The Salt Mines
The Salt Mines

The Salt Mines

6.0(1 votes)
1990
0h 47m
Documentary

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".

Production

Frameline, Starfish

Cast

Ricardo

Ricardo

Self (as Sara)

Gigi

Gigi

Self

Giovanna

Giovanna

Self

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