Filmmakers Cauleen Smith and Boots Riley will present their debut movies, which were shot in Oakland twenty years apart, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
Smith's film, Drylongso, tells the story of a young Black photography student capturing the faces of young Black men at risk of becoming extinct in a declining West Oakland. Riley's film, Sorry to Bother You, follows a telemarketer in the rapidly gentrifying Oakland of the 2010s.