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Dwayne LeBlanc
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Biography
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 festivals and art institutions worldwide, including Lincoln Center, MoMA and the Berkeley Academy Museum, amongst many others. Civic has been acquired by the film studies department at Harvard University and is distributed on the Criterion Channel.

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