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Akilla's Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story speaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks.Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approval legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery.In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.

本作品是一部温暖的充满正能量的少儿励志电影。演员及主创和拍摄团队均是国家一线水平，台词考究、画面唯美，情节振奋人心。故事的中心思想紧贴国情走向，积极向上的故事情节暨宣扬了中华民族的传统美德又寓教于乐，是影视剧关于少儿影片的题材中为数不多的值得宣扬的正能量精品影片。