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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 1 h 42 m

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 th...

Directed By: Margaret Byrne

Written By: Leslie Simmer, Margaret Byrne

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Gunpowder & Sky
  • 1 h 42 m

Raising Bertie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 th...

Directed By: Margaret Byrne

Written By: Leslie Simmer, Margaret Byrne

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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90
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.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Miriam Di Nunzio FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Daniel Schindel FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 5, 2017
The documentary mistakes its access to quotidian behaviors as evidence of the need for comprehensive educational and financial reform.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Kartemquin Films
Release Date Jun 9, 2017
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline An intimate portrait of three African American boys coming of age in rural North Carolina
Website http://www.raisingbertie.com/
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Awards

Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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