In 2019, at the cusp of a historic spike in gun violence in St. Louis, a team of filmmakers and local activists began documenting a cycle of guns, crime and revenge playing out in the streets in north St. Louis.
The result is the documentary “Catching Bullets,” which debuted on streaming services Tubi and Amazon on Aug. 15. The film follows the life of drug dealer-turned-anti-violence activist Darren Seals, who in the 1980s treated the Walnut Park neighborhood as territory for crime and violence. Decades later, in 2018, Seals bought a condemned church — the same one he attended as a child — and converted it into a youth center called Sankofa.
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