Billy Woodberry

Billy Woodberry

Biography

Billy Woodberry is one of the founders of the L.A. Rebellion Film Movement. The movement consisted of a generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. These independent filmmakers created a Black Cinema that strived for a new aesthetic and mode of representation and addressed the realities of Black existence. Woodberry's film BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (1984) is considered an essential work of this cinema. His work has been shown in Cannes, Berlin and various museums. He is a member of the faculty of the School of Film/Video and the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts.

Filmography

MÁRIO (2024): Direction