Raising Bertie (2016)

Directed by

Margaret Byrne

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows three young African American men growing up in rural North Carolina. It shows their daily lives, struggles, and relationships over several years as they come of age.

intimateobservationalgroundedearnestreflectiveslow-pacedtenderhopeful

What happens

Raising Bertie is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Margaret Byrne and produced by Ian Robertson Kibbe, Margaret Byrne, and Jon Stuyvesant. It was distributed by Kartemquin Films and aired in shortened form on the 30th season of PBS's documentary series POV on August 28, 2017. North Carolina native and Grammy-nominated rapper J. Cole is one of the executive producers of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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