Raising Bertie

Name: Raising Bertie
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 9, 2017
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 74

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Gunpowder & Sky | Release Date: June 9, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: An intimate, six-year portrait of three boys growing into adulthood in Bertie County, located in rural Eastern North Carolina, the film offers viewers a respectful and tender insight into the emotional lives of Reginald “Junior” Askew, David “Bud” Perry, and Davonte “Dada” Harrell. This raw and starkly poetic cinéma vérité film weaves theirAn intimate, six-year portrait of three boys growing into adulthood in Bertie County, located in rural Eastern North Carolina, the film offers viewers a respectful and tender insight into the emotional lives of Reginald “Junior” Askew, David “Bud” Perry, and Davonte “Dada” Harrell. This raw and starkly poetic cinéma vérité film weaves their stories together as they navigate school, unemployment, violence, first love, fatherhood, and estrangement from family members and mentors, subtly exploring the complex relationships between generational poverty, economic isolation, and educational inequity.… Expand

Director: Margaret Byrne

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Kimber Myers

Jun 22, 2017

The 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. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Jun 8, 2017

Raising Bertie charts nothing less than what it’s like to try to grow up free in the prison capital of the world. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jun 15, 2017

The 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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jun 8, 2017

There 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. Read full review

Miriam Di Nunzio

Jun 15, 2017

It’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. Read full review

Daniel Schindel

Jun 13, 2017

Raising Bertie is a moving chronicle, and a potent treatise on institutional failings that knows to demonstrate said problems instead of merely preaching them. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jun 5, 2017

The documentary mistakes its access to quotidian behaviors as evidence of the need for comprehensive educational and financial reform. Read full review

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