Dan Boos, Thug, Issa Rae, Insecure, Issa Rae presents

The premise of the local short Thug comes from real life: Three aspirational actors—Simon Mutuyimana, Emmanuel John and Joshua Schlagenweit—shoot a film in the streets of Halifax. So, too, does the film’s critical story point, when a scene of violence is mistaken for truth. “They’re in a Starbucks parking lot and the cops pulled up […]