For Ahkeem (2017)

For Ahkeem Theatrical Trailer * Top 10 List in Entertainment Weekly (Must List) and People Magazine (People Pick) * Daje Shelton named on the Cinema Eye Honors List of Unforgettables in 2017, subjects that helped to define documentary cinema in 2017 according to IndieWire * World Premiere, Berlin Film Festival, Nominated for Glashütte Original Documentary Award * Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival * Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Independent Film Festival Boston * Official Selection, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival * Official Selection, Sheffield Doc/Fest * Winner, Special Jury Mention, Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival * Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Tacoma Film Festival * Winner, Best Feature Documentary, International Black Film Festival * Winner, Best Feature Documentary, Santa Fe Independent Film Festival * Winner, Outstanding Documentary Feature, Tallgrass Film Festival * Official Selection of over 50 film festivals and counting 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.