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.