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Los Sures
In the early 1980s, Diego Echeverría took a 16mm camera into the streets of the Southside of Williamsburg, then a primarily Puerto Rican neighborhood and one of the city’s poorest, most crime-ridden areas. Still, amidst the urban blight, Echeverría finds a thriving street culture in which music, breakdancing, and graffiti abound.

Los Sures skillfully represents the challenges residents of the Southside faced: poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources. The complex portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community, showing the strength of their culture, their creativity, and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. Beautifully restored for the 30th anniversary premiere at the New York Film Festival, this documentary is an invaluable piece of New York City history.

“An authenticity that has been captured by no fiction film I’ve ever seen.”
– L.A. Weekly

“Both an invaluable record of pre-gentrification Brooklyn and an ode to a community’s resilience.”
– BAMcinématek

“See this neighborhood preserved in amber.”
– The Believer

“Trenchant and eye-opening.”
– The Hollywood Reporter

LOS SURES courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Los Sures and Living Los Sures distributed by UnionDocs Center for Documentary Arts.

www.livinglossures.com

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