EVENT DETAILS

"East LA Interchange" Film Screening and Director's Q&A

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.

Reception at 4:00 pm
Screening at 5:00 pm
McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070)
Free and open to the public

Q and A with filmmaker Betsy Kalin following the screening

Event sponsored by the Visual Studies Program, Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative, the Department of Planning, Policy & Design, and the Department of Chicano Latino Studies. The reception is sponsored by the Architecture and Urban Studies Research Cluster.