Billy Woodberry

Billy Woodberry

Dallas, Texas, USA

American filmmaker. Born in Dallas in 1948, Billy Woodberry is one of the founders of the L.A. Rebellion film movement.

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Bless Their Little Hearts 1984 (6.231)

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.
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The Pocketbook 1980 (5.5)

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)
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And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead 2015 (5.7)

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.
Billy Woodberry

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