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All on our show today. Well, box city is a documentary about a homeless encampment that shows how many homeless filipinos survive poverty in the midst of the bay areas vast wealth. With me right now is the executive producer for this project through the filipino channel, henni espinosa, who is an Emmy Awardwinning documentary filmmaker for her first documentary with the filipino channel, the filipino champions of soma. Welcome to the show. Henni espinosa thank you for having me. Robert give us sort of an overview of your film, as well as what was sort of the inspiration for doing it . Henni well, box city is a story about a group of homeless filipinos in San Francisco. Theyre young, in their 20s and 30s. Theyre legal immigrants here. Some of them have jobs, but the thing is that they live in boxes, small boxes, and theyre, you know, they rely on each other for support. And, you know, these people actually met on the streets when they were, you know, searching for places to live. And so

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