Presented By: African Studies Center
ASC Film Screening and Discussion. Brief Tender Light
Discussion with Arthur Musah, Director and the Film Maker
Join the International Center, African Studies Center, and U-M Library for a thought-provoking film screening and discussion with Ukrainian-born Ghanaian filmmaker Arthur Musah.
Brief Tender Light (2023) is a documentary by Ukrainian-born Ghanaian filmmaker Arthur Musah '04, MNG '05 (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science). The film tells the story of four African MIT undergraduates on their journeys to become engineers: Sante Nyambo '15 (Civil Engineering/Tanzania), Fidelis Chimombe '15 (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science/Zimbabwe), Billy Ndengeyingoma '15, MCP '17 (Civil Engineering and Urban Studies & Planning/Rwanda), and Philip Abel Adama '15 (Computer Science & Engineering/Nigeria).
--- Synopsis ---
A Ghanaian filmmaker follows four African undergraduates through MIT, America’s premier technological university and his alma mater. The students embark on their MIT education with individual ambitions – to engineer infrastructure in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in Nigeria; to contribute to post-genocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to advance democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home.
While their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms and by the larger social issues confronting the world beyond those classrooms. Their new environment demands they adapt. Over an intimate, decade-long journey spanning two continents, students and filmmakers alike are forced to decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.
Documentary • 2023 • 93 mins • Color • HD (16:9) • Stereo/5.1
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Erika Dilday, Chris White
Director, Producer: Arthur Musah
Co-Producer: Brook Sitgraves Turner
Supervising Producer: Michael Kinomoto
Featuring: Philip Abel Adama, Fidelis Chimombe, Billy Ndengeyingoma, Sante Nyambo
https://www.onedayitoogofly.com/films/brief-tender-light/
Register at: http://myumi.ch/8rQ5P
Brief Tender Light (2023) is a documentary by Ukrainian-born Ghanaian filmmaker Arthur Musah '04, MNG '05 (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science). The film tells the story of four African MIT undergraduates on their journeys to become engineers: Sante Nyambo '15 (Civil Engineering/Tanzania), Fidelis Chimombe '15 (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science/Zimbabwe), Billy Ndengeyingoma '15, MCP '17 (Civil Engineering and Urban Studies & Planning/Rwanda), and Philip Abel Adama '15 (Computer Science & Engineering/Nigeria).
--- Synopsis ---
A Ghanaian filmmaker follows four African undergraduates through MIT, America’s premier technological university and his alma mater. The students embark on their MIT education with individual ambitions – to engineer infrastructure in Tanzania; to secure a better life for family in Nigeria; to contribute to post-genocide reconstruction in Rwanda; to advance democracy in Zimbabwe. Their missions are distinct but fueled by a common goal: to become agents of positive change back home.
While their dreams are anchored in the societies they have left, their daily realities are defined by America – by the immediate challenges in their MIT classrooms and by the larger social issues confronting the world beyond those classrooms. Their new environment demands they adapt. Over an intimate, decade-long journey spanning two continents, students and filmmakers alike are forced to decide how much of America to absorb, how much of Africa to hold on to, and how to reconcile teenage ideals with the truths they discover about the world and themselves.
Documentary • 2023 • 93 mins • Color • HD (16:9) • Stereo/5.1
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Erika Dilday, Chris White
Director, Producer: Arthur Musah
Co-Producer: Brook Sitgraves Turner
Supervising Producer: Michael Kinomoto
Featuring: Philip Abel Adama, Fidelis Chimombe, Billy Ndengeyingoma, Sante Nyambo
https://www.onedayitoogofly.com/films/brief-tender-light/
Register at: http://myumi.ch/8rQ5P
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