The fastest growing segment of homeless population is women and children.
LAPD's project "La Llorona; Weeping women on Skid Row" addresses the crisis of an exploding population of women and children on Skid Row, and the lack of housing and other sevices for them in the Skid Row neighborhood.
Skid Row is a socially contrived neighborhood where social services for single men have traditionally been concentrated. No services for women have been in place on Skid Row, out of the feeling that it was so nasty a place that women should not be encouraged, through the availablity of services, to stay there.
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 Design by April Shell
by the Los Angeles Poverty Department
La Llorona, Weeping Women on Skid Row is based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona (the weeping woman), who wanders the earth in search of her lost / abandoned children . The legend becomes the through line for relating the personal journeys of the 14 men and women in the cast. The performance is composed of original movement, text and song. This collective creation, La Llorona, offers deeply felt, multiple perspectives and insights into the causes, as well as the personal struggles, of the most rapidly growing segment of the homeless population: women and children.
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"I've got to finish this business-contract for my boss. I really need
this job. Maybe, if I have time, I can type my son Brandon a letter."
Dear Brandon, just a few words to let you know that I miss you
immensely.
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Andrea, a young homeless mother and actress of the L.A.P.D. hopes to escape Skid Row and move to the northern California town where her son lives. Half documentary, half fiction film, this audiovisual project intends to be a positive intervention in Andrea's harsh life.
More about Jordi Ortega and the La Llorona documentary
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La Llorona of Skid Row