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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CCP Wins Regional Emmy Award for HIV/AIDS DocumentaryBALTIMORE — A documentary co-produced by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs (CCP) won an Emmy Award Saturday night at a gala event in Washington, DC. The 29-minute documentary "HIV Positive Voices" received the award for the Best Documentary aired in 2003 by a local television station in the National Capital/Chesapeake Bay Region, including Virginia, Maryland and DC. The Emmys are the highest honor bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. CCP and Stuart Television Productions of Concord, MA, co-produced this documentary, which will also be recognized at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok this July, and featured in an exhibit by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency in Times Square, NYC, this October. James Williams, associate director of CCP, and Charles Stuart of Stuart Productions received the award. HIV Positive Voices allows four Baltimore residents living with HIV to tell their stories, including how they got infected and how HIV/AIDS impacts their lives. One segment focuses on Kimberly Smolen, who details a path of self-destruction that stemmed from her discovery that she was HIV positive from a brief relationship in college. Another segment portrays Rickeena Free, a teenager who was infected perinatally. Baltimore is home to one of the highest AIDS rates in the nation, ranking third in reported AIDS cases per 100,000 population. It is estimated that someone becomes infected with HIV every eight hours in Baltimore. For more information, please visit www.hivpositivevoices.org or contact Kim Martin at 410 659-6140. |
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