[5] This term was coined by film scholar Clyde Taylor, and the movement sought for a new aesthetic and mode of representation and narration that spoke to the realities of black existence.

Woodberry's film Bless Their Little Hearts illustrates this in its examination of the tensions caused by class conflicts within an African American family.

His film, along with those of Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Charles Burnett, and numerous others, helped to create narratives that spoke to the black experience.

[6] Woodberry's short film The Pocketbook explores concepts of loneliness, as an abandoned child is forced to confront his situation after a botched robbery.

[9] Played by Nate Hardman and Kaycee Moore, the film's lead protagonist, Charlie and Andais Banks, grapple with financial hardships and constant stressors in their marriage.

[10] Woodberry's latest film And when I die, I won't stay dead is a documentary about the life and work of the poet Bob Kaufman.

[12] In this film Woodberry continues to address some of his major themes such as institutional wrongdoing (Kaufman ended up at Bellevue Hospital, where he was subjected to shock treatment); a close evocation of setting (North Beach scene in San Francisco) and the profound presentation of a complex, drifting character.