KCETLink Airs New Episode of CCTV America’s Current
Affairs & Culture Magazine Show, ‘Full Frame’
New Episode Features Multi-Award Winning Actor & Filmmaker Forest Whitaker Detailing His Work to Promote Peace and Youth Empowerment
WHO:
KCETLink, the national independent public digital and broadcast network, presents a new episode of FULL FRAME, CCTV America’s new weekly series, which features human interest storytelling, enlightening dialogue and humanitarian issues embraced by leading cultural luminaries.
WHAT:
This week’s FULL FRAME sits down with multi-award winning actor/filmmaker Forest Whitaker. Whitaker works to promote peace in places that are overcome by armed conflict and empowering young people through his work.
As a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation, Whitaker works to prevent young people from becoming part of devastating cycles of violence.
He also co-founded the International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University, which works with urban communities to address cutting-edge issues and implement peace-building efforts.
In 2012, the humanist also launched his own organization, the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative.
The Initiative helps transform societies affected by destructive conflicts into safer and flourishing communities and aims to inspire people – and particularly youth – around the globe to engage in peace initiatives and conflict resolution.
Whitaker is now implementing programs in South Sudan, Uganda, and Mexico and he hopes to inspire people across the world to work toward global peace.
During the episode, Whitaker shared his childhood experiences that inspired him to get involved and the important lessons he’s learned in his efforts to promote peace and prevent conflict.
WHEN:
Friday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT
LINK TV (DirecTV 375, DISH Network 9410)
Sunday, Dec. 21, 4:30 p.m. PT
KCET (Southern California)
For more information on FULL FRAME, visit http://www.kcet.org/shows/full_frame/.
ABOUT KCETLINK MEDIA GROUP
KCETLink Media Group, formed by the merger between KCET and Link Media, is a national independent, nonprofit, digital and broadcast network that provides high-quality, culturally diverse programming designed to engage the public in innovative, entertaining and transformative ways. With a commitment to independent perspectives, smart global entertainment, local communities, and opportunities for engagement and social action, KCETLink depicts people and the world through a lens unavailable elsewhere in U.S. media. A viewer-supported 501(c)(3) organization, KCETLink content is distributed nationally via satellite on Link TV – DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410 – and on KCET in Southern and Central California via broadcast and cable, as well as through various digital delivery systems. For additional information about KCET and Link TV productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org or linktv.org.
ABOUT CCTV AMERICA
CCTV America began producing unique programming in the Americas about the Americas in February 2012. CCTV America is a division of CCTV News, a global English language news channel that reaches some 85 million viewers in more than 100 countries and territories. The channel reaches 35 million viewers in North America. Channel distribution includes Comcast-273 in Washington D.C. and Time Warner 134 in New York. Nationally it can be seen on the DISH Network 279.
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