East End Forever (French: L'Est pour toujours) is a 2011 Quebec documentary film about seven young people from the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of Montreal, written and directed by Carole Laganière.
Proulx-Roy and Jean-Roch Beauregard, having spent time in youth centers and reform schools, are both still seeking their paths in life.
In 2003, Carole Laganière created the film East End Kids (Vues de l’est) to document the lives of seven children, aged eight to twelve, who were being raised in the low income Montreal neighbourhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
The reviewer writes that the subjects "discuss their lives and problems with remarkable frankness," and that while the film's tone is occasionally depressing as the viewer learns that some of the subjects are repeating the patterns seen eightyears earlier, the director "captures their stories with heart, leaving you wishing for a large-scale project such as Apted’s to come out of this—and hoping that these kids somehow turn out okay.
"[1] Le Cinema wrote that the film was "...touchant et révélateur, s'intitule et il rappelle au tournant le brio de plusieurs documentaires québécois," (...touching and revealing, and seen as brilliant of the several extant Quebec documentaries) and after expanding on the individuals whose lives are being documented, concluded "En espérant que la cinéaste renoue avec ses sujets dans cinq ou dix ans, un peu comme XV le fait périodiquement dans sa série «Up»" (it is hoped that the filmmaker returns to his subjects in another five or ten years, giving them the regular coverage as has Michael Apted for the subjects of the Up Series).