MÁRIO
Billy Woodberry | Portugal, France 2024 | 120 Min. | Portuguese, French, English with engl. Subtitles
FRIDAY 09.05. | 6:30 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
In Presence of Billy Woodberry
Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928-1990) was a key figure in Africa’s anti-colonial struggles, particularly in the Angolan liberation movement of the 1950s to 1970s. Firmly convinced that independence from colonialism was the beginning, not the end, of the struggle, he spent his life fighting for the building of African nations.
Billy Woodberry weaves together archival material, photographs and contemporary interviews to create an admonitory portrait of the pan-African intellectual, activist, diplomat and poet. With it he reminds us that even more than 50 years after independence the words and demands of Mário Pinto de Andrade and the revolutionaries of the independence movement have lost none of their urgency.
Director: Billy Woodberry
Camera: Peter Chappel, João Vagos
Editing: Luís Nunes
Sound: Matheus Ribeiro
Production: Subobscura Films – Georg Tiller & Maéva Ranaïvojaona
AWARDS & SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Documenta Madrid
Viennale
Olhar de Cinema
Cambodia IFF
Montreuil IFF
Africa Film Festival Cologne
Film Africa, London
LEFFEST Lisbon
DJÂRFOGO IFF, Cape Verde
Luanda PAFF
New York African Diaspora Film Festival
BIOGRAPHY
Billy Woodberry is one of the founders of the L.A. rebellion film movement. His first feature Film Bless Their Little Hearts (1983) is a pioneer and essential work of this movement, influenced by Italian neorealism and the work of Third cinema filmmakers. The film was awarded with an OCIC and Interfilm award at the Berlin International Film Festival and was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2013. His latest feature film And when I die, I won’t stay dead (2015) about the Beat poet Bob Kaufmann was the opening-film of MoMA’s Doc Fortnight in 2016.
