Tag: Bruce Ramsay

Akilla’s Escape weaves together two different timelines in Brooklyn and Toronto while tackling social issues that remain in the limelight. During a drug trade-gone-bad, Akilla Brown (Saul Williams) captures a teenage and mute Jamaican boy, Sheppard (Thamela Mpulmwana).  His youth comes back to him when Akilla learns that Sheppard is a affiliated with the Garrison Army.  It just so happens that Akilla’s grandfather founded the Jamaican crime syndicate.  Akilla left the life some time ago…