Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
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From: Arthur Musah <amusah@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "amusah@gmail.com" <amusah@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012 1:11 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: MIT African Students Documentary
Reply-To: "amusah@gmail.com" <amusah@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012 1:11 PM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: MIT African Students Documentary
Dear Professor Falola,
The film is called ONE DAY I TOO GO FLY, and is a coming of age story about 5 young Africans on a quest for knowledge at an elite American university, MIT. It's a 4 year project, chronicling the students from their first steps at MIT to their graduations, and exploring the challenges that both MIT and life in the US will throw at them. The documentary goes one step further in following them home during their winter and summer breaks to explore their backgrounds and see how life in the US has impacted them and their communities (example: one of the students last summer introduces the concept of robotics to high-schoolers in Lagos).
My team and I have been filming for a year and a half now. We recently put together a video teaser of the film and launched an online fundraiser on Kickstarter to help pay for the next 2.5 years of production. You can see the video and details of the film at http://kck.st/ZYneGN. Additionally, the MIT Alumni Association recently profiled the project in this article.
My name is Arthur Musah, a Ghanaian graduate of MIT currently creating a documentary I hope might be of interest to you.
The film is called ONE DAY I TOO GO FLY, and is a coming of age story about 5 young Africans on a quest for knowledge at an elite American university, MIT. It's a 4 year project, chronicling the students from their first steps at MIT to their graduations, and exploring the challenges that both MIT and life in the US will throw at them. The documentary goes one step further in following them home during their winter and summer breaks to explore their backgrounds and see how life in the US has impacted them and their communities (example: one of the students last summer introduces the concept of robotics to high-schoolers in Lagos).
My team and I have been filming for a year and a half now. We recently put together a video teaser of the film and launched an online fundraiser on Kickstarter to help pay for the next 2.5 years of production. You can see the video and details of the film at http://kck.st/ZYneGN. Additionally, the MIT Alumni Association recently profiled the project in this article.
Would this project be something you could pass on to your network? We have funded the production ourselves thus far, and are now seeking to reach as large a community of supporters interested in helping bring this story to fruition as possible. We would appreciate any help or advice you can give my team and me.
I wish you all the best and look forward to hearing back from you.
I wish you all the best and look forward to hearing back from you.
Kind regards,
Arthur
Mobile: 469-878-3517
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