directors chat
Filmmakers Charles Officer (director of ‘Akilla’s Escape’) and Ian Kamau (director of ‘We Went Out’) discuss the themes of generational trauma, growing up in the in-between spaces, and negotiating identity as racialized youth that is so prevalent in their films.
Akilla’s Escape
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Akilla Brown (played by Saul Williams) 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.
We Went Out
SCREENING AT THE DRIFF DRIVE-IN JULY 21 AT DUSK
This short film features members of Toronto's hip hop community in the '90s and '00s. It pays homage to people who became adults in those in-between spaces that aren't often valued, but are an important part of Toronto's cultural landscape.
