{"id":645750,"date":"2013-03-07T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72512"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:31:14","slug":"new-documentary-at-sxsw-traces-william-kamkwambas-journey-from-rural-malawi-to-the-ted-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645750","title":{"rendered":"New documentary at SXSW traces William Kamkwamba&rsquo;s journey from rural Malawi to the TED Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59617999\" width=\"586\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>William Kamkwamba built a windmill out of spare parts to provide electricity for his family in rural Malawi, after seeing a similar design in a library book. It\u2019s an incredible story &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html\">one that set TEDGlobal 2007 ablaze<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/62bf042b0b63a68f533b416cb412593dc98afd21_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a> Now, Kamkwamba is the subject of a new documentary, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/williamandthewindmill.com\/\">William and the Windmill<\/a><\/i>, which makes its world premiere at the SXSW film festival on Sunday, March 10. It is up for the festival\u2019s Documentary Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Ben Nabors, <i>William and the Windmill<\/i> begins with Kamkwamba\u2019s incredible feat of engineering but focuses on what happened after &#8212; as Kamkwamba becomes one young man straddling two cultures. It follows him as he travels to TEDGlobal, meets with renewable energy experts in the United States, enrolls in a pan-African high school, publishes a book and founds the nonprofit, <a href=\"http:\/\/movingwindmills.org\/\">Moving Windmills<\/a>, which aims to bring schools, clean water, solar power and scholarship programs to his area. The film even follows Kamkwamba on a media tour, as he films segments on <i>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/i> and <i>Good Morning America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>William and the Windmill<\/i> is an exploration of how ingenuity ripples out through the world, and the intense pressure that builds as this happens. As Kamkwamba says in the trailer, \u201cMy pressure comes when I\u2019m thinking about, \u2018Yeah, I did this and I did this. So, now what next?\u2019 Maybe people out there, they\u2019re waiting. Expecting a lot of things from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Nabor and TED\u2019s own Tom Rielly took to Kickstarter in 2011 to raise the funds to edit this film, pledgers donated more than $111K. So if you\u2019re at SXSW, make sure to see it. 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It\u2019s an incredible story &#8212; one that set TEDGlobal 2007 ablaze. 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