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Frontier : People of the Barrio

Brian Moser
1980 United Kingdom 53 minutes Spanish

One million people live in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s main harbour, and more than half of them in bamboo sheds.Six people talk of their lives with their families in the barrio. When they settled down, there were no roads, no electricity or running water, no dump collecting system, and they had no legal right to ownership.

Production :
ATV Associated TeleVision Network Ltd
Editing :
Julian Ware; David Leighton
Sound :
Ioin Mc Cann
Photography :
Ivan Strasburg