NY Theatrical Premiere
Q&A Details
- Fri Jan 5, 7pm: with Director Arthur Musah in conversation with Marcus Wright, Associate Producer, Sandbox Films.
- Sat Jan 6, 3pm: with Director Arthur Musah in conversation with Ekwa Msangi, filmmaker of Sundance award-winning Farewell Amor.
- Sun Jan 7, 12pm: Film participants Philip Abel Adama and Billy Ndengeyingoma, and director Arthur Musah in conversation with Karen McMullen, film curator and festival director/head of programming at Urbanworld Film Festival.
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 postgenocide 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, nearly decade-long journey spanning two continents, students and filmmaker 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.