East L.A. Interchange follows the evolution of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights, the oldest neighborhood in East Los Angeles from multiethnic to predominately Latino and a cradle of Mexican-American culture in the U.S. The documentary tells the story of how one neighborhood managed to survive the construction of the largest and busiest freeway interchange in the nation and explores the shifting face of community in the United States today arguing why it should matter to us all.
Direction
Kalin weaves archival gold with present-day grit.
Writing
Trejo's narration hits like a poem you didn't expect.
Director
Betsy Kalin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The East LA Interchange handles over 500,000 vehicles daily—making it one of the busiest in the world, yet most drivers never know what was erased to build it.
Boyle Heights was once called the 'Ellis Island of the West'—this doc captures one of the last surviving Mexican-American neighborhoods that actually fought back against 1950s-60s urban renewal.
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