Civil Brand - Release Dates

Release Dates

Civil Brand was first premiered at the American Black Film Festival on May 26, 2002 and released by Lions Gate Films in limited theatres on August 29, 2003. Besides its premiere at the American Black Film Festival, during 2002, the movie was shown at the Urbanworld Film Festival on August 9 and at the AFI Film Festival on November 10. During 2003, Civil Brand made an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in January and the Pan African Film Festival on February 6. After 20 months of making an appearance at film festivals and in theaters, on January 27, 2004, the movie was released on DVD, which included “an audio commentary running throughout the film that features the film’s director Neema Barnette and Writer Joyce Reece.”