​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 Black diaspora, starting with a special evening featuring Dewayne LeBlanc.

Filmmaker in attendance.

​Double Feature: CIVIC & NOW, HERE ME GOOD
by Dwanye LeBlanc
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
630P (Doors open)
$18 (Online)
$20 (Door)

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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...

​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. Only the next morning, while playing his trumpet, does he find his place in the stillness of the soft early light.

​Tiger Shorts Competition at IFFR 2024

​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:
BlackMaria Microcinema
465 South Van Ness
Yelamu, San Francisco

​Details:

• ​Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025

• ​Time: 6:30 PM (Doors Open)

• ​$18 (Online) / $20 Door

• ​BlackMaria Microcinema