Arthur Musah

Arthur Musahis a filmmaker and engineer from Ghana, Ukraine, and the United States. His 50-minute documentary “Naija Beta” (2016) played at festivals in the U.S., Africa, and Europe, and won the Roxbury International Film Festival’s Best Documentary Short and the Silicon Valley African Film Festival’s Achievement in Documentary awards, among others. Musah studied filmmaking in the M.F.A. program at the University of Southern California as an Annenberg Fellow. He also earned a bachelor’s and a master’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, to which he returned to film “Brief Tender Light,” a feature-length longitudinal documentary following the lives of four African students through the American college experience and beyond. “Brief Tender Light” secured an ITVS co-production in 2021 for PBS broadcast won the 2020 Paley Center for Media’s Doc Pitch competition, and has been supported by the DCTV Docu Work-In-Progress Lab, Cinephilia Bound, the California Film Institute’s DocLands DocPitch, the Hot Docs Forum, the Gotham Documentary Lab, and hundreds of backers on Kickstarter. The film is currently in post-production. Musah lives in New York, where in 2021 he co-organized protests against Ghana’s LGBTQ+ hate bill and otherstate-sanctioned violence against Ghana’s queer community.