
Mar 24
Rosendale Theatre Collective Rosendale, NY
Wendy Saul
Ph.D., Past President, International Book Bank
andJoanne Sandler
Senior Associate, Gender At Work
andCameron Zohoori
Documentary Filmmaker, Vignette Creative
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind— The promise of ingenuity
Program Description
Details to come! Presented as part the 2021 National Evening of Science on Screen.
Presented At
Rosendale Theatre Collective Rosendale, NY
Film Synopsis
A boy in Malawi helps save his village from famine by building a wind turbine after reading about them in a library book.
Young William Kamkwamba lives with his family in rural Malawi, where he attends school regularly and shows great aptitude for his studies. Yet after land development and poor weather lead to a meager harvest, famine strikes the village, alarming the community and forcing William to drop out of school when his father (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can no longer afford the fees. Determined to find a way out of the life-threatening situation his family is facing, William sneaks into the school library to research—and soon conspires to build a windmill pump to irrigate the land. Caught between his father’s close-minded skepticism and the difficulty of creating a machine out of bicycle parts and scrap materials, William races against the clock to fight for his community’s survival. This inspiring true story about the powers of science, engineering, ingenuity, and determination is based on Kamkwamba's 2009 memoir of the same name.
Banner image courtesy of PHOTOFEST