Billy Woodberry

Bless Their Little Hearts

Billy Woodberry

Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in poorer districts of South Central Los Angeles.

The Pocketbook

Billy Woodberry

Ray Cherry, David Jenkins

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in 16mm, adapts Langston Hughes’ short story, Thank You, Ma’am, and features music by Leadbelly, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. (Ross Lipman)

Red Hollywood

Thom Andersen, Noël Burch

Billy Woodberry, Eric Johnston

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.

And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead

Billy Woodberry

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity's moral survival.

A Story from Africa

Billy Woodberry

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the effective occupation of the territory belonging to the Cuamato people, conquered in 1907, in the south of Angola. A STORY FROM AFRICA enlivens a rarely seen photographic archive through the tragic tale of Calipalula, the Cuamato nobleman essential to the unfolding of events in this Portuguese pacification campaign.

When It Rains

Charles Burnett

Ayuko Babu, Florence Bracy

A musician spends New Year's Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

Marseille Après La Guerre

Billy Woodberry

Billy Woodberry, Ousmane Sembène

The film uses a collection of post-World War II black & white photographs to portray the dockworkers of Marseilles, many of whom were of African descent. Set in and around a 1947 strike protesting weapons shipments to the French in Indochina, the images evoke the life and work of Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène, a former dockworker, and one of the founding figures of the New African Cinema of the 1960s.