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The Neighborhood

Residents of a rapidly changing neighborhood in Sacramento discuss challenges and solutions to the dynamic economic forces and transitioning racial demographics altering the face and nature of their community.

  • Quentin Lareau
    Director
  • Quentin Lareau
    Writer
  • Quentin Lareau
    Producer
  • Joany Titherington
    Key Cast
  • Dr. Jesus Hernandez
    Key Cast
  • Adrian Rehn
    Key Cast
  • Tom Sumpter
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 21, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1080p
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - UC Santa Cruz
  • Over-the-Rhine International Film Festival
    Cincinatti, OH
    United States
    July 8, 2021
    Best Short Documentary
  • Sacramento Film and Music Festival
    Sacramento, CA
    United States
    September 21, 2019
    World Premire
    Official Selection
  • Kansas City FilmFest International
    Kansas City, KS
    United States
    April 15, 2020
  • Alternating Currents Film Festival
    Davenport, IA
    United States
    August 27, 2020
  • Voices Rising Film Festival

    March 1, 2021
  • First-Time Filmmaker Sessions
    online
    May 24, 2020
Director Biography - Quentin Lareau

Quentin graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Film and Video Production with a concentration in Cinematography in 2007. He then worked in Los Angeles for ten years as a freelance Director of Photography and Gaffer shooting and lighting short films, music videos, web series, and branded content. In 2017 he decided to transition from solely shooting projects to also producing and directing them, and subsequently enrolled in UC Santa Cruz’s Social Documentation MFA. After graduating in 2019 he was hired as a part-time lecturer by UCSC and is excited to be teaching Video Production in the undergraduate Film and Digital Media program. He continues to apply his skills of storytelling through lighting and composition to the documentation of social injustice and specifically the institutions that perpetuate the oppression of marginalized communities. His work challenges both the institutions and the viewer, and specifically calls into question the viewers’ responsibilities and complicities through critiques of privilege.

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Director Statement

I started making The Neighborhood before I ever even considered Sacramento as a field site. For me, this film starts with the very apparent racial polarization in our country today. I started looking at racial segregation and racial distribution maps, and I wanted to tell a story about the persistence of racial segregation while many cities and our nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of passing the Fair Housing Act, which effectively ended legal discrimination in the sale or rental of property. But even in one of the nation’s most racially and economically diverse and integrated cities, the legacies of this structural violence persist. So I went to the neighborhood of Oak Park in Sacramento to document what the contemporary effects of segregation looked like, and I found a community very proud of itself and its history and deeply struggling with affordable housing and gentrification. The Neighborhood doesn’t answer all the questions I had when I started making it, but hopefully it gets the viewer to look at their own neighborhood and start to question how and why things are seemingly the way they are, and what role do they participate in?