# Event Details - **Event Name**: "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us at Public Trust for a film screening of " Working Girls", followed by a conversation with the director.About this EventJoin us at Public Trust for Working Girls, a film screening and conversation on Monday, March 2, 2026 from 5:30pm-8:30pm about the invisible lives of women in India whose labor sustains their society. Following the screening, director Paromita Vohra will engage in conversation with scholar Bakirathi Mani.Presented by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with Public Trust and additional support from the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania.About the FilmWorking Girls (2025), directed by Paromita Vohra, is a vibrant, thought-provoking documentary that journeys across India to explore the often unseen worlds of women’s labor. From the bustling streets of Kolkata, Pune, and Mumbai to the sloping hills of Shillong, the temple town of Madurai, the fields of Latur, and cities including Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad, the film traces a wide social and geographic landscape. Through the lives of domestic workers, dancers, mothers, farmers, ASHA workers, surrogates, sex workers, union leaders, and grassroots organizers, it reveals the many forms of work that remain invisible yet are essential to everyday life.Blending sharp wit, rich music, and a deep engagement with the legal and historical forces shaping women’s lives, Working Girls challenges conventional ideas about what counts as work and whose labor is valued. The film brings humor and clarity to questions of gender, power, and visibility, while foregrounding the systems that structure care, reproduction, and survival. Directed by feminist filmmaker Paromita Vohra and created in collaboration with the Laws of Social Reproduction project, the documentary offers an urgent yet joyful portrait of resistance, resilience, and everyday survival—and invites audiences to rethink not only how we understand labor, but who is recognized as a worker.About the SpeakersParomita Vohra is a filmmaker, writer and committed antakshari player whose truth-telling, kinetic, and sensuous films, online videos, art installations and television programming explore feminism, gender, desire, urban life and popular culture. She is the director of several documentaries including Unlimited Girls, Q2P, Where’s Sandra?, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Partners in Crime and most recently Working Girls. She has written the film Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters, the comic Priya’s Mirror, the play Ishqiya Dharavi Ishtyle and a weekly newspaper column Paronormal Activity, which she wrote for 15 years. In 2015 she founded Agents of Ishq, a digital platform which has transformed conversations on sex, love, and desire in India.Bakirathi Mani is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Asian American Studies Program. Mani is also a curator of South Asian diasporic visual cultures, and the author of Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America, and Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/philadelphia/working-girls-film-screening-and-qanda-with-director-paromita-vohra/100001982392208460 - **Event Categories**: Entertainment, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Philadelphia - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: Public Trust - **lat**: 39.9543492 - **long**: -75.20350359999999 - **full address**: Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/0b3fd40255a9477979f1f267b88e42a11e47c182528663cf0880ead25525e0ef-rimg-w1200-h675-dc191912-gmir.jpg?v=1770372097 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra being held? - **A:** "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra takes place on Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra? - **A:** "Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra is organized by CARGC. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": ""Working Girls" Film Screening and Q&A with Director Paromita Vohra", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/0b3fd40255a9477979f1f267b88e42a11e47c182528663cf0880ead25525e0ef-rimg-w1200-h675-dc191912-gmir.jpg?v=1770372097", "startDate": "2026-03-02", "endDate": "2026-03-02", "url": "https://allevents.in/philadelphia/working-girls-film-screening-and-qanda-with-director-paromita-vohra/100001982392208460", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Public Trust", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "4017 Walnut Street", "postalCode": "19104", "addressLocality": "Philadelphia", "addressRegion": "PA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "39.9543492", "longitude": "-75.20350359999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us at Public Trust for a film screening of \" Working Girls\", followed by a conversation with the director.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-09", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-02", "validFrom": "2026-04-09", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/philadelphia/working-girls-film-screening-and-qanda-with-director-paromita-vohra/100001982392208460" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-09", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/philadelphia/working-girls-film-screening-and-qanda-with-director-paromita-vohra/100001982392208460", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "CARGC", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/cargc/19167953" } ] } ] ```