MEMORIALIZE

A short documentary about man who has died in the Tenderloin and a local pastor, with a mission to honor the lives of those expected to be forgotten, giving him one final send off.

A man has died in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood in San Francisco where the average life expectancy is 20 years less than the city average. A local pastor, with a mission to honor the lives of those expected to be forgotten, presides over the memorial of the man in the SRO (public-housing building) he lived and died in. A community, all too familiar with their own mortality, gathers to give their neighbor one final send-off.

Director: Brenton Gieser