East LA Interchange film screening & discussion

This award-winning documentary follows the evolution of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights from multiethnic to predominately Latino. The film shows how Boyle Heights survived the building of the largest and busiest freeway interchange system in North America and now faces another threat, gentrification. Following the screening there will be a Q&A with director Betsy Kalin.

East LA Interchange features narration by Danny Trejo (Machete) and interviews with will.i.am (The Black Eyed Peas), Father Greg Boyle (Homeboy Industries), and Josefina López (Real Women Have Curves) as well as an original song by Raul Pacheco (Ozomatli).

Sponsored by Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Dean of the College, Dean of Students, Film and Media Culture, Political Science, History of Art and Architecture, and Geography