In the quietly powerful Raising Bertie, three black boys in North Carolina’s rural Bertie County come of age right before our eyes. Filmed over six years, they deal with the same issues that every boy approaching the leap to manhood faces—and others triggered by their specific and often precarious conditions. As the quote from James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son that opens the film puts it, “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.”
Raising Bertie has its national broadcast premiere on the PBS documentary series POV (Point of View) on Monday, August 28, 2017 (check local listings). POV (Point of View) is American television's longest-running independent documentary series, now in its 30th season.
Photo gallery, synopsis, and more at http://www.pbs.org/pov/raisingbertie/.