Sunshine Hotel

The documentary is set in a hotel in New York. The Sunshine Hotel is a cheap place to stay. Places like it were once common. Close to twenty five thousand men lived in such hotels in the city. Few of them are left today. The rooms are very small. Each is about four feet by six. Instead of a ceiling there is chicken wire. The people staying there are poor. Many of them have nowhere else to go. The documentary follows several of them closely. One of the residents is a transgender woman. She is saving money for her surgeries. The hotel manager also enters the account. Nathan Smith and Tony Bell appear in the ninety eight minute documentary. It is an American production Michael Dominic finished in 2001.