel 203. For those using an antenna, WORLD is located at channel 27.3.

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