The Salt Mines
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- Documentary
Overview
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as "The Salt Mines".
Keywords
- drug addiction
- woman director
- hiv
- prostitute
- poverty
- transvestite
- substance abuse
- crack addict
- squatter
- homeless
- crack cocaine
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 1, 1990
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Frameline,Starfish Films,Starfish
- Director
- Carlos Aparicio,Susana Aikin
- Producer
- Carlos Aparicio,Susana Aikin
- Music
- Elliott Sharp
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0137202