Join Engineers Without Borders for its movie night to watch The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as part of Engineering Week. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a 2019 British film, written, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in his feature directorial debut. It tells the true story of William Kamkwamba, the young Malawian genius who built a windmill entirely via DIY methods in the early 2000s, to save his family and village from drought and famine.