Now he's the star of a new award winning Kenyan documentary, Softy, which shines a spotlight on the country's battle with corruption.

The film, which swept up awards at the Sundance and Durbin film festivals, follows his evolution into politics.

Wow, it's going toe topple the government.

But between death threats, family turmoil and sending their Children to safety in the US it's ultimately a film about how a family can survive such pressure, Boniface says.

Change can't happen alone.

What I've learned in a very painful way during this entire process that changes or an event.

You don't have one event Allah and this change.

It's a very slow, painful marathon.

Kenya is East Africa's richest nation, but its booming economy has an ugly underbelly.

Runaway corruption has trapped millions in poverty.

Extrajudicial police killings are common on elections punctuated by deadly violence.

Softly begins with Bonnie face outraged by the 2000 and 7 to 8 election violence, it documents his journey towards creating his own political party.

A decade later, Jerry is his wife and fellow activist.

By the time he was telling me that this is going to have a lot of my life.

I was very afraid.

I was like No, no, no, no, that's not what we talked about.

This is not it can't be But when he told me the importance of it and I saw what this really is doing for not just me but the families off human right defenders of activists, I was like Okay, I want people to know what that we exist.

I want people to know that we struggle.

I want people to know that our Children really struggle.

Filmmaker Sam Soccer, who is an activist himself, said the film started out as a five minute YouTube clip about organizing a protest.

It sprawled into a seven year project now streaming on PBS in the United States on Britain's BBC manifest.