Raising Bertie - Feature Film
Motion Pictures & Film - Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Raising Bertie - Feature Film Details
Set in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina, Raising Bertie takes audiences deep into the emotional lives of three boys – Reginald "Junior" Askew, David "Bud" Perry, and Davonte "Dada" Harrell – over six-years as they come of age. This powerful vérité film produced by Chicago's internationally acclaimed Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters), Raising Bertie movingly weaves the young men's stories together as they try to define their identities, interconnecting narratives of family, youthful innocence, first love, systemic racism, educational inequity, poverty and unemployment, and the will to succeed in the face of formidable oddsRural minorities like the youth in Bertie represent some of the nation's most vulnerable and least visible individuals, existing at that critical juncture of rural disenfranchisement and the achievement gap for young people of color. Rural child poverty rates continue to rise while poverty rates for minorities in rural areas are nearly three times that of rural whites. Despite this, the national media and educational reform movement have focused primarily on the needs of urban and non-rural youth, largely ignoring this vital segment of America. This is particularly troubling considering that rural areas provide most of our food, house most of our prisoners, and provide a large number of our armed personnel.Raising Bertie is an experience that asks us to see this world through their eyes, inciting recognition of lives and communities too often ignored.Director/Producer: Margaret ByrneProducer: Ian KibbeDirector of Photography/Producer: Jon Stuyvesant
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