(British 20 19 film director chiwetel ejiofor)

Riding on the Wind is a drama produced by Netflix, directed by chiwetel ejiofor and starring chiwetel ejiofor and Maxwell Simba. It premiered at Sundance International Film Festival on 20 19125? [1], 20 19 released in the UK in March 1? [2]。

Adapted from William Kamkwamba's autobiography "The Boy Riding the Wind", it tells a life-changing story: at the age of 13, Kamkwamba built a wind turbine with small pieces of metal scrap, old bicycle parts and wood and saved his village.

Kamkwamba, 13 years old, was expelled from school because his family had no money to pay the tuition fee of $80 a year. Loving learning, he sneaked into the school library and found a way to save the famine village: a simple but feasible windmill was built with the main frame of his father's bicycle, which provided much-needed electricity for the western region without interference from government power cuts. This invention also won Kamkwamba a scholarship from a professor in Malawi and had in-depth exchanges with other inventors on the African continent.

Adapted from a true story

Africa is a continent with very scarce power resources. Without electricity, many residents cannot enjoy the convenience brought by modern life. However, there are imaginative young people here. Although some of them can't afford to go to school, they always have a good wish to improve their lives and those of others.

William Kankuwamba, a 22-year-old boy from Malawi, is one of them. He has a beautiful and lofty ideal, that is, by building windmills, people all over Malawi can use electricity.

Eight years ago, 14-year-old Kankuwamba dropped out of school because his family was too poor to pay the tuition fee of $80 a year. He stays at home and usually reads books besides helping with some farm work. One day, he read about building a windmill that can be used to generate electricity in a textbook in the library, so he found waste car tires, waste bicycle wheels, old plastics and so on according to the introduction in the book to make his first windmill. Later, Kankuwanba also made a windmill for a local primary school to teach people the skills of making windmills.

The story of Kankuwamba spread on the Internet, and many people expressed their feelings and offered a helping hand to Kankuwamba. Someone sponsored him to go to the best school in Malawi, and someone bought him a mobile phone, a laptop and so on.

Now, William Kankuwamba is famous all over the world. He wrote his story in a book and wanted to tell everyone, "Believe in yourself and don't lose confidence. Whatever happens, don't give up. Even in the most difficult environment, a firm belief can still take you to the distance of your dreams! "