Fine Black Frame
Canada
DIRECTOR: Leah Doz
2025 / CANADA
One man explores and defies the definitions of Blackness, queerness, and masculinity in a kinetic self-portrait. Thomas Antony Olajide's text for “Fine Black Frame” was first written for the Canadian theatrical production of “Black Boys.” This is a cinematic adaptation of the piece, centering its bold, poetic, and physical investigation of being a Black man in a white world.
RUNNING TIME—00:07:10
ARTIST’S BIO: Leah Doz is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. Her first auteur short film “Strangers” won the Grand Jury Prize and Future of Film is Female Prize at Brooklyn’s 2025 Nitehawk Shorts Festival. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, and is an actor in the 2025 Sundance, TIFF, Rotterdam, and SXSW NEON Award-winning official selection feature “Dead Lover,” for which she was also a story developer. She is an alumna of Canada’s Black Screen Office, Reelworld Screen Institute, and Women in the Director’s Chair, and is developing her first feature with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
2025 / CANADA
One man explores and defies the definitions of Blackness, queerness, and masculinity in a kinetic self-portrait. Thomas Antony Olajide's text for “Fine Black Frame” was first written for the Canadian theatrical production of “Black Boys.” This is a cinematic adaptation of the piece, centering its bold, poetic, and physical investigation of being a Black man in a white world.
RUNNING TIME—00:07:10
ARTIST’S BIO: Leah Doz is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. Her first auteur short film “Strangers” won the Grand Jury Prize and Future of Film is Female Prize at Brooklyn’s 2025 Nitehawk Shorts Festival. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, and is an actor in the 2025 Sundance, TIFF, Rotterdam, and SXSW NEON Award-winning official selection feature “Dead Lover,” for which she was also a story developer. She is an alumna of Canada’s Black Screen Office, Reelworld Screen Institute, and Women in the Director’s Chair, and is developing her first feature with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
