For all the fans of Henry Chalfant (Style Wars) – he’s got a new documentary “Flyin’ Cut Sleeves” due out October 20 – its about infamous Bronx street gang, Presidents. From the press release: Rita Fecher who co-produced this film – taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders’ families and began to document their lives. She return’s after twenty years to see what had become of her old friends & has she found that they had stayed in the community of their youth, that they were deeply committed to improving conditions there and that they were engaged in helping their own children survive in the hazardous street environment.
here’s a clip from the film: