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AKILLA'S ESCAPE

By Charles OFFICIER

WIDE - as SALES All rights, World except Latam, UK and EIRE, South Korea, North America and islands

Thriller - Completed 2020

Akilla’s Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story speaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Charles OFFICIER
- Cast
- Saul WILLIAMS, Thamela MPUMLWANA, Vic MENSA
- Producer(s)
- Jake YANOWSKI (CANESUGAR FILMWORKS)
- Synopsis
- Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approval legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery.
  
  In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.