Bless Their Little Hearts

The 1984 debut feature by Billy Woodberry, one of the founders of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, is a sensitive, powerful drama chronicling the devastating effects of underemployment on an African American family in the L.A. neighborhood depicted in Charles Burnett’s 1977 Killer of Sheep.

Featuring stunning performances by Nate Hardman and Kaycee Moore as a couple whose everyday life is rocked by events beyond their control, Bless Their Little Hearts is enriched immeasurably by collaborator Charles Burnett’s cinematography and screenplay; the film attained national treasure status when it was named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2013, assuring that it will be preserved and protected for future generations.

Newly restored in 2K high definition by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Admission is free in celebration of Black History Month.

“One of the greatest independent films of the twentieth century.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker