Donisha Rita Claire Prendergast

A real-life incident in California involving three Black men wrongly accused of a criminal act inspires the story of a man lamenting as he comes face-to-face with the realities of being Black in the 21st century.

In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one grueling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.