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For Ahkeem is a 2017 documentary film directed by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy S. Levine. The film centers on a North St. Louis-based teenager, Daje Shelton, and her experience in school and in her personal relationships.
Oct 13, 2017 · For Ahkeem: Directed by Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest. With Daje Shelton. A junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.
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- Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest
- 2017-10-13
Dec 3, 2017 · 19. 1K views 6 years ago. One year before the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in nearby Ferguson, 17-year-old Daje is sentenced to a...
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Through Daje’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
“For Ahkeem” is the concise, heartfelt work of documentarians Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest, but tells its very intimate story as if it were the cinematic diary made by its center focus, a 17-year-old black American named Daje “Boonie” Shelton.
About this movie. arrow_forward. One year before the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, a 17-year-old black girl in...
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Through Daje’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
