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Love film to be shot in Kenya after intervention of State

Hollywood silver screen star Tony Goldwyn of the series Scandal (second right) together with Black Panther veteran and scriptwriter Jamal Joseph (left) and Kennedy Odede (right) when they were hosted by Kenya Film Classification Board CEO Ezekiel Mutua at Board offices on Uchumi House Monday 2.7.2018. [GEORGE ORIDO, STANDARD]

A movie about the love story between a Kenyan and an American will not be shot in South Africa as earlier planned.

The Government intervened to have the movie about Kennedy Odede and American Jessica, captured in the New York Times best seller Find Me Unafraid, filmed in Kenya. 

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