'Kind Hearted Woman' Screening and Resource Fair

View All

Campus Notes

Printer-friendly version PDF version

'Kind Hearted Woman' Screening and Resource Fair

Arizona Public Media
April 5, 2013

ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA
Media Advisory

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Sue DeBenedette, Marketing Manager
Tel: 520.621.5222 | Mobile: 520.247.5883
sdebenedette@azpm.org
Follow us on: Twitter: @azpmnews
Facebook: facebook.com/azpublicmedia
Website: azpm.org

KIND HEARTED WOMAN Special Screening & Resource Fair

April 16 at 5:30 pm at Berger Auditorium, Room 207, McClelland Hall

Event to raise awareness of domestic violence, sexual abuse and homelessness

Special AZ Illustrated Science features three-part series on addiction

on PBS 6 on April 2, 9 & 16 and online at azpm.org

Tucson, Arizona - April 3, 2013 –  University of Arizona students, staff and the general public are invited to attend a special screening of the FRONTLINE film “Kind Hearted Woman” on Tuesday, April 16 at 5:30 p.m. on the campus of the University of Arizona at the Berger Auditorium, McClelland Hall, Room 207. The event, presented by Arizona Public Media, the UA Women’s Center, and Native American Student Affairs, will also feature a resource fair that will include local agencies Emerge!, Southern Arizona Center for Sexual Assault, Tucson Indian Center and others. The resource fair will be held in the lobby outside of Berger Auditorium. Refreshments and light hors d’ oeuvres will be served. The screening of an edited version of “Kind Hearted Woman” will start at approximately 6:15 p.m. followed by Q&A.  Please RSVP to 520-621-6828 by April 12, during business hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday.

This event will spotlight the work of advocates of domestic violence prevention, rape prevention, child sex abuse, and homeless women, children and families. By raising awareness of the resources available, local victims and their friends and family will learn about opportunities available to them. This event continues Arizona Public Media’s participation in the Women and Girls Lead campaign that began with a special screening of “Half the Sky” in 2012.

The film “Kind Hearted Woman,” directed by David Sutherland, is a special two-part series that illuminates the issue of child sexual abuse on Native American reservations as seen through the eyes of a young Oglala Sioux woman determined to forge a new and better life for herself and her two children. Viewers first meet 32-year-old Robin Charboneau as she trudges across North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation in minus-eight-degree weather, returning home after a 20-day stay in rehab. “Now I’m sober, and I’m really, really scared I’m going to start drinking again.” The series follows Robin and her family over the next three years as she confronts the aftereffects of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child and fights to keep her family together. Her difficult journey includes an arduous custody battle with her ex-husband over their two children, Darian and Anthony – all while pursuing her dream of a college degree and a career as a social worker. The two-part film will air on the WORLD channel on April 18-19 at 8 p.m. WORLD is available on broadcast KUAS 27-3, Comcast 203 and Cox 83. For information on the film, visit www.pbs.org.

In conjunction with the film “Kind Hearted Woman,” AZ Illustrated Science will feature a three-part series on addiction during the month of April. In this special series, AZPM mental health reporter Gisela Telis introduces Sheila Claw-Starr, co-founder of the culture-based One Sacred Nation Healing program for recovery; Edward Grijalva, a counselor who brought culturally appropriate care to one Tucson addiction treatment center; and Briana Miller, a young woman on her own journey of recovery. The three-part series airs on AZ Illustrated Science on Tuesdays, April 2, 9 and 16 at 6:30 p.m. and online at azpm.org.

UA@Work is produced by University Communications

Marshall Building, Suite 100. 845 N. Park Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719 (or) 
P.O. Box 210158B, Tucson, AZ 85721

T 520.621.1877  F 520.626.4121

Feedback University Privacy Statement 

2024 © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona