Akilla's Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set i
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.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.
主演:崔凡特·罗兹,凯瑞·西蒙斯,哈威·凯特尔,卡莱·布朗,Scott MacDonald,Suzette Lange,Nathalie J. Alarcon,Elisha Davis,Ethan Dubin,Erica Rowell Green,B.J. Minor,Kenneth Trujillo,Li Eubanks,Jackie Sanders,Lawrence J. Hughes,劳拉·哈里尔,格蕾丝·扎布里斯基,罗素·霍恩斯比,奥妮克·阿德莉,萨默·马迪森,柯莉·坎帕尼,KateLynn E. Ne