This session presents part of Serigne Ndiaye and Adams Sie's documentary film, "Fed Up" (2014) and examines how it breaks down barriers between film director and study abroad director, and between local constituencies and students studying abroad. The film illustrates alliances and alignments among citizenry, art, and politics to stand up for change during the 2012 Senegalese elections. Through directed questions after the screening, we'll invite audience members to discuss how this film functions as a way to explore topics of local awareness for students, provide a critical discussion of documentary film, and make the director an integral part of local history.

1. CIEE Annual Conference 2014
LOCAL
SYNERGIES
CINEMA, POLITICS, AND STUDY ABROAD
Serigne Ndiaye, CIEE Resident Director Dakar, Senegal
Carina Yervasi, Faculty Advisor for Off-Campus Study, Swarthmore
College

2. PRE-SCREENING QUESTIONS
What images do you have of Africa?
How did those images get formed? From which sources of
information? Personal experience, Education, Media, and/or
Other.
For study abroad advisors, teachers, and administrators:
What themes come up most often when advising students
about traveling to Africa?

3. Y’EN A MARRE/FED UP
(ADAMS SIE, SENEGAL, 2013, DOCUMENTARY,
19 MIN.)

4. POST-SCREENING QUESTIONS
What is your immediate reaction after seeing the film?
Let's go back to the original questions about images of
Africa...Has this film changed your ideas about Africa? If so,
how? If not, why not?
How can the images here impact or affect your advising for
students studying abroad?

5. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
New sources of learning
How does this film open up a
space of intellectual
conversation or dialogue?

6. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Empowerment
How might this film empower
youth other than those
depicted in the film?

7. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Social actors
How does this film address
the responsibility of educators
in host countries?

8. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Alignment
How might this film help you
reflect on why your campus
sends students abroad?

9. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Academics
How does this film address
standards of academic rigor?

10. POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
“To be continued…”
How can students remain active
engaged learners after their
return? Whose responsibility is it
to make this happen?

11. POST-SCREENING SYNTHESIS
“Y’en a marre / Fed-Up” ask us to consider…
--the nature of the relationship between local program and its
social partners and its US partners
--the authority of the local program
--the measure of experience and alignment while abroad
--an invitation to be more flexible in understanding
knowledge acquisition
--that students whom we want to have an impact on the world
know how to use those experiences to do so

12. CIEE Annual Conference 2014
LOCAL SYNERGIES
CINEMA, POLITICS, AND STUDY ABROAD
THANK YOU!
Serigne Ndiaye, CIEE Director Dakar
Carina Yervasi, Swarthmore College