West Side Familia

New York City-based filmmaker Taylor Hosking’s debut documentary feature follows the story of La West Side Familia, a long-established Puerto Rican-led motorcycle crew and community care group grappling with the preservation of their public traditions and cultural identity in the hyper-gentrified neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. At once cinematic, joyful, and politically urgent, it is both a love letter to a disappearing New York and a living archive of the people determined to keep its spirit alive.

Centered around a legendary neighborhood biker crew and advocacy group founded in the 1970s, West Side Familia explores how communities protect memory, public space, and identity in the face of displacement. Through archival footage, intimate present-day vérité, and conversations with elders who lived the history firsthand, the film uncovers stories of resistance, celebration, and survival that connect the Upper West Side to broader movements across New York and the Puerto Rican diaspora