From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I'm singing across from a young man who, in addition to being a style icon,

rocking the super sweet Jordans is the starring co-writer

of one of the coolest movies that come out this year.

The last black man in San Francisco,

I'm speaking to Jimmy Fales.

Jimmy, thanks so much for being here.

Oh, yeah, thank you for having me, man.

I love NPR.

Oh, this is an honor.

Oh, I love having you here. But first of all, talk to me about the title because it's such a great title. And the title of the short was different from this, right? Yeah, well, the short, it didn't

really have too much to do with, you know, we wanted to kind of tie in me and the grandpa and

printers who was like the inspiration for Montgomery's character in the actual film. We wanted to

kind of tie them together, but we were mainly trying to raise money for this feature film when we even did that. So we just shot that to kind of

show them what we were, you know, just show them what we could do sort of thing as first-time

filmmakers. So, but the title, it just was, you know, it's just a, you know, just trying to shed a

little bit of light on how it's losing color, you know, because that's part of what makes San Francisco great is it's such a melting pot of so many different people, but specifically

the black population is dwindling more so than any other population in that city. So, and we're a

big part of why San Francisco is the way it is, too. So we got to, we got to shed some light on that.

Yeah, yeah. And just as you've been growing up, you've been seeing that change really taking impact.

Oh, yeah.

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