ADAMA trailer

http://worldcompass.org/episodes/adama Available online until December 6th!

For more info about the film see http://www.itvs.org/films/adama

ADAMA premiered nationwide Sunday November 6th on PBS WORLD Channel at 9pm.

On March 24th, 2005, Adama Bah, a 16-year-old Muslim girl, awoke at dawn to discover nearly a dozen armed government agents inside her family's apartment in East Harlem. She was arrested and taken to a maximum-security juvenile detention center in Pennsylvania. An FBI document leaked to the press mysteriously identified Adama as a "potential" suicide bomber and an "imminent threat to the security of the United States." After six weeks of public protest and media scrutiny, Adama was released with an ankle bracelet and a deportation order, but no terrorist charges. Still traumatized by the experience of her detention, Adama must drop out of high school and support her four younger siblings when her father is deported to Guinea, Africa. Using intimate verité footage, Adama captures the extreme pressures bearing down on this young Muslim girl and her desperate efforts to keep her family from unraveling.

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Adama, a Muslim girl from Harlem, became the youngest person swept up by the FBI in a terrorism investigation when she was just 16. Released after 6 weeks with no charges, Adama must struggle to keep her family together when her father is deported.