Hope for Kenyan orphans
Charles Mulli documentary in the works
Abandoned by his family at age six, Kenyan Charles Mulli survived alone until age 16, got a job and became a successful businessman. He then gave up his wealth to provide for slum children, calling them his own.
When the team of Scott Haze (Director), Elissa Shay (Producer) and Lukas Behnken (Producer) of Sterling Light Productions read Father to the Fatherless—a book documenting Mulli’s story and written by Canadian Paul Boge—they were deeply moved.
“There is nothing I am more committed to than using the medium of film to ignite minds and affect hearts of people across the world,” says Haze. “I couldn’t have been blessed with a more potent story than that of Charles and Esther Mulli.
“It’s stories like these that create global change and inspire us and generations to come. I just feel truly fortunate.”
John Bardis of Bardis Productions read the book, which inspired him to finance the film and set the project in motion.
Author Paul Boge is encouraged that Bardis Productions decided to take on the project and produce a documentary, entitled Mully, with plans for a Winter 2015 / Spring 2016 release.
“The Mully documentary will give audiences an opportunity to see why a man like Charles Mulli, who rose from the ashes of African poverty to become wealthy, would give it all up to rescue street children,” says Boge. “Scott Haze, Lukas Behnken and Elissa Shay are creating a critical film that will inspire us to examine how we look at our lives.”
In the making of this film, Sterling Light Productions spent many months on the ground in Kenya with Mulli and his Mully Children’s Family. Many of the rescued children are part of the documentary, as well as Charles, his wife Esther, their biological children, immediate family, and many other people who know him or know of him.
“All of our lives have been changed for the better as a result of working on this project,” says Behnken. “Traveling to Kenya for two very long journeys, filming in major international cities like Nairobi and in desperately poor slums, seeing beautiful new cultures and poverty on a level we had never known changed us on its own.”
Haze, Behnken and Shay hope the documentary will inspire people to incorporate more acts of service into their lives as well as highlight the huge impact Mulli has had in his home country.
“So much work is needed all over the world, and we can all make great impacts in our own local areas,” says Behnken. “We believe this film will lift hearts and eyes to a new level, taking viewers momentarily out of their own stories and reminding them of the beauty and transforming power of faith in action.”
“We hope everyone who sees it or hears of it shares it with others.”
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