After playing like gangbusters (or more apropos, like ghetto blasters) for the past two weekends at the The Metrograph (grabbing $60,000 and change), Diego Echeverria’s lost 1984 film has unexpectedly landed a distribution deal. Oscilloscope will ensure that Los Sures gets shown theatrically.
Gist: Echeverria’s film probes the residents of the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, pre-gentrification. Poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources are the backbone of a complex portrait that 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.
Worth Noting: Rediscovered in 2007, the film has become a cornerstone program of the Williamsburg arts nonprofit Union Docs (see trailer below for “Living Los Sures”)
Do We Care?: We’re only Monday and this is already the feel good story of the week. We look forward to this anthropological film treat.
