WOOD STREET
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Chosen brothers John and LaMonté, grapple with addiction, displacement and city bureaucracy as they try to save their long term community from eviction.
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John, 55, suffered a heart attack in March 2022, prompting him to get clean from crystal meth, and take on a leadership role in his community. He was born and raised in Oakland and has lived at Wood Street for the past six years.
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LaMonté, 50, was born and raised in Oakland and has lived at Wood Street for the past eight years. He and John consider each other brothers, and have stepped up as leaders and activists in their community, as they’ve fought the city and state against eviction.
WOOD STREET shows the lengths people will go to protect their community
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Caron Creighton (DIRECTOR) is an award winning journalist and filmmaker residing in the Bay Area. Her feature documentary Wood Street has received support from the 2023/24 SF Film FilmHouse Residency, the 2024 Big Sky Pitch, and the 2024 BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship. Wood Street won the 2025 Realscreen Pitch competition in Miami, and will participate in Black Public Media’s PitchBlack Forum in New York in April. She also earned this year's UFO x Peace is Loud Impact-Post residency, and is part of the Sundance Cultural Impact Residency inaugural cohort. Caron has worked for The Associated Press, AJ+ and The San Francisco Chronicle and has lectured at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported on the struggles faced by Eritrean migrants in Israel, and West African migration through Latin America. Much of her work is focused on displacement within the African diaspora, as informed by her identity.
Estevan Padilla (PRODUCER) is a Mexican-American filmmaker and photographer from Eagle River, Alaska. He is 1/2 of LvL Films, a production company based in San Francisco that focuses on branded content and feature films. He started his career working on major motion pictures for Marvel, Warner Brothers, HBO, and numerous other studios. From there, he turned his attention to the commercial world where he worked as a commercial producer for many of the world's largest brands. More recently, he has shifted his focus towards work that aligns with his values, including socially conscious projects all around the world. As a producer, his first film, The 50, debuted at Doc NYC in 2022 which also screened at Santa Barbara Film Festival, Big Sky Doc Fest, SFF DOC Fest and was acquired by Grasshopper Film. Estevan is an SFFILM supported filmmaker.
