AKILLA’S ESCAPE, 2020
TITLES
PRODUCER: Jake Yanowski, Charles Officer
DIRECTOR: Charles Officer
WRITER: Charles Officer and Motion
CAST: Saul Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, Vic Mensa, Donisha Prendergast, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Olunike Adeliyi, Colm Feore, Bruce Ramsay, Shomari Downer
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.
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