10th Anniversary Q&A and Screening of, 'The Other Barrio'
Sun, Jun 15
|The Roxie Theater
The City is changing…neighborhood-by-neighborhood, block-by-block, bar-by-bar — change with it or fight fire with fire.
Time & Location
Jun 15, 2025, 5:50 PM – 8:30 PM
The Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
About the event
The award-winning noir feature from Producers Louis F. Dematteis and Dante Betteo, Directed by Dante Betteo, Producer/Director Dante Betteo,Producer Louis Dematteis, actors Richard Montoya, Veronica Valencia and Alejandro Murguia will be in person for a Q&A!
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 Emeritus 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…