Sandi Morais -Writer

Philip Michael Thomas/Actor/Producer will star in the film.

The film is currently in pre-production. Filming will take place in Miami, Jamaica and Orlando.  We are working with the Orlando Film Commissioner for locations in Orlando. 

FROM HOPELESS TO GREATNESS
The Joey Goodrich Story

Synopsis by: Sandi Morais
(Based on a true story)
To be filmed in Miami, Jamaica, Orlando, Virginia & Shanghai China.

   Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s Speech:

          "You are the stars and the world is watching you.
            By your presence you send a message to every village,
      every city, every nation.  A message of hope, a message of victory.”

        From Hopeless to Greatness is an inspirational, heart-warming story about two women from different cultures. Jamaican-born Sandi Morais, a thirty-five year-old Pre-School teacher and Patricia Goodrich, a forty year-old  American Caucasian, Executive Director of the Women’s Chamber of Commerce in Miami, Florida.  Both women were relentless in their pursuit to save Joey Goodrich, who was an intellectually and developmentally challenged Hispanic boy from being locked away.  Joey faced innumerable obstacles and roadblocks created by apathetic, indifferent case workers and a medical system that deemed him worthless and wanted to lock him into an institution to spend the rest of his life.

 
    1982 Mercy Hospital Miami, Florida a young Hispanic woman age nineteen is giving birth. We hear screams as the doctors and nurses surround her.  One nurse takes the new born baby boy from the mother over to the nurses station.  The baby is crying and going in and out of convulsion.  The woman is being wheeled into another room.  She is screaming “Don’t take my baby away, Please, don’t take my baby away.” ....................Con't
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     Carl Ferguson, the President & CEO of the Orlando Special Olympics office said,
“A film like this is necessary to help change the perspective of how people view children and adults with intellectual and developmental challenges.”

Internet Research:

  (About one baby born each hour is addicted to opiate drugs in U.S., U-M study shows
more mothers using drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, giving birth to babies with drug withdrawal, results of study published in JAMA.)

 (In the research published April 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
 U-M physicians found that diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug withdrawal syndrome among newborns, almost tripled between 2000 and 2009.)

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