Caron Creighton
Caron Creighton is an award winning journalist and filmmaker residing in Oakland, California. 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. In 2025, Wood Street participated in Black Public Media’s PitchBlack Forum in New York, and won the Realscreen Pitch competition in Miami. 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 and the Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist Fellowship. Caron has worked for The Associated Press, AJ+, KCBS Radio 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.
