FILMS

Jimmy's Story

"Every musician in America should see this film." Faust Pierfederici

"Billy Yeager is not dead. His film, so full of life, is proof of that." John Stacey New Times

"An outstanding film that is a remarkable achievement, I can't imagine how much work went into this very personal original film." Awards ceremony at The Palm Beach International Film Festival.

"That a local musician such as Yeager was able to turn a life of artistic struggle into a visual story is unique enough. That anyone without any prior film experience could have actually transformed 100 hours of raw footage and 20 years of personal history into a finished more than feature length film is a testament to perseverance." New Times Miami

About Jimmy' Story
Yeager recorded his whole life with 4 video cameras, beginning in 1968 with 8 m.m. film cameras, 1970's VHS, 1980'S HI-8 and Beta, and 1990's digital. Cameras were placed in his automobile, apartment, he even made a 50 foot homemade aerial crane so he could film himself from 50 feet in the air. Yeager finished his documentary film in 1997, which was originally a 3 part series, 6 hours long, edited down to 2 hours. There was over 600 hours of footage and it took over 6 years to complete the first version. 30 years ahead of his time, Yeager knew his life was a movie when he left home at 13 years of age.

Yeager' life and film gained attention when he fooled the press in the US and Internationally that he was the long lost son of Jimi Hendrix.

A Perfect Song

"This film has real charms, what' great is the sincerity of a creative obsessive character playing a creative obsessive character musing about God and creativity. There are scenes of Lloyd producing ambient music in his gadget studio, plus delightful local color, including Florida fauna and a sympathetic tour of the legendary Coral Castle."
Delray Beach Film Festival 2004.

Yeager wrote, produced, directed, acted, and composed all the music for A Perfect Song, this was his first dramatic feature film and was made with no money. Yeager reinvented himself again, shaving his head, and gaining 30 pounds for the role of Lloyd. A Perfect Song won him a Best Actor category at The Delray Beach Film Festival and also became a cult classic film selling over 15,000 copies on filmbaby and indiefilm. Yeager is a regular guest speaker on the film festival circuit where he discusses his approach to no budget and no money film making.

Yeager wrote, produced, directed, acted, and composed all the music for A Perfect Song, this was his first dramatic feature film and was made with no money. Yeager reinvented himself again, shaving his head, and gaining 30 pounds for the role of Lloyd. A Perfect Song won him a Best Actor category at The Delray Beach Film Festival and also became a cult classic film selling over 15,000 copies on filmbaby and indiefilm. Yeager is a regular guest speaker on the film festival circuit where he discusses his approach to no budget and no money film making.

The Highwaymen 2003.

In the early 1990's an interest in "outsider art" or art which is created by artists who are outside mainstream society, developed in the art world and in 1995 an article was written for a journal by Jim Fitch who coined the group the "Highwaymen" because of their tactics of traveling I-95 and A1A to sell their artwork. Not long after this the New York Times wrote an article on the Florida Highwaymen and two books on the group have been published since then, causing the value of Florida Highwaymen art to skyrocket.

In 1999 Billy Yeager began his mission and journey to seek out and find all the existing Highwaymen, including many that were not mentioned in the books that were published.

Yeager spent 1 year driving from Miami to Ft. Pierce sometimes 5 days a week to film and document and also learn how to paint like a Highwaymen. He was the only person allowed to visit Tomoka State Prison and inmate Albert Black who told Yeager about the forgeries, and told him how the artist signed their names different , or would sometimes sign as another artist on their paintings and why. He learned about the upson boards they painted on, and how to discern a 1950's painting from a 1970's painting that was on massonite board.

He was given the Official title of The Highwaymen Curator in 2003 and featured on FOX NEWS about his film The Florida Highwaymen The Other Side of the Road.
Livingston Roberts one of the most famous of the Highwaymen spent his months painting with Yeager teaching him how to mix paints, and capture the essence of what the original Highwaymen captured over 50 years ago.

Jesus of Malibu

Information about the 3 part Trilogy Jesus of Malibu can be found Here

Awards

Jimmy’s Story 1998- 2001
Best Documentary Palm Beach International Film Festival

Best Folk Film DIFF
Best First Feature DIFF
Best Documentary DIFF

Audience Award DIFF
*DALONEGA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL