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"Madams of the Barbary Coast" is an award winning documentary about the Madams, prostitutes, and other women pioneers who settled the wild frontier town of early San Francisco.
Recently featured as part of San Francisco's PBS "Women's History Month," the documentary examines the role of women from all stratus of society and diverse cultures- Chinese, Black, Asian, Latin American, French, and Southern that participated in San Francisco's infamous red-light district. Using rare archival photographs and interviews with renown Western historians, writers, clergyman, and sex educators, the film explores the women's struggle with immigration, religion, civil rights, and economic and cultural hardships. Told through a series of poignant and touching stories of passion, intrigue, murder, sex and redemption, the documentary uncovers how these courageous female entrepreneurs and women of "questionable virtue" helped bring culture, beauty and a vestige of civilization to the most sinful, and notoriously depraved city in the frontier West.
Directed by Michael Rohde. Produced by Venus Oriane.
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