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. Through Daje’s intimate coming-of- age story, the documentary illuminates challenges that many black teenagers face in America today.
For Ahkeem
2017
12 years
90 min.
Documentary
USA
Colorido
Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest
Nicholas Weissman
Lily Henderson
Iyabo Boyd, Nicholas Weissman
Weissman Studio, Transient Pictures, ITVS
Noah Bennett Cunningham
Wide House
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