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Raising Renee Trailer (2011)

Trailer for the documentary Raising Resistance.

Raising Renee begins in 2003 as Beverly McIver is savoring opening night of her first solo art show in New York. An accomplished painter and winner of major awards, her career was skyrocketing. She flew in her mother Ethel, a maid from Greensboro, North Carolina and her sister, Renee, 43 who is mentally disabled and functions at about the level of a third grader. Years before, Beverly had casually promised her mother that she would take Renee when Ethel died, an event that seemed infinitely far off and unlikely to impinge on her life as a single woman, painting and teaching where her work took her. But in 2004, Ethel died suddenly and Beverly's promise was put to the test. Raising Renee is the story of a family's remarkable response to being broken apart and rearranged after nearly 50 years. The film explores deep themes of family, race, class and disability through the interplay of painting...

Duration
0 min 55 sec

Views
3,373

Posted On
September 21, 2012
Director
Steven Ascher

Writer
Unknown or Not Available

Studio
HBO Films

Release
November 10, 2011
Cast
Unknown or Not Available
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No Music Available
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