Directing
Dwayne LeBlanc
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is a Los Angeles-based, first-generation, Caribbean-American filmmaker. Primarily self-taught, his practice focuses on themes of migration, visibility and dual identities. LeBlanc was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023 and a 2024 Fellow at the Dolby Institute. His debut narrative film, Civic (2022), an introspective short film about homecoming, was named one of The Best Movies of 2023 by The New Yorker. It was awarded by both the jury and the audience at Indie Memphis Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival. The film was selected for Berlinale International Film Festival’s Short Form Station and for IFFR 2023, continuing to screen at international film f…
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NRBooker 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.
Now, Hear Me Good
2025
6.0Booker he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity.
Civic
2022
NRIn the stillness of his yard, Booker watches the sky fill and empty with passing planes. As the world moves around him, he lingers, circling a memory whose edges blur with time.
You Do Not Exist
2026
Behind the camera
NRBooker 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.
Now, Hear Me Good
2025
NRBooker 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.
Now, Hear Me Good
2025
6.0Booker he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity.
Civic
2022
6.0Booker he returns to South Central L.A. after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, he interacts with the people and places he once knew, floating between moments of nostalgia and the subtle realities of a subconscious search for identity.
Civic
2022
NRIn the stillness of his yard, Booker watches the sky fill and empty with passing planes. As the world moves around him, he lingers, circling a memory whose edges blur with time.
You Do Not Exist
2026