Chantal Kreviazuk Reflects on 1-Year Anniversary of Altadena Wildfires with ‘All the Walls Came Down’ (Exclusive)

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• PEOPLE can exclusively premiere the music video for Chantal Kreviazuk’s “All the Walls Came Down”

• “All the Walls Came Down” is the titular theme song for the short doc. of the same name

• All the Walls Came Down premieres on Wednesday, Jan. 7

Chantal Kreviazuk is commemorating the one-year anniversary of the tragic Altadena wildfires.

PEOPLE can exclusively premiere the track and music video for “All the Walls Came Down,” the titular theme song for the short documentary of the same name performed by Kreviazuk, 51, and composed by Morgan Doctor.

On the string-laden ballad, the Grammy-winning musician, 51, sings: “Never knew you from around / ‘Til all the walls came down / Didn’t know your face in the crowd / Then all the walls came down.”

The accompanying music video features footage of Altadena community members holding posters of the lyrics to the track, hugging and cleaning up the wreckage, as well as footage from the January 2025 wildfires.

“It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since this tragedy struck, yet so many people are still living with its impact every day,” Kreviazuk tells PEOPLE.

She adds, “Writing and recording this song was incredibly therapeutic for me, and I hope the song and the film can contribute, in some small way, to a community that is still very much in the process of healing.”

Directed by Ondi Timoner, All the Walls Came Down, which is a part of the L.A. Times Short Docs series, sees the award-winning filmmaker and Altadena resident documenting her journey returning to her community to find it in ruins and and watching her neighbors facing displacement.

The documentary, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and has been shortlisted for an Oscar, captures activist Heavenly Hughes and My TRIBE Rise as the community works together to preserve Altadena’s historic Black community.

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With the launch of All the Walls Came Down, a Change.org petition was created to call for an immediate moratorium on Altadena foreclosures and has since surpassed 1,500 signatures to date.

The film has now become an anthem for Altadena and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars towards the town’s recovery efforts.

All the Walls Came Down will screen premieres on Wednesday, Jan. 7.

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