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Director

Susana Aikin
Carlos Aparicio

Screenplay

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The Salt Mines 1990

Documentary/

BUDGET - Not Available

Status - Released

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".