


Sat, Sep 28
|Clarion Performing Arts Center
Home is a Hotel (2023) by Todd Sills, Kar Yin Tham, Kevin Duncan Wong, Film Screening
Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution – cramped Single Room Occupancy units – impact the lives of those who live in them?
Time & Location
Sep 28, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Clarion Performing Arts Center, 2 Waverly Pl, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA
About the Event
Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco’s SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over five years. This character-driven, verité documentary immerses viewers in what it means to call a single room home in the heart of one of America’s richest cities. It’s the story of an immigrant single mom in Chinatown, a blind Latina librettist fighting harassment and eviction, a divorced couple in recovery co-parenting a six-year-old son, a graffiti artist who paints murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood, and a determined mother on a quest to find her runaway daughter all of them trying to better their lives within the four walls of rentals as tiny as 80 square feet.
With more than 3 decades combined experience in the film and television industry, the team behind HOME IS A HOTEL brings a breadth of experience ranging from award-winning documentary and narrative films,…