The CareForce One Travelogues

A humorous and touching road tale, featuring artist Marisa Morán Jahn, her son Choco, and their buddy Anjum Asharia as they travel from their homes in NYC to Miami in a fifty-year old station wagon, called CareForce One. Meeting up with nannies, housekeepers, caregivers, and allies along the way, this series explores how care intersects with some of today's most pressing issues — immigration, the legacies of slavery, racial discrimination, and more. The series is part of the CareForce, a public art project supported by Sundance, Tribeca Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts that amplifies the voices of America's fastest growing workforce, caregivers. www.careforce.co

In New York City, Marisa, Choco and Anjum find themselves challenged by care and cars before they even leave. In Washington DC, they meet up with an advocate combating modern-day slavery, a trafficking survivor, and a historian at the National Museum of African American History and Culture to better understand the legacy of slavery and its connection to domestic work today. Afterwards, the team heads to North Carolina where they meet an elderly woman caring for her spouse who has Alzheimers and two death doulas whose card game provokes emotional reflection. Sputtering, Marisa, Choco, and Anjum push the car through the tollbooth in Miami. They meet a mutually supportive elderly couple and their team of caregivers before celebrating their journey and artwork at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

CareForce One Travelogues is produced by Marisa Morán Jahn (Studio REV-), Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Yael Melamede, directed by Marc Shavitz, and co-produced by Anjum Asharia. The project was created in collaboration with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and a network of allies championing a movement for quality, affordable care.