Billy Woodberry
1989 Fellow
Los Angeles, CA
In My Father's House
A powerful civil rights leader is forced to renounce his present and confront his past when the son he abandoned reappears.
Selected Works
Film
Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Accomplishments
Billy Woodberry is an independent filmmaker who graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles Film/Television Department with an MFA in production. He has appeared in several films by Charles Burnett, Thom Anderson and James Benning. His works have screened at the Camera Austria Symposium, Harvard Film Archive, Human Rights Watch Film Festival and Museum of Modern Art. He has taught in the Art School and the Film/Video School at CalArts since 1989 and has been a member of the Board of the Film Forum, Los Angeles since 1998.
News
June - July 2004
Billy Woodberry’s 1984 feature Bless Their Little Hearts, in which a family in South Los Angeles is driven to the breaking point by the father’s shame at being unable to support his family, screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive in May.
April - May 2004
Billy Woodberry's 1984 feature Bless Their Little Hearts, in which a family in South Los Angeles is driven to the breaking point by the father's shame at being unable to support his family, screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive in May.
September 2001
Billy Woodberry’s Bless Their Little Hearts screened at Cinematexas in September.  The feature is about an unemployed Watts resident and his many romances.