Details

Subject(s)

• Urbanization—California—Los Angeles [Browse]
• Gentrification—California—Los Angeles [Browse]
• Ethnic neighborhoods—California—Los Angeles [Browse]
• Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)—History [Browse]

Production company

• Bluewater Media [Browse]

Publisher

• Bluewater Media [Browse]

Film director

• Kalin, Betsy [Browse]

Film producer

• Bishop, Vanessa Luna [Browse]
• Mills, Christine Louise [Browse]
• Warthen, Gretchen [Browse]

Screenwriter

• Mills, Christine Louise [Browse]

Editor of moving image work

• Mills, Christine Louise [Browse]

Director of photography

• Warthen, Gretchen [Browse]

Composer (expression

• Feldman, Michael (Sound engineer) [Browse]
• Pacheco, Raúl, 1969- [Browse]

Narrator

• Trejo, Danny, 1944- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Documentary films [Browse]
• Nonfiction films [Browse]
• Feature films [Browse]
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired [Browse]

Medium/​Support

• 4 3/4 in.
• stamping rdapm

Summary note

"East LA Interchange tells the story of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights, the oldest neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Targeted by government policies, real estate laws, and California planners, this quintessential immigrant neighborhood survived racially restrictive housing covenants, Japanese-American Internment, Federal redlining policies, lack of political representation, and the building of the largest and busiest freeway interchange system in the nation, the East L.A. Interchange. The documentary explores how the freeways -- a symbol of Los Angeles ingrained in America&s popular imagination -- impact Boyle Heights& residents: literally, as an environmental hazard and structural blockade and figuratively, as a conversational interchange about why the future of their beloved community should matter to us all."--Publisher website.

Notes

• Originally produced as a documentary film in 2015.
• Wide screen.
• Bonus feature s: East L.A. Classic football game (1:46 mins.) -- Panel discussion at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU (16:04 mins.) -- Panel discussion at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (12:31 mins.)

Creation/​Production credits

Cinematography, Gretchen Warthen ; editor, Christine Louise Mills ; original music, Michael Feldman, Raul Pacheco.

System details

DVD; NTSC, all regions; widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Narrator, Danny Trejo ; featuring: Will.i.am, Father Greg Boyle, Josefina Lopez, Xavi Moreno, Don Hodes, Tom Rawlings, Momo Yashima, George J. Sanchez, Mollie Wilson Murphy, Oscar Flores, Leo Frumkin, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Laura Pulido, Floyd Jeter Jr., Richard Wright Ph. D., Roy Yoshioka, Cedrick Shimo, Saul Ines, Evelyn Waterman, Harriet Rochlin, Gilbert Estrada, Marisela R. Chavez, Frank Villalobos, José Huizar, Kenneth Wyrick, Diana del Pozo-Mora, Susan Marshall, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Candy Tanamachi, Dian Johnson Harrison, Marsha Maestas-Vasquesz, Nancy P. Romero, Howard Shorr, Diane Sayrizi, Leonardo López, Miguel Meneses, Sandra Nava.

Language note

In English with optional English and Spanish subtitles.

Contents

• Everybody lived here: multiculturalism & racially restrictive covenants (7:43 mins.)
• Our friends were gone: Japanese American internment (6:12 mins.)
• Largest Jewish community west of Chicago & White flight (4:38 mins.)
• The spirit in Boyle Heights cannot be broken by California planners: East L.A. interchange (6:04 mins.)
• McCarthyism & a more radical neighborhood (1:53 mins.)
• Edward R. Roybal's election: a voice in city hall (3:16 mins.)
• 1968 student walkouts: it was about more than civil rights (7:00 mins.)
• Barrio means neighborhood: stereotypes of gangs & violence (4:28 mins.)
• Gentrification & community activism: comité de la esperanza (5:38 mins.)
• Boyle Heights renaissance: what will the future hold? (10:04 mins.)

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Other title(s)

East Los Angeles interchange

OCLC

959246041

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