Name: Flyin' Cut Sleeves
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1993-02-05
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 4.5

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FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.

Theatrical

Feb 5, 1993

Keywords

street gang empowerment ghetto gang swastika poverty revolutionary club bronx, new york city black spades unity boys club denim troubled youth african american colors black urban survival south bronx puerto rican community organizing