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)

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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.