ROMA screening

Start: Tuesday, March 12, 2019• 5:00 PM

Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar award-winning film Roma tells the story of Cleo, an indigenous woman who works as a live-in domestic worker for a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Though the film is set 50 years ago, the complexities of Cleo’s reality--the unsung heroism of her work, the duality of intimacy and distance within a family--are familiar to the more than 70 million domestic workers around the globe today.

Join the International Domestic Workers Federation and the National Domestic Workers Alliance for a special screening of Roma, preceded by a discussion with domestic worker leaders from around the world about the personal power of the film, and opportunities to join in their fight to win new protections for this long-invisible workforce.

5:00 pm Welcome Reception
5:45 pm Opening Remarks by Ford Foundation President Darren Walker & Panel Discussion
6:30 pm Screening

Featured Speakers:
Monica Ramirez, NDWA Gender Justice Campaigns Director
Elizabeth Tang, IDWF General Secretary
Marcelina Bautista, President, Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, Mexico
Ruth Kakame, Chairperson, Domestic Workers Section,
Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers

This event is co-hosted by the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.