The Salt Mines

About The Salt Mines

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.

Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aikin directed The Salt Mines, a 1990 documentary film. Released in October 1990, it runs 47 minutes.

Ricardo takes the lead as Self (as Sara), Gigi as Self, and Giovanna as Self.

Shelv files it under drug addiction, poverty, homeless, and HIV. It streams on History Vault and OVID in the United States.

Monster, Megacities, and Ed Wood make useful companions to The Salt Mines, all filed under prostitute. It carries a NR rating.