Africa-Press – Angola. Entitled “Mário”, the documentary that tells the story of nationalist Mário Pinto de Andrade will be shown today, at 7:00 pm, at Shopping Fortaleza, in Luanda, in a special session.The film will be shown again tomorrow at 6pm at Shopping Avenida, with free entry. The film, which is around two hours long, was directed by renowned American filmmaker Billy Woodberry, who won the Sarah Maldoror Trophy at the 4th edition of the “Docluanda” International Documentary Film Festival, which runs from the 10th to the 16th of this month.
According to the festival director, Jorge António, Billy Woodberry has been in Luanda since Saturday to receive the trophy and witness the screening of his film for the first time in the country where Mário Pinto de Andrade was born in 1928, in the province of Cuanza-Norte. A Pan-Africanist of great political and cultural prominence, Mário Pinto de Andrade died in London in 1990.
The film had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Festival in the Netherlands in November last year. In the Portuguese-speaking world, it was only shown in Portugal, in December of the same year, receiving several positive reviews in the press.
“Mário” features testimonies from some of the Angolan intellectual’s contemporary figures, as well as excerpts from interviews. The American director also used the family of Mário Pinto de Andrade, including in the film the testimonies of Henda Ducados, one of Mário Pinto de Andrade’s two daughters, and Sarah Maldoror.Born in Dallas in 1950, Billy Woodberry is a founding member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers).
He received his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1982, where he also taught at the School of Theater, Film and Television.
In 1989, he became a permanent faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts’ School of Film/Video and School of Art, teaching courses on “Film and Photo,” “Questions of Third Cinema,” and “The History of Documentary Film,” among others. He currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal.
Woodberry’s films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Viennale Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Harvard Film Archive, Camera Austria Symposium, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and BAMPFA in Berkeley, among other venues.
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