in the country Sunday afternoon to start work on a film about Jessica and Kennedy Odede.
Jessica and Kennedy are the founders of SHOFCO. They have a fascinating story about how they
met, fell in love and started one of the biggest charity organizations in Kenya.
The couple have written an internally acclaimed best-selling book titled 'Find Me Unafraid'. Tony and Jamal are in the country to begin the process of turning the book into a film.
Tony Goldwyn is an American actor, producer, director and political activist. He portrayed Carl
Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and most recently starred in the ABC drama Scandal, as Fitzgerald Grant III, President of the United States.
Among Tony’s directing credits are the films Conviction. A Walk on the Moon and the TV series The Divide, Justified and Dexter.
Jamal Joseph (formerly Eddie Joseph [1]) is an Oscar nominated American writer, director,
producer, poet, activist, and educator. Jamal wrote and directed the award winning film Chapter
and Verse and has written and directed multiple projects for STARZ, 20th Century Fox and A&E.
He is a full professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the
artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem. He has been featured
on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, BET's American Gangster and on Tupac Shakur's The Rose That Grew
from Concrete Volumes 1 and 2.
Kennedy Odede is an internationally recognized community organizer, a New York Times best
selling author, and co-founder of Shining Hope for Communities(SHOFCO), an innovative
organization that turns urban poverty into urban promise serving over 250,000 Kenyans across the
country’s slums.
Tony is passionately committed to this Kenyan story and sincerely hopes to be able to shoot the
film in Kenya.
Check out the photos of him in Kenya
