ALICE STREET

Year: 2020 | Run time: 67 min

In a gentrifying city,
a luxury condo threatens
a local mural, sparking community and artist resistance for their history and land.

Two Oakland artists, Pancho Peskador, a Chilean studio painter, and Desi Mundo, a Chicago-born aerosol artist, form an unlikely partnership to tackle their most ambitious project to date, a four-story mural in the heart of downtown Oakland. Their site is situated at a unique intersection where Chinese and Afro-Diasporic communities face the imminent threat of displacement and gentrification. Prior to painting, the mural faces numerous obstacles: complex negotiations with profit-minded property owners, satisfying a community of diverse residents, and resolving the artists’ own aesthetic conflicts.

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DIRECTOR: Spencer Wilkinson

PRODUCED BY: Endangered Ideas

FINISHING EDITOR: Jon Ayons Alonso

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Demondre Ward, Ayse Gursoz & Spencer Wilkinson

ORIGINAL SCORE BY: Micah Berek

SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: James Berek

TRANSLATIONS BY: Victor Luo

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awards

  • “Set in just a few city blocks, it’s a story about intractable loss as well as collective refusal, depicting artists’ role in grassroots activism that builds power by bridging communities.”

    — Sam Lefebvre, KQED Arts

  • "Alice Street...shows us that if people take the time to connect, respect—and really listen to each other, genuine progress can be made that respects what has come before."

    - CJ Hirschfield, Splash Pad News

  • "A triumphant documentary interweaving stories within the different communities in Oakland...a beautiful, vivid, and artistic mural of the lives and cultures emerges."

    - Beth Lederer, The Guardsman

news + reviews

“AT A TIME WHEN SOCIETY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE DIVIDED, ARTS AND CULTURE CAN BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.”

“AT A TIME WHEN SOCIETY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE DIVIDED, ARTS AND CULTURE CAN BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.”

‘ALICE STREET’ CAPTURES THE HISTORY OF A ONCE-BOOMING ARTS DISTRICT AND ITS STRUGGLE TO SAVE A MURAL THAT REPRESENTS IT.”

‘ALICE STREET’ CAPTURES THE HISTORY OF A ONCE-BOOMING ARTS DISTRICT AND ITS STRUGGLE TO SAVE A MURAL THAT REPRESENTS IT.”

‘ALICE STREET’ CAPTURES THE HISTORY OF A ONCE-BOOMING ARTS DISTRICT AND ITS STRUGGLE TO SAVE A MURAL THAT REPRESENTS IT.”

“THE STORY OF AN OAKLAND MURAL THAT SPARKED A MOVEMENT.”

“THE STORY OF AN OAKLAND MURAL THAT SPARKED A MOVEMENT.”

“THE STORY OF AN OAKLAND MURAL THAT SPARKED A MOVEMENT.”