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In a story about this year’s film Brookly festival BAMcinemafest, Filmmaker Magazine focuses on several of the entries, including William and the Windmill, about William Kamkwamba ’14 and his project to bring electricity to his home in Malawi.

The documentary, which premiered at the SXSW festival and won the Grand Jury Prize, “explores the extraordinary journey of William, in which he’s successively an ingenious builder of a family windmill in Africa, a high-school student in South Africa, an author on a national book tour, and a student at Dartmouth College in America,” writes Filmmaker.

Read the full story, published 7/2/13 by Filmmaker Magazine.