About

  Candice Delevante is a New York-based screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. 

Having experienced and witnessed hate crimes as a youth and institutionalized racism as an adult, one day she

finally decided to document

one of her experiences. 

She started as a scrappy archival producer, meshing re-enactments together with 

news footage, montages and voiceovers to create her first short documentary

titled "Go Quietly" in 2016, while an attorney anonymously offered a “playbook” for use in the film.  The playbook was an unpublished document used by one of the big banks to support the argument that we live in

a two-tiered system of justice. 

Her next two documentaries titled

 “The Robo Con’ and “Nkosi Eclipsed” featured strong, indomitable characters who inspire by rising up to speak courageously about systems of oppression. 

Her documentaries and screenplays have been showcased at festivals in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe and Australia. 

 Candice's early background includes

work as an actor, dancer, copywriter

and stage manager.  

A work-study program at the

Roundabout Theatre Company led to

opportunities to work with actors

Jasmine Guy and David Strathairn, 

playwright Nicole Quinn and film directors Jace Alexander, Christian Faber

and David Gleeson. 

Eventually returning after a hiatus, she harnessed these early experiences and parlayed her skills into her first short documentary titled "Go Quietly" which screened at the Ohio Independent Film Festival during the week of the  2016 U.S. Presidential election. 

 In 2020, she became a BRIC Documentary Intensive Cohort, used her stimulus check from the U.S. government and reunited with her high school cohort, Chad Strohmeyer, to produce their first project in over 30 years. 

Candice is a member of

NY Women in Film & Television.