Elephant Orphans

•  Title:  Elephant Orphans
• Logline: An American war veteran seeks a new

                    identity through a chance encounter with a 

                   beautiful African woman. 

• Genre: Docu-Drama
• Format: 2D HD Film 
• Length: 90 mins
• Language: English, Bantu Swahili 
• Shooting Locations: Kenya, Zimbabwe, US
• Schedule: late 2023
• Budget: TBD 
• Theme: No trade, no kill 
• Style: Docu-drama, in between these two films:
• "The Rider", "NomadLand"

  After suffering a near fatal injury in the Iraq war, Marine veteran Francis Keane returns home and finds it hard to fit in a country he no longer understands. In a desperate attempt to regain control of his life, Francis journeys to Africa, where he leads hunting safaris for rich foreigners. After a chance encounter with a beautiful young Kenyan woman, Nalah, a caregiver at an elephant orphanage, Francis becomes frustrated with catering to the rich and famous, he quits----gradually dedicating himself to Nalahand her orphaned baby elephant, Santo. Over time, they happily release the grownup Santo back to the wild. When Francis witnesses Santo’s brutal killing by poachers in a wildlife sanctuary years later, he struggles with the bitter realization that the orphanage‘s good works may be in vain, and that ivory poaching  is an unstoppable and powerful force of evil. 

By courageously facing his own despair and fear, Francis commits his life to saving elephants. He offers his military skills and knowledge to train male and female rangers’ with help of Nalah at the wildlife sanctuary, secures state-of-the-art equipment and technology with his foundation -- to monitor and fight against the poachers. He finally finds an overriding purpose to his life.