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Faisal Goes West "Identity is only what we make of it." Bentley Brown. Bentley Brown This movie is not yet out! Still in the rough cut and awaiting a soundtrack! According to its maker, Bentley Brown, a Texan who lived in Africa for many years, "Faisal Goes West" highlights a more global story of human (in)equality, the dignity and indignity of the migrant experience, as you know — especially in the US and parts of Europe, people coming from Africa are often profiled in a negative light, never given the benefit of the doubt that they are intellectual human beings. This is something our film feel seeks to question. Specifically, in ‘this movie' we are focusing on a reality in America, on the absolute over qualification of immigrants. "The film speaks to two kinds of audience in the USA. Firstly, to a generation of migrants, for whom there are direct parallels with the story told in the film. The second audience are the Americans who don’t re...