Join UCF Victim Services, the Victim Service Center of Central Florida, and a panel of professionals to screen and discuss the documentary film
Brave Miss World. Don't miss your chance to see the award winning film, ask questions, and hear from a survivor, advocate, therapist, and law enforcement representative. The free
movie showing is open to the UCF community and general public.
About the Film Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was abducted and raped in Milan, Italy two
months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she’s ready to
talk about it – and to encourage others to speak out. Now a globe-trotting victims’
advocate, Linor encourages others to stand against sexual violence by putting an
end to their silence. She travels to speak with teens in South Africa, where girls
are statistically more likely to be raped than educated. She visits U.S. college
campuses where women describe a campus culture that fails to take assaults
seriously. From rape crisis centers worldwide, to Hollywood’s living rooms, Linor
is met with emotional support, but the advocacy work causes her own trauma to
resurface. When she attends a celebrity rape trial that hits too close to home, she
suffers a breakdown and symptoms of PTSD. In searching for something to
ease her pain, Linor turns to Orthodox Judaism. "It's like losing a daughter," her
secular mother laments. "But better than alcohol, anorexia, bulimia, or so many
other crises that can happen to victims." Linor returns to Italy for the first time
since her rape, in an attempt to face her fears and to find the prosecutor who
collaborated with Israeli authorities to arrest the serial rapist. While there, in an
extraordinary twist of fate, she meets up with another woman raped by the same
man in eerily identical circumstances. For victims of sexual assault, the journey
toward wholeness never ends; still, Linor Abargil, the BRAVE MISS WORLD,
continues her unflinching efforts to keep the nightmares at bay.
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