Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina. Through the intimate portrayal of these boys, this powerful vérité film offers a rare in-depth look at the issues facing America's rural youth and the complex relationships between generational poverty, educational equity, and race. The evo... (Full plot summary below)
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Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina. Through the intimate portrayal of these boys, this powerful vérité film offers a rare in-depth look at the issues facing America's rural youth and the complex relationships between generational poverty, educational equity, and race. The evocative result is an experience that encourages us to recognize the value and complexity in lives all too often ignored.
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| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlRaising Bertie charts nothing less than what it’s like to try to grow up free in the prison capital of the world. |
| Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersThe film alternates between triumph and tragedy, but there’s never a moment that doesn’t feel intimate and authentic in its 96-minute running time. |
| rogercatlin.comRoger CatlinBy keeping talking heads - and most authority figures outside of moms, Saunders and other teachers - out of the film and letting the young men speak and dream of their future show glimmers of hope and an indomitable spirit, even in the bleakest prospects. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThere are times when Raising Bertie can seem a bit too unfocused, but it’s a project that always feels worthwhile for the opportunity it provides to expand an often-narrow view of the country. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesMiriam Di NunzioIt’s a portrait of communities and families striving to do right by their kids, but where schools and lack of job programs fail to meet communities’ most desperate needs. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubByrne is the furthest thing from being a manipulative filmmaker. But Raising Bertie is moving nonetheless. |
| The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe experiences and challenges of the rural poor might make it into the national conversation as an abstraction, but rarely with the specificity of this intimate portrait of a black community. |
| Paste MagazineDan SchindelRaising Bertie is the kind of movie that understands the intrinsic link between the political and the personal. |
| Paste MagazineDaniel SchindelRaising Bertie is a moving chronicle, and a potent treatise on institutional failings that knows to demonstrate said problems instead of merely preaching them. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardThe documentary mistakes its access to quotidian behaviors as evidence of the need for comprehensive educational and financial reform. |
