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.
Filmmaker in attendance.
CIVIC
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, September 12, 2025
6P
Free Community Screening
CIVIC & Now, Hear Me Good
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
630P
(Limited Seating)
Dwayne LeBlanc Masterclass
Sunday, September 14, 2025
330P
BlackMaria Microcinema
(Limited Spaces Available)
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.
NOW, HERE ME GOOD (16 mins)
Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him.
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.
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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.
Filmmaker in attendance.
CIVIC
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, September 12, 2025
6P
Free Community Screening
CIVIC & Now, Hear Me Good
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
630P
(Limited Seating)
Dwayne LeBlanc Masterclass
Sunday, September 14, 2025
330P
BlackMaria Microcinema
(Limited Spaces Available)
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.
NOW, HERE ME GOOD (16 mins)
Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him.
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.
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.
Filmmaker in attendance.
CIVIC
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, September 12, 2025
6P
Free Community Screening
CIVIC & Now, Hear Me Good
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
630P
(Limited Seating)
Dwayne LeBlanc Masterclass
Sunday, September 14, 2025
330P
BlackMaria Microcinema
(Limited Spaces Available)
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.
NOW, HERE ME GOOD (16 mins)
Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him.
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.
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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.
Filmmaker in attendance.
CIVIC
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, September 12, 2025
6P
Free Community Screening
CIVIC & Now, Hear Me Good
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
630P
(Limited Seating)
Dwayne LeBlanc Masterclass
Sunday, September 14, 2025
330P
BlackMaria Microcinema
(Limited Spaces Available)
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.
NOW, HERE ME GOOD (16 mins)
Booker is far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts an exuberant party, but when the noise of the party dies down and the last guests go home a listlessness returns to him.
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.
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