Landon Van Soest
2021Good Fortune
Landon Van Soest
Filmmaker Landon Van Soest's thought documentary explores how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. Intimate portraits of three individuals living in the poorest areas of Kenya, Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
Good Fortune
For Ahkeem
Landon Van Soest, Jeremy S. Levine
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.
For Ahkeem
