Film Screening: Home Is a Hotel - Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Join us Sunday, February 16th at 2pm for the fourth film in the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. This free screening will feature the documentary "Home Is a Hotel", followed by a panel discussion with Kevin Wong (Director, Producer, and Co-Cinematographer) and Kar Yim Tham (Co-Director and Producer), moderated by the Peabody Film Festival Founder Brent Zaffino-Lambert. Special thanks to the Fox Theatre for their partnership in bringing this program to the Canton Theatre.

The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. This screening is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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 though intimate portraits of their residents filmed over six 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 songwriter fighting harassment and eviction, an ex-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 the lives within the four walls of rentals as tiny as 80 square feet.