​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 global diaspora, starting with a special evening featuring Divad Durant.

​​Screening: Palm Trees Down 3rd St.
AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)
Friday, March 13, 2026
6P (Doors open)
Free Community Screening
Filmmaker in person.

​Palm Trees down 3rd St. (22 mins)
While searching for her father, Nikki meets her half-sister Winter for the first time on the streets of San Francisco. The girls join up, continuing the search through the city's underbelly. The journey is abandoned only after finding friendship in each other.

​• Urbanworld (World Premiere, Best Short SFWFF)
• Cinequest
• Long Island Film Festival
• Adrienne Shelly Award for Directing
• 5-star review Film Threat
• BET’s Lens on Talent Season 2
• Reggio Film Festival
• San Francisco Urban Film Festival ( 2018, 10 year Anniversary)
• Kweli TV

​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).

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

​Details:

• ​Date: Friday, March 13, 2026

• ​Doors at 6:00 PM

• ​Screening at 6:30 PM

• ​Tickets: Free admission