Raising Bertie
First screened in October 2016
Director: Margaret Byrne. Documentary about three teenaged black American men as well as their families and community members in a struggling county in rural North Carolina. Screenplay: Margaret Byrne and Leslie Simmer. Twitter Capsule:
Personal and systemic travails of poor black teens and their rural community, conveyed with candor and compassion.
VOR:⑤
This should have been the movie or at least the documentary of the year. A tender but forceful profile of people and places perpetually ignored.
