Aged and Confused
Life after foster care is coming. And it's gonna come fast.
About the film
Alex Jimenez has big dreams. He wants to start his own business, advocate for foster youth and adopt his younger sister. But first, he needs to find a home and manage not to flunk out of community college. With ninety days left before he ages out of foster care, Alex has to get it together, or risk going back to the world he’s trying to escape.
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Meet the Team
CHRISTINA SHAMAN
Christina Shaman is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and podcast producer. Currently, she produces the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards' podcast, "On Assignment". Before that, she was a multimedia fellow at the Texas Tribune and an associate producer and editor on Inside/Outside, a feature-length documentary about mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.
Find her on Twitter @ChristinaShaman.
ANAKHA ARIKARA
Anakha Arikara is a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Bangalore, India. She was part of the video team at The Better India, covering
stories on women, culture and technology.
After graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she worked as an editor with Al Jazeera's Close Up. Currently, she works at Story Syndicate, a production company focusing on both documentaries and scripted content.
Find her on Twitter @anakha_arikara.
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