Oct 15, 2018
SFFILM
San Francisco, CA – SFFILM will present a special pre-release screening of Academy Award-winning master filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón’s much-anticipated upcoming film ROMA, Tuesday, October 23, 7:00 pm at the Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street). This early look at the sure-to-be awards contender will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s lead actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira.
“We cannot imagine a better venue than the Castro to host the San Francisco premiere of Alfonso Cuarón’s newest sumptuous cinematic masterpiece,” said SFFILM Executive Director Noah Cowan. “This experience only grows richer as we welcome two actors whose names might not yet be well known but represent two of the year’s most indelible performances.”
The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y tu mamá también), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. Cuarón’s first project since the groundbreaking Gravity in 2013, ROMA will be available in theaters and on Netflix later this year.
Tickets to this screening of ROMA are $13 for SFFILM members, $16 for the general public. Box office is open to SFFILM members now online at sffilm.org and opens for the general public 10:00 am Tuesday, October 16.
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SFFILM Presents
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SFFILM
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization with a mission to champion the world’s finest films and filmmakers through programs anchored in and inspired by the spirit and values of the San Francisco Bay Area. Presenter of the San Francisco International Film Festival (April 10-23, 2019), SFFILM is a year-round nonprofit organization delivering screenings and events to nearly 75,000 film lovers and media education programs to more than 12,000 students and teachers annually. In addition to its public programs, SFFILM supports the careers of independent filmmakers from the Bay Area and beyond with grants, residencies, and other creative development services. For more information visit sffilm.org.
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