Los Sures

Directed by Diego Echeverria

July 22 | 7 pm

More than 20,000 Latinos, mostly Puerto Rican, live in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn (locally known as Los Sures), one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. In Los Sures, painted sidewalk memorials attest to gang violence, but hopes and dreams persist. Through the stories of five residents, filmmaker Echeverria offers a cross-section of this beleaguered community. Twenty-year-old Tito supports his wife and baby daughter by stealing and stripping cars. Marta, a single mother raising five daughters on welfare, is filmed in a supermarket attempting to stretch her inadequate food-stamp allowance. Ana Maria, an elderly resident, has raised seven children in Los Sures. Worried about a wayward son, she finds solace in spiritualism. Cuso, a 42-year-old construction worker, helps neighbors find jobs when funds become available for building renovations. Evelyn, a single mother with two children, is a social worker for the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, a community-based organization. She expresses anger at drug dealers
who sell their wares in front of young people and is seen aiding tenants made homeless by fire.