Victoria

Victoria is a documentary short about an old piano (Victoria) and the people who play her. Located in the St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco, Victoria is visited and played daily by many of San Francisco's homeless and low-income population. Although being out of tune, missing keys, having broken pedals, and just over all being beat up, Victoria, as one guest says, "is just like us, she may be all broken but, she still plays, she still has a melody." An old upright grand that has physically seen a better day and has a mostly unknown history, Victoria, it could be argued, has never sounded so good. This is one afternoon in the life of Victoria.

Produced and Directed by Charles Sommer with San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking

Special thanks to the guests of the St. Anthony Dining Room

Layout and design by Ryan Khavari

Copyright 2007 Charles Sommer/Root Nor Wing

For more information on Victoria or the St. Anthony Foundation visit www.victoriathemovie.com

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• St. Anthony Foundation
• St. Anthony's
• Dining Room
• Film Festival
• Short
• Documentary
• San Francisco
• Tenderloin
• Nonprofit
• Bay Area
• SF
• Music
• Piano
• Victoria

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Love it.