For Ahkeem(2017)

Name: For Ahkeem
Director: Jeremy S. Levine
Genre: Documentary
Released: Oct 13, 2017
Cast: Daje Shelton

Release Date: Oct 13, 2017

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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Original Release | Oct 13, 2017 | Limited

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Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. 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.