The Other Barrio
- "The Other Barrio"
- *Produced by Louis F. Dematteis and Dante BetteoDirected by Dante Betteo*
- The City is changing…neighborhood-by-neighborhood,
- block-by-block, bar-by-bar -- change with it or fight fire with fire.
- *STARRING RICHARD MONTOYA, VERONICA VALENCIA,*
- *PEARL WONG, GEOFF HOYLE & ALEJANDRO MURGUIA*
- As if ripped from today's headlines reporting fires, evictions and protests
- in the street, "The Other Barrio" follows housing inspector Roberto Morales
- (Richard Montoya) as he investigates the suspicious circumstances of a
- fatal residential hotel fire in San Francisco’s rapidly gentrifying Latino
- Mission District and finds himself face-to-face with murder in the streets,
- corruption at City Hall and the mysterious Sofia Nido (Veronica Valencia),
- a beautiful but dangerous flame from his past. This independent Noir
- feature, based on a short story by San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro
- Murguia, takes viewers deep into neighborhoods and communities seldom seen on film, while addressing the timely issues of gentrification and
- displacement of low-income communities along the way.
- *“Bravo!”*—Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- *A noir tale of forced neighborhood metamorphosis, as though, as it is
- said, the story were“ripped from the headlines.”*—Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle
- *"The Other Barrio" is a production of SF Noir Films.*
- Produced by Louis F. Dematteis and Dante Betteo
- Directed by Dante Betteo
- Director of Photography Andrew Crighton
- Production Design by Rene Yanez
- Music and Sound Design by Greg Landau
- Based on a Story by SF Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia
- Adapted for the Screen by Dante Betteo and Richard Montoya