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Sunshine Hotel

Just decades ago, flophouses in New York housed nearly 25,000 men living on the margins of society. Today few remain. Filmmaker Michael Dominic takes his camera behind the doors of the Sunshine Hotel, one of the few remaining affordable refuges for the destitute and out of luck, a world that has seemingly stood still for more than eight decades. Here the hotel residents live in tiny four-by-six-foot cubicles crowned by a ceiling of chicken wire. Focusing on several of the Sunshine’s denizens – including a transgender woman saving all her money for additional surgeries and a hotel manager who doubles as its resident philosopher – Dominic presents a non-judgmental snapshot of a diverse group of characters as memorable as the characters at Harry Hope’s bar in Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”

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Sunshine Hotel

February 10, 2001
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Cast (8)

Nathan Smith
Narrator (voice)/Self
Kasmir
Self
Vic Kosa
Self
Kerry
Self

Crew (13)

Directing

Writing

Production

Laleh Khadivi
Associate Producer

Sound

Alex Battles
Music Supervisor
Amanda Aronczyk
Sound Editor
Rob Rapley
Sound Mixer

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Crew

Michael Dominic
Cinematography
Nathan Smith
Additional Music

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