One Day I Too Go Fly

10/10/2025

🎬 🇺🇸🇬🇭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, is coming to the Bantu Film Festival 2025 – Decolonizing the Story of African Cinema.
Directed by 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐡.

𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬: Four African students travel to America to attend the elite MIT hoping to make their journeys abroad count for home. As they grapple with unexpected challenges, they must refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, and ultimately, how to transform youthful ideals into action as adults.

07/16/2025

07/16/2025

Colombia premiere of Brief Tender Light loading: September 16-20 at the Quibdo Africa Film Festival(QAFF) 2025!

05/27/2025

03/08/2025

LAS CRUCES, NM - Brief Tender Light will play at the 2025 Las Cruces International Film Festival on Sunday, April 13th at 2pm!

Four African students travel to America to attend the elite MIT hoping to become agents of positive change back home. As they grapple with unexpected challenges, they must refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, and ultimately, how to transform youthful ideals into action as adults.

Details & tickets at lascrucesfilmfest.com.

12/31/2024

BRIEF TENDER LIGHT director/producer Arthur Musah discusses the feature documentary film with Pulitzer-winning author Junot Díaz.

12/07/2024

Film critic Carla Renata chats with Brief Tender Light director Arthur Musah in the latest episode of the HALF HOUR WITH Director Talks series.

Among the many aspects of the film discussed is the Ghanaian 🇬🇭 director's coming out letter to his family during his college days as an international student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We're thinking of Ghana's LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ community and allies today especially as Ghana votes for a new government, when the two leading presidential candidates have chosen to whip up hate for q***r people in order to win votes. Ghana's Supreme Court is deciding whether a hate bill criminalizing LGBTQ+people can proceed to the president for signing, so the next Ghanaian president may be faced with whether to sign a horrible, unjust bill into law.

Watch the HALF HOUR WITH episode at: https://youtu.be/VOQyzL6ScvQ

11/09/2024

Announcing two special theatrical screenings of 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival alumni film Brief Tender Light.

For Your Consideration: Best Documentary Feature Film – BRIEF TENDER LIGHT

At America’s elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of change for their home countries Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

You’re invited to the following FYC screenings:

LOS ANGELES – Saturday, Nov. 16th @ 11:00AM

Screening + Q&A with director Arthur Musah moderated by David Massey

Regal L.A. Live, 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

RSVP: bit.ly/BTLFYCLA

NEW YORK – Tuesday, Nov. 12th @ 4:00PM

Screening + Q&A with director Arthur Musah and executive producer Erika Dilday

Sandbox Films, 915 Broadway, Suite 1001, New York, NY 10010 (on the 10th floor, government ID required)

RSVP: bit.ly/BTLFYCNY

11/02/2024

We're so proud of Brief Tender Light's Philip Abel Adama, now cofounder and CTO of Cleva Banking!

Imagine picking up a check for services rendered only to find you’d received only half what you expected—not because the figure on the check is wrong, but because the money itself is worth less than when you sent the bill, so you have less purchasing power. This is a common occurrence in Nigeria; in the last year alone, its currency experienced a 230 percent loss of value. To address this, Philip Adama Abel ’15 cofounded Cleva, a banking platform that enables individuals and businesses to use more stable US dollars for financial transactions. https://bit.ly/3AjGFVH