Dwayne LeBlanc is a Los Angeles-based, first-generation, Caribbean American filmmaker. Primarily self-taught, his practice focuses on 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. It won both a Jury Prize and an Audience Award at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and a Special Jury Recognition at the New Orleans Film Festival. Civic premiered internationally in Rotterdam at IFFR and in France at Clermont-Ferrand. The film has continued to screen at international film festivals and art institutions worldwide, including Lincoln Center and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films, the Berkeley Academy Museum and Recontres International Paris/Berlin. Civic has been acquired by the film studies department at Harvard University and is distributed on the Criterion Channel.
LeBlanc is one of Filmmaker Magazine's '25 New Faces of Independent Film' and a 2024 Dolby Institute Fellow where he is currently in post production for his sophomore short film, Now, Hear Me Good.