Akilla’s Escape (2020)
Coming Out at July 15, 2021 on digital
Crime, Drama
Akilla’s Escape iscrime drama film directed by Charles Officer, and written by Zemeckis. The film stars Saul Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast, Vic Mensa, Olunike Adeliyi, Shomari Downer and Ronnie Rowe. The film primiered at September 12, 2020 on Toronto International Film Festival.
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 approved 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 learning 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.
Director: Charles Officer
Writers: Charles Officer, Wendy Motion Brathwaite
Stars: Saul Williams, Thamela Mpumlwana, Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast, Vic Mensa, Olunike Adeliyi, Shomari Downer, Ronnie Rowe
►Cast
Saul Williams | ► | Akilla |
Thamela Mpumlwana | ► | Sheppard / Young Akilla |
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 |
Huse Madhavji | ► | Redmond |
Tony Nappo | ► | Nico |
Jennifer Podemski | ► | Mrs. Rosenthal |
Sagine Sémajuste | ► | Selah |
John Tokatlidis | ► | Luca |
Richard Walters | ► | Simeon |
Carlisle J. Williams | ► | Benzo |