At the elite MIT, four African students strive to graduate into agents of change for their home countries.

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A Ghanaian MIT alum follows four African students at his alma mater as they strive to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, nearly decade-long journey, all must 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.

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* “Arthur Musah's documentary Brief Tender Light follows four African students' journeys at MIT” - Review in The Boston Globe ([link removed])

* “Latitudes: A new film shines a light on the experiences of international students from Africa” - Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education ([link removed])

* “New documentary features African students at MIT and their journey far from home” - Interview on Under the Radar ([link removed])

* “Arthur Musah Shines a Brief Tender Light on the International Student Experience at MIT” - Interview on Making Media Now ([link removed])

* “Can youthful idealism survive college in a far-away land? An interview with filmmaker Arthur Musah” - Interview in The Tacoma Ledger ([link removed])

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Brief Tender Light | Message from a Filmmaker | POV | PBS

“At its core, Brief Tender Light is about whether youthful idealism can survive the process of growing up. How does time, and iterations of trying and failing on projects gradually transform one into an engineer? How does a new world become home? How does a Black African become aware of racism in America? How does one’s identity shift, and how do different people weigh living for their community’s expectations versus their own desires? As a gay man, I also drew on my experience of turning away from Ghana and towards America in search of freedom to inform the film.”
- Arthur Musah, Filmmaker
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