Raising Bertie

We're screening the film Raising Bertie this Sunday, November 5 @ 1:30pm. Not only that but we're fortunate to have the film's director, Margaret Byrne, here to introduce the film and lead a discussion afterward. We feel lucky to have this relationship with the outstanding Chicago based Kartemquim Films as Raising Bertie is a powerful documentary that follows three young African-American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, North Carolina. The film offers a rare in-depth look at the issues facing America's rural youth and the complex relationships between generational poverty, educational equity and race. The library has a good collection of other Kartemquin films on DVD that you can borrow in the AV ROOM and watch some of these other filmmakers great work:

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 

Life Itself 

Trials of Muhammad Ali 

The Homestretch 

The Interrupters 

Prisoner of Her Past 

At the Death House Door

Stevie