Chiwetel Ejiofor's Directing Debut Takes Him To Malawi To Capture 'The Wind'
The English actor performed in, directed and wrote the screenplay for The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. It's based on a memoir by William Kamkwamba, whose ingenuity helped save his village from famine.
Chiwetel Ejiofor is best known for his starring role in the movie 12 Years a Slave. Now he's making his directorial debut.
A decade ago, the English actor of Nigerian descent picked up a best-selling memoir called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. It's about William Kamkwamba, a schoolkid in Malawi whose ingenuity helps save his village from famine.
"I started off thinking that I would adapt it," Ejiofor says in an interview. "That was my first, sort of, plan. And then in the process of doing that, it sort of became clear, especially when I started to travel to Malawi
