USA Africa Dialogue Series - One day I too go fly

The Film

ONE DAY I TOO GO FLY is a 4-year chronicle of how 5 students from Tanzania, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zimbabwe become engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As they arrive from varied African backgrounds and immerse themselves in the challenge of rigorous academics and navigating a new world, we witness them receive an elite education and grow into their adult selves.

What happens to them over four years as they are molded into first-class engineers at America's top technological university? How do their relationships with their home countries evolve? What becomes of their dreams to make an impact on the world? As they are pushed by MIT to explore beyond the limits they defined for themselves, we discover with them who they become as a result of the experience. While their experiences are intimate and personal, ultimately these young people are crucial components of their countries' intellectual capital, and their journeys in America will affect their homes.

As the project's director, I'm making this film for a number of reasons. I wanted to attempt an in-depth depiction of undergraduate life at MIT – to capture the essence of the gradual process of becoming an engineer. I wanted also to tell a story about how a teenager becomes an adult in a college environment – how what you know and believe about yourself and the world are tested and refined by collisions with new ideas, people and experiences. But most importantly I wanted to make a film that would take a new look at Africa today, because my passion for filmmaking stems from my desire to document my Africa. Hence our focus on 5 ambitious students from the continent whose lives meander across multiple continents and will telescope to us an African experience rarely explored in cinema.

Support their kickstarter campaign.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820684617/one-day-i-too-go-fly-documentary-production

http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2012/11/26/alums-documentary-captures-lives-of-african-mit-students-and-reveals-modern-africa/

Disclaimer
I have no affiliation with the producers of the film. I just believe this is an important story that should be told by Africans for a change.

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