Domino and relevance - plus some important thanks

You might wonder why a drama about someone in Spain suffering through the economic crisis there would be relevant to an American audience.

Well, wonder no more.

It has been estimated that.....

On the topic of hard times, our own San Francisco Bay Area has a major homeless population - in Silicon Valley, no less. There are some 7,500 homeless in that area, alone, many of them with full-time jobs. The working poor.

This is  largely because housing prices in Silicon Valley have skyrocketed. According to an article in EFE (a Spanish news service), rentals have gone up from $1,700 a month last year, to some $2,600 today. This has literally left many people out in the cold.

The City of San José recently broke up a huge homeless settlement, and metropolitan Los Angeles has between 38,000 and 45,000 homeless, depending upon which government statistics you trust most, those of the federal government or those of the City of Los Angeles.

New York City had 48,000 homeless in 2013.  San Francisco has about 10,000 while in Washintgon, D.C. there are about 7,000.  In all, it is estimated that there are over 3 million homeless people in the United States, many of them children.

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Some important thanks are due for their support of our American premiere of Domino: Caught in the Crisis (Dominó:  agarrado por la crisis). The release is being officially presented by the City of El Cerrito through its Arts and Culture Commission. Thank you El Cerrito. 

Another sponsor is the City of Richmond, through its Arts and Culture Commission. They are helping with publicity. Thanks to them, as well.

And of course thanks in advance to Rialto Cinemas Cerrito. We certainly couldn't do it without you!

Even more thanks to our fiscal sponsor, From the Heart Productions, and to César's Restaurant in Berkeley, who is the first donor of a prize for the raffle we'll hold at the screening - a $100 gift certificate for food and drink in their restaurant!