Poster & Clip To Charles Officer’s Akilla's Escape Starring Saul Williams
Now online is the poster and clip to director Charles Officer’s latest film, ‘Akilla’s Escape’ starring Saul Williams. The crime-noir will have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Planet Africa 25 – Special Events
During what is supposed to be a simple, routine handoff, 40-year-old drug trader Akilla Brown is suddenly caught in the middle of a violent robbery. Narrowly making it out alive, he captures one of the thieves, a teenaged Jamaican boy named Sheppard. Under the pressure of the criminals who hired him, Akilla must set things right and retrieve the stolen goods over the course of one arduous night.
When Akilla discovers that Sheppard’s gang has ties to the Garrison Army, the same crime organization he fell into as a child, he has to confront his own traumatic origins and becomes compelled to help the boy survive — and possibly even make the escape that he never could.
Written by Officer and Motion, the cast also incluedes Thamela Mpulmwana, Donisha Prendergast, Shomari Downer, Olunike Adeliyi, Ronnie Rowe Jr., featuring Colm Feore, with Bruce Ramsay and Vic Mensa.
Charles Officer is a Canadian-British filmmaker. A former professional hockey player, Charles studied design at Ontario College of Art and worked as a creative director for major design and advertising agencies. He studied theatre at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York City and was a director resident at the Canadian Film Centre where his debut fiction feature Nurse.Fighter.Boy was produced. The film premiered at TIFF in 2008 and earned ten Canadian Screen Award nominations. His feature documentary, Mighty Jerome, produced by the National Film Board is a breathtaking rendering of the rise and fall of Harry Jerome, Canada’s greatest unsung track and field star. Simultaneously, Charles has been a director on multiple television series such as; Coroner (CBC), Ransom (CBS, Global, TF1), 21 Thunder (Netflix, CBC) and Private Eyes (ION Television, Global). His feature documentary Invisible Essence; The Little Prince is an authorized work about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s transcendent novella Le Petit Prince. Released in 2018, the film was sold internationally to Netflix and received two CSA nominations in 2019 for Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing. Akilla’s Escape is Charles’ latest feature set for release in 2020.
