With co-directors Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest, producer Jeff Truesdell, field producer Brad Rayford, Quinton Jackson, [? Llloyd] Director of Photography, Nicholas Weissman, and subjects Daje Shelton and Judge Jimmie Edwards. Sponsored by Mike Isaacson & Joe Ortmeyer. Nov. 11, 2017.
Part of the “Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City Through the Lens of Film and Television," program presented by Washington University Libraries, Washington University’s Sam Fox School’s College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, Cinema St. Louis and the Missouri History Museum.
“Mean Streets” is made possible through the generous funding of the Missouri Humanities Council and is part of “The Divided City” initiative, a joint project of Washington University’s Center for the Humanities and the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. “The Divided City” is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Beginning one year before the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in nearby Ferguson, “For Ahkeem” is the coming-of-age story of Daje Shelton, a black 17-year-old girl in North St. Louis. She fights for her future as she is placed in an alternative high school and navigates the marginalized neighborhoods, biased criminal-justice policies, and economic devastation that have set up many black youth like her to fail. After she is expelled from her public high school, juvenile-court Judge Jimmie Edwards sends Daje to the court-supervised Innovative Concept Academy, which offers her one last chance to earn a diploma. Over two years, Daje struggles to maintain focus in school, attends the funerals of friends killed around her, falls in love with a classmate named Antonio, and navigates a loving-but-tumultuous relationship with her mother. As Antonio is drawn into the criminal-justice system and as events in Ferguson - just four miles from her home - seize the national spotlight, Daje learns she is pregnant and must contend with the reality of raising a young black boy. -- Cinema St. Louis
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