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“’Tenderloin (2010 film)”’

Directed, photographed, and edited by	Michael Anderson

Produced by 					Sam Rider

Written by 					Ned Miller

Starring					Kurt Yaeger Tina Huang Jack Indiana Stephan Smith Collins Liz Rolfe

Music by					Eli Carlton-Pearson

Distributed by				Vanguard Cinema

Release date				July 2010

Running time				80 minutes

Country 					United States

“’Language’”					English

Tenderloin, shot, edited, and directed by Michael Anderson, produced by Sam Rider, and written by Ned Miller, was filmed on location in the San Francisco Tenderloin, where a lot of the city’s poor and mentally ill people live, and where crime rates are some of the city’s highest. Shot right on the streets using real people in addition to actors, it retains the unique mix of hope and despair that characterize this one-of-a-kind city within a city located only blocks away from the very different and better known San Francisco of tourists, shops, and cable cars.

“’Contents’”

1 Synopsis 2 Shooting locations 3 Cast and Characters 5 Reviews 3 References 4 External links

“’Synopsis’”

Ben Keegan, a wounded veteran of the Iraq war, comes to live in the hardscrabble San Francisco Tenderloin District out of desperation—the same reason a great many others go there. Plagued by unresolved anger and traumatic stress, he has lost his job and alienated his wife and small son, and can now find peace only at the bottom of a bottle. How he finds his way back from this condition, earns his place in the neighborhood as both friend and defender, and begins to heal his relationship with his son, form the core of this story about an often-voiceless segment of the city’s population in a place many people drive through but few really see.

“’Shooting Locations’”

Tenderloin was photographed on location in the San Francisco Tenderloin District itself, and many local volunteer actors appear in the film along with the main cast of professionals.

“’Cast and Characters’”

Kurt Yaeger as Ben Keegan

Tina Huang as Skyler

Jack Indiana as Robby

Stephan Smith Collins as Felicia

Liz Rolfe as Myrna

Charles Branklyn as Johnny

Glen Caspillo as Duke

Nick Scoggin as Buda

Richard Conti as Peter Novick

Byron Lambie as Owen

Aurora deBlas	as Tracy

Paul Rodrigues as Dickie

Stu Klitsner as Ben’s Father

Mark Truitt as Craig

Connie Mattson as Ben’s Mother

Amanda Huelse as Crystal

Cassandra Cass as Cassandra

“’References’” San Francisco Chronicle Oct 11, 2009 "Tenderloin" Marin Independent Journal Oct. 2, 2009 Feature "The human touch at Mill Valley Film Festival"

Here Magazine, Marin IJ Oct 2, 2008 Cover Story

Bay Area Reporter Oct. 8, 2009 Viva Mill Valley! Highlights from the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival

San Francisco Chronicle Nov 15, 2008 Article about "Tenderloin" lead actor Kurt Yaeger

American Chronicle, Nov 20, 2009

“’External Links’”

http://www.tenderloinmovie.com