Filmography

Eddie Womack, an African-American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, Womack searches for his musical mentor, Poppy Harris. Larry Clark's film repeatedly turns to various musicians improvising jazz, leading a French critic to call it “the only jazz film in the history of cinema.”

Jamaa Fanaka continues the boxing saga of “Too Sweet” Gordone. Paroled after serving time for a murder he didn’t commit, prison boxing champ Too Sweet hangs up his gloves, moves in with his sister’s family, and rekindles his romance with Clarisse. He soon learns that life of the outside isn’t much easier than it was in prison, when “Half Dead” Johnson escapes from prison and murders Clarisse. Though the loss of Clarisse is almost too much to bear, Too Sweet, with the help of his new trainer (Mr. T), returns to the fight game and begins his rise to the top. 

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.

On the day of his high school graduation, an African American youth battles for self-determination as a convergence of forces attempt to shuttle him toward a future of lowered expectations in S. Torriano Berry's gritty, yet tender, character study.