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THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND
March 1, 2019  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

MOVIE PREMIERE: Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor directed this fact-based drama, about a young teen in Malawi who was witnessing his village falling victim to an encroaching famine, and decided to do something about it. Using books borrowed from a school library and materials borrowed from scrapyards, he designed and built a windmill, which furnished his village with both water and electricity. Ejiofor, who wrote the screenplay as well, also plays the father of the teen, William Kamkwamba, who’s played by Maxwell Simba (seen here with Ejiofor).

 
 
 
 
 
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