BFP: Maria Judice (Feature)
Black Film as Protest: Maria Judice
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.
elephant (Feature)
by Maria Judice
BlackMaria Microcinema
Saturday, September 13, 2025
200P (Doors open)
230P (Screening)
$18 (Online)
$20 (Door)
elephant (72 mins)
A woman witnesses the murder of a young boy by a police officer and suffers from a prolonged mental breakdown that renders her incapable of leaving her apartment.
This feature film is made in collaboration and participation with the beloved community of San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area.
• Ann Arbor Film Festival (World Premiere)
• Prismatic Ground
• Polish International Film Festival (Best Feature Film)
• AAFF Presents Tour
• CalArts
• Indie Memphis (Departures Audience Award)
• Rutgers University
• The International Gullah Film
• Pan African Film Festival
• African American Women In Cinema
• Ann Arbor Library Private Collection
• San Diego Underground Film Festival
• African Diaspora International Film Festival
• Imagine This International Women's Film Festival
• African Diaspora International Film Festival
• Cadavre Exquis, Palermo Italy
& More...
About Filmmaker
Maria Judice is a filmmaker, artist, and cultural worker with an M.F.A. from CalArts. M is celebrated for her radical storytelling, hailed by Wired as a "filmmaker provocateur." Her award-winning short Palm Trees Down 3rd St. (2008) was deemed "a masterpiece" by Film Threat. Her feature Elephant (2022) premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, winning at Indie Memphis, while she produced Neptune Frost (Cannes 2021). In 2024, Maria launched The BlackMaria Microcinema in San Francisco, amplifying decolonized narratives and education on unceded Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone land. She is a founding member of Red Clay Soundhaus and 465 Collective.
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 its core is a cinema lens framework rooted in decolonization and abstract thinking, utilizing 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, March 14, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM (Doors Open)
$18 (Online) / $20 Door
BlackMaria Microcinema