Raising Bertie
An intimate portrait of three african american boys coming of age in rural north carolina
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"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."
Miriam Di Nunzio / CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
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"Profound."
Tambey Obenson / SHADOW AND ACT
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"Deserves a place beside the great achievements in longitudinal film."
Scott Pfieffer / THE MOVING WORLD
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"Charts nothing less than what it’s like to try to grow up
free in the prison capital of the world."
Alan Scherstuhl / VILLAGE VOICE
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"A moving chronicle, and a potent treatise on
failings knows to demonstrate said problems
of preaching them."
Daniel Schindel / PASTE MAGAZINE
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"Dares heart and sympathy and hope
where it would have been excused...
establishing one of the more beautiful and
human documentary exercises of the year."
David Shreve, Jr. / AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE
