Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrench sales company Wide Management has boarded Charles Officer’s crime-noir “Akilla’s Escape,” which world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
The film is headlined by poet-musician-actor Saul Williams, who also collaborated with Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack to create the original score.Williams stars in the film as Akilla Brown, a 40-year-old drug trader who is caught in the middle of a violent robbery after a routine deal goes bad.
Weaving present-day Toronto and 1990s Brooklyn, the movie follows Akilla as he tries to set things right and capture one of the thieves, a 15-year-old boy named Sheppard.
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