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Akilla's Escape

2020
1h 30m
Crime/Drama
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Cast

Saul Williams (Akilla)Thamela Mpumlwana (Sheppard)Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast (Faye)Vic Mensa (Prince)Olunike Adeliyi (Thetis)Shomari Downer (Shadow)Ronnie Rowe (Clinton)Theresa Tova (Athena)Brandon Oakes (Zo)Bruce Ramsay (Jimmy)Cassius Crieghtney (Cutty)Pedro Miguel Arce (Rodrigo)Colm Feore (Benji)Victor Gomez (Andres)David Keeley (Detective Jones)Husein Madhavji (Redmond)Tony Nappo (Nico)Jennifer Podemski (Mrs. Rosenthal)

Director

Charles Officer

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Synopsis

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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