Olympusat to premiere La Mujer de la Esclavina, The Other Barrio


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Joseph O'Halloran

| 14 April 2016




TV network provider Olympusat is to premiere two key films on its Gran Cine and Ultra Film Spanish-language movie networks for the US Latino audience.



olympusatOlympusat has a package of originally produced and recently released blockbusters from México, Latin America, and the US in their original Spanish-language format. Its Gran Cine service — available in the US on Verizon FiOS, RCN, ACA and Choice Cable — is to premiere La Mujer de la Esclavina, while the Ultra Film HD movie network will debut The Other Barrio.

La Mujer de la Esclavina tells the story of Carmen, a seamstress who in the midst of preparations for the Quasimodo feast, witnesses her family’s atmosphere broken after the arrival of her husband, Juan’s, ex-wife, who he blames for the death of their son. “The idea for making this film comes from a story I read in the newspaper about a teenage mother who went out one night and left her baby alone near the paraffin stove and, upon returning, she found part of the house burnt and her baby dead, unfortunately,” explained the director Alfonso Gacitua.

Directed by Dante Betteo, and based on the short story with the same name by Alejandro Murguia, The Other Barrio is a fictionalised account of true events, set against the current epidemic of evictions and gentrification. It follows investigator Roberto Morales as he sifts through a suspicious and fatal fire in a residential hotel in San Francisco's rapidly gentrifying Mission District, and finds himself face to face with murder in the streets, corruption at City Hall and his own personal demons.