Press

The Frisc
Kelsey Oliver

For a long, intimate look at a significant part of San Francisco, a new documentary is essential viewing. Home Is a Hotel, which screened last ...

SF Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson

We all know there’s an affordable housing crisis in San Francisco. Many struggling people turn to cramped single-room-occupancy hotels to try to survive. Filmmaker Kevin ...

Kqed
Emma Slivers

“Before coming here from China, I thought that American homes were large, beautiful and luxurious, from the television,” says Christina, a mother who’s newly single ...

Indiewire
Ryan Lattanzio

McBaine Bay Area Documentary Feature Award Home Is a Hotel Directed by Kevin Duncan Wong, Todd Sills + Kar Yin Tham (USA) Jury Statement: “There ...

Eat Drink Films
C.J. Hirschfield

Director Kevin Duncan Wong first cut the film years ago as a short, which was very well received in 2015. Now expanded to feature length, ...

Berkeleyside
John Seal

Finally, Kevin Duncan Wong’s Home Is a Hotel (12:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, at CGV Cinemas San Francisco) is a Frederick Wiseman-style observational doc ...

SF Richmond Review
Noma Faingold

Directors Kevin Duncan Wong, Todd Sills and Kar Yin Tham spent five years (including during the height of the pandemic) following a handful of people ...

San Francisco Magazine
Kyrie Sismaet

Mark your calendars, as the 66th San Francisco International Film Festival is almost here, and its vast lineup of incredible films is more spectacular than ...

Kqed
Sarah Hotchkiss, Emma Slivers

This documentary from Kevin Duncan Wong, Tod Sills and Kar Yin Tham visits the diverse residents of San Francisco’s cramped, noisy and often vermin-filled SROs. ...