Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2011
Capstone Advisor
Tula Goenka
Honors Reader
Richard Breyer
Capstone Major
Television-Radio-Film
Capstone College
Public Communications
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
yes
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Film and Media Studies | Radio | Television
Abstract
For my honors thesis, I created a documentary film about my experience in India this past summer.
What We Dreamed To Become depicts the journey of two people of the same African heritage: Dr. Pashington Obeng, an African Studies Professor at Harvard, and a native of Ghana; and a young Siddi boy named Budhesab Hussein.
The Siddis are an Indian ethnic group descended from African slaves. Pash has worked extensively with the Siddis for more than a decade, and hopes to create self-sufficiency within the group.
The young Budhesab has severe vision problems, and happens to join Pash on a trip to the eye doctors. In addition to his hope to receive proper medical attention, Budhesab also aspires to be a singer.
Despite a disappointing diagnosis at the end of the film, both people are able to achieve their own form of self-actualization.
Recommended Citation
Moore, Caroline Clark, "What We Dreamed To Become" (2011). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 213.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/213
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