Toronto Int’l Film Festival: AKILLA’S ESCAPE, A Noir Heist Confronting Cycles Of Generational Violence (Interview With Saul Williams, Charles Officer and Thamela Mpumlwana)
Interview by Paul Salfen MOVIE SYNOPSIS: 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.