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East LA Interchange /

"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, Ja...

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Other Authors: Mills, Christine Louise (Screenwriter), Warthen, Gretchen (director of photography.), Feldman, Michael (Sound engineer) (composer (expression)), Pacheco, Raúl, 1969- (composer (expression)), Trejo, Danny, 1944- (Narrator)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English, with optional English closed captioning and optional Spanish subtitles.
Published: [Culver City, Calif.] : Bluewater Media, [2015]
Subjects:
Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
Urbanization > California > Los Angeles.
Gentrification > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnic neighborhoods > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Gentrification.
Urbanization.
California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles > Boyle Heights.
Feature films > United States.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:"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's website.
Item Description: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.)
Physical Description:1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC, all regions; widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Awards:Best Feature Film, New Urbanism Film Festival; Audience Award, Downtown Film Festival LA; Jury Award, Frozen River Film Festival; Award of Excellence, IndieFEST Film Awards.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Gretchen Warthen ; editor, Christine Louise Mills ; original music, Michael Feldman, Raul Pacheco.