Dinesh D’Souza opens up about his upcoming documentary, ‘Obama’s America: 2016′

“[The film] is not a crude bashing of Obama. … It’s a journey to find the real Obama. Obama [has been] a mystery figure for the past four years – mystery as to what his underlining goal is for America and for the world,” D’Souza said in an interview with The Daily Caller.

The film is based on both his best-selling 2010 book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” and the upcoming “Obama’s America.” It features the author’s travels to Hawaii, Indonesia and Kenya.

“The film is an attempt to show Obama’s world…through conversations with people who knew Obama in the landscape that Obama was shaped by,” D’Souza said. “So there are two journeys in the film: my journey to find out who Obama is, and Obama’s journey to find out who he is.”

One portion of the film, D’Souza said, reinforces the thesis he laid out in “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” — that Obama’s worldview is shaped by his Kenyan father’s anti-colonialist anger towards the West and its dominance.

In his travels, D’Souza interviews many figures from the president’s past, including his half-brother, George Obama, who lives in a shack in Nairobi, Kenya that D’Souza likens to “something out of ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’”