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East LA Interchange Gets Boyle Heights Premiere

East L.A. Interchange, the film we told you about last year, will have its first Boyle Heights Screening later this month.

The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will have a free special event for the community at the historic Breed Street Shul in Boyle Heights. The screening will be followed by a panel with the film's subjects: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, Leo Frumkin, Don Hodes, Momo Yashima and director Betsy Kalin and producer Ruby Gómez, who is a Boyle Heights native.

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Date: Sunday, May 22
Time: 3pm
Place: Breed Street Shul, 247 N Breed Street, L.A., CA 90033
Info: http://lajfilmfest.org/

Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Date: Tuesday, May 24
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Laemmle's Town Center, 17200 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91316
Info: http://lajfilmfest.org/

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