Join Salem Film Fest as we present FOR AHKEEM directed by Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest at our virtual film festival. This film will screen as part of RETROSPECTIVE: BLACK IN AMERICA from Friday, Friday July 10 – Thursday, July 30.
View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQD6A5UONvo
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
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Join Salem Film Fest as we present FOR AHKEEM directed by Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest at our virtual film festival. This film will screen as part of RETROSPECTIVE: BLACK IN AMERICA from Friday, Friday July 10 – Thursday, July 30.
View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQD6A5UONvo
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.
Special Screening (SFF 2017). Landon Van Soest directed and Jeremy Levine produced GOOD FORTUNE (SFF 2010).
For more information visit salemfilmfest.com.
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