Join Human Rights Watch and Causecast for a documentary screening of the new film, Tapologo, which was featured at the 2009 Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Food and beverages will be served prior to the screening.
About the film:
Tapologo tells a local story with global relevance. It’s an up-beat narrative, that moves from squalor and degradation to dignity and hope. HIV infected women are portrayed as protagonists of their own healing process, not as victims.
In Tapologo, the fight against AIDS unfolds as a community project mobilizing a network of retired nurses, social workers, doctors, religious leaders ostracized by the official church, alongside ex-sex workers and the patients themselves.
In sub-Saharan Africa the Catholic Church’s official doctrine on the use of condoms has had a huge negative impact. Aware of the problem, Bishop Kevin Dowling questions the Church’s official stance and is a co-founder of the Tapologo.
The directors have used a language that allowed them to follow the daily life of some of the women from the Tapologo network, and at the same time contextualize the situation of thousands of black women in South Africa.
Don’t forget your $10 donation payable at the door!
RSVP to losangelesnetwork@hrw.org.
For more information on the film, check out: http://www.tapologofilm.com/
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