Thursday October 26, 2023 | 5:30 - 8:00pm

At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

Free or Suggested Donation | Register via Eventbrite

Join us for a community screening of Home Is a Hotel (2023), a feature-length documentary that examines inequality in San Francisco through the lens of five SRO residents as they fight to stay housed, followed by a discussion about how community shapes the TL with featured resident Sylvester Guard, historian Susan Stryker, activist Shavonne Allen, and filmmaker Kar Yin Tham.

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? 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. Winner of Documentary Feature Award & Audience Award at the 2023 SFFILM Festival!