The first of the Kickstarter-backed short films are ready to premiere!
In his half century as a filmmaker, Billy Jackson served on crews for iconic Black filmmakers like William Greaves, Bill Gunn, Kathleen Collins, and Henry Hampton. He also founded Nommo Productions and Community Media, through which he has made his own documentaries and projects-for-hire, trained youth in filmmaking, programmed neighborhood movie screenings, and tirelessly advocated for “raising consciousness through film.”
His stature has risen with the award of funding from National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve two of his films, as well as subsequent screenings at MoMA. We are honored to spend an afternoon with Billy, this time with the Pittsburgh premiere of our new Kickstarter and NFPF-backed restorations of “We Are Universal” and “Didn’t We Ramble On,” as well as a 16mm selection of his other work.
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Doors at 1:30, screening starts at 2
At the Carnegie Museum of Art theater
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ABOUT ESSENTIAL PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh Sound + Image seeks to redefine our region’s film history with the Essential Pittsburgh series. We acknowledge the depth of creativity which has flourished here by spotlighting vital artists and their films from the 1960s through the 2000s. This landmark series is a continuation of our efforts to celebrate a fuller picture of independent, amateur, industrial, and experimental filmmaking talent, and to better situate Pittsburgh nationally as a place of rich cinematic history.
