AKILLA'S ESCAPE
Feature Film (release 2021)
Dir: Charles Officer Prod: Charles Officer, Jake Yanowski, Canesugar Filmworks/Prospero Pictures
Starring Saul Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, Donisha Prendergast, Vic Mensa, Bruce Ramsay
Premiered TIFF 2020, upcoming theatrical release 2021 (Vertical Entertainment)
In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery.
Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.