Akilla’s Escape

Feature length Film Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2020
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.

Akilla’s Escape

Feature length Film Premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2020
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.
Akilla's Escape
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Akilla's Escape

Members:

Andres Landau,  Michael Hearty,  Ryan V Hays

Credits:

directed by CHARLES OFFICER
produced by CHARLES OFFICER AND JAKE YANOWSKI
cinematography by MAYA BANKOVIC
edited by ANDRES LANDAU
original score by SAUL WILLIAMS with ROBERT DEL NAJA (as 3D)
re-recording mixer GRAHAM ROGERS
written by WENDY MOTION BRATHWAITE AND CHARLES OFFICER

starring SAUL WILLIAMS, THAMELA MPUMIWANA, DONISHA RITA CLAIRE PRENDERGAST, VIC MENSA, RONNIE ROWE, SHOMARI DOWNER, OLUNIKE ADELIYI, COLM FEORE, THERESA TOVA, BRUCE RAMSAY, CASSIUS CRIEGHTNEY, BRANDON OAKES.