Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Campus: Dayton
Location: Building 7 Tartan Marketplace, Conference Room 7006ABC
This film profiles the precarious space of single room occupancy hotels (aka SROs) as a private stop-gap measure to keep families and vulnerable individuals off the streets in the most expensive city in the country, San Francisco. Filmed over six years, this feature-length documentary looks at inequality in San Francisco through the lens of five residents as they fight to stay housed. A single mom in Chinatown; a blind songwriter fighting harassment and eviction; a former couple in recovery living together to co-parent their six year old son; a graffiti artist painting murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood; and a determined mother searching for her runaway daughter, tell their stories. While their stories are unique, their attempts to break free of cyclical traumas and crushing structural forces is a universal story whose outcome will foretell the future of the American city.
Join Sinclair professor, Katherine R. Rowell, Ph.D., for a discussion and screening of this 2023 documentary directed by Kevin Duncan Wong, Kar Yin Tham, Todd Sills.
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Campus: Dayton
Location: Building 7 Tartan Marketplace, Conference Room 7006ABC
This film profiles the precarious space of single room occupancy hotels (aka SROs) as a private stop-gap measure to keep families and vulnerable individuals off the streets in the most expensive city in the country, San Francisco. Filmed over six years, this feature-length documentary looks at inequality in San Francisco through the lens of five residents as they fight to stay housed. A single mom in Chinatown; a blind songwriter fighting harassment and eviction; a former couple in recovery living together to co-parent their six year old son; a graffiti artist painting murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood; and a determined mother searching for her runaway daughter, tell their stories. While their stories are unique, their attempts to break free of cyclical traumas and crushing structural forces is a universal story whose outcome will foretell the future of the American city.
Join Sinclair professor, Katherine R. Rowell, Ph.D., for a discussion and screening of this 2023 documentary directed by Kevin Duncan Wong, Kar Yin Tham, Todd Sills.