Campfire: Eviction Stories from the Mission District

On January, 17, 2014, the “village” gathered around a campfire to hark the horrors of no-fault evictions of lifelong Mission residents and other San Franciscans provoked by rampant real estate speculation in the City.  Fourteen brave storytellers shared their horrific experiences. Below is the resulting documentary film series Campfire: Eviction Community Stories, consisting of a documentary video, and 12 individual evictee mini-clips. Considered together, the evicted storytellers create a haunting picture of the vanishing characters, and therefore, character of San Francisco.

The documentary series is the result of a community partnership between Shaping San Francisco, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, and Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission District. Funded in part by a 2013 CalHumanities Community Stories Grant, Unsettlers was originally hosted as a special project of Shaping San Francisco.

The documentary series was filmed at an event titled “Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors”, co-hosted by Adriana Camarena with Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission District and Erin McElroy with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project at the Silverstone Cafe (24th Street near Mission Street), 6 -9 p.m.