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Black Film as Protest: Dwayne LeBlanc

Join us for the return of the Black Film as Protest screening series! We’re launching a new season focused on radical filmmakers from the diaspora, starting with a special evening featuring Dwayne LeBlanc.

Screening: CIVIC by Dwanye LeBlanc
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, September 12, 2025
6P (Doors open)
Free Community Screening
Filmmaker in person.

CIVIC (20 mins)
CIVIC is a short film that follows Booker on his first trip back home to South Central, L.A., after several years of self-imposed exile. Without any clear motive or even a warning, Booker returns to the place that holds his origins and the people who shaped him. Framed almost exclusively inside of his car, CIVIC tracks Booker’s fleeting and fragmented encounters around his old streets.

• Indie Memphis Film Festival ~ Best Mid-Length Short Film
Audience Award (Memphis, TN)
• New Orleans Film Festival ~ Special Jury Recognition
• Black Harvest Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
• 1261 Film Festival (Bahamas)
• Soho House, DTLA (Los Angeles, CA)-International Film
• Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)-Clermont
• Ferrand Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France)-New
• Directors / New Films(NYC)
& More…

Dwayne LeBlanc is a Los Angeles–based, first-generation Caribbean American self-taught filmmaker whose work explores themes of migration, visibility, and dual identities.

His debut narrative short film, Civic, was named one of The Best Movies of 2023 by The New Yorker. His sophomore film, Now, Hear Me Good, premiered in the Tiger Shorts Competition at IFFR and continues to screen at major international festivals and leading art institutions. He is set to complete his trilogy with the upcoming short, You Do Not Exist.

About the BlackMaria Microcinema
The BlackMaria is a 40-seat brick-and-mortar space in San Francisco dedicated to cinema as study, discourse, and disruption. At the core is a cinema lens framework using RDA (Rooted in Decolonization and Abstract Thinking).

A project of Indigofera—a creative meditation on place, space/time continuum, and community.

Venue Details:
Burial Clay Theater
The African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
762 Fulton St
San Francisco

Details:

• Date: Friday, September 12, 2025
• Time: 6:00 PM (Doors Open)
• Free Community Screening
• Burial Clay Theater, AAACC

FLYER TEXT:

San Francisco
Black Film as Protest
and the 101 Essential Black FilmsSEPTEMBER 2025 – MARCH 2026

Divad Durant
Dwayne LeBlanc
Lu Stinnette
Donovan J. Gardner
Shantre Pinkney
Mattie Loyce
Aliyah Dunn-Salahudin
Jessica Jones
Ainslee Robson
B. Monét
Maria Judice

Black Micro Cinema
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE COMPLEX
In partnership with AAACC

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