PREVIEW: Akilla’s Escape (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Saul Williams (K-PAX), Thamela Mpumlwana (The Warrior and The Saviour), Vic Mensa (film debut), Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast (film debut), Olunike Adeliyi (She Never Died), Shomari Downer (Edging), Ronnie Rowe (Black Cop), Theresa Tova (It Was You Charlie), Brandon Oakes (The Jingle Dress), Bruce Ramsay (Alive), Cassius Crieghtney (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy), director, writer; Wendy Motion Brathwaite (film debut), writer; Jake Yanowski (Invisible Essence: The Little Prince), producer; 3D (Bullet Boy) and Saul Williams (Dreamstates), composers; Maya Bankovic (Below Her Mouth), cinematographer; Andres Landau (Dead of Winter), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Akilla Brown (Williams) is a drug dealer who manages to interrupt a bank robbery, and captures one of the gang members, who happens to be a 15-year-old boy named Sheppard (Mpumlwana). Over one gruelling night, Akilla is forced to confront the generational cycle of violence that he has always tried to run away from…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Rapper-turned-actor Saul Williams gives an astonishingly reflective lead performance in this gritty, but also emotional, crime drama.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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