Daje is happily enrolled in college in St. Louis, MO in an ultrasound technician program. She chose her future career because of a friendship forged with her own ultrasound technician. Daje and Antonio now have two children together, Ahkeem and Ahlexas.
Where does for ahkeem take place?
North St. Louis The film centers on a North St.Louis-based teenager, Daje Shelton, and her experience in school and in her personal relationships.
Is for ahkeem staged?
For Ahkeem is a special achievement in the underrated art of documentary camera placement, with Levine and Van Soest able to both cover many intimate conversations the way a scripted film would (two cameras, in close-up), but never intrude on the emotional space so often allotted to them.
How old is DAJE Shelton now?
17-year- old The documentary follows Daje Shelton, a 17-year- old Black girl from north St. Louis, Missouri as she strives to graduate from the nation’s only court-supervised public high school.
