Children of the Wind

Narrated by Gbenga Akinnagbe 'Children of the Wind' tells the story of the Bonaire windsurfers, a group of native Caribbean kids, who under the mentor ship of the remarkable Elvis Martinus, founder of the Bonaire Aquaspeed windsurfing club, overcame insuperable odds to not only dominate an inherently elitist sport but to revolutionize it. In fact, they single-handedly saved windsurfing from a steep decline, attracting new, younger participants eager to learn to freestyle the Bonairian way. The film focuses on brothers Tonky and Taty Frans and their cousin Kiri who come from a poor fishing family and began windsurfing before the age of ten, using whatever broken or discarded equipment they could scrounge, and who are now, twenty years later, global superstars. Tonky, Taty and Kiri burst onto the international scene in 2001 when, along with thirty or so other Bonaire sailors, they attended windsurfing's North American Championship in Florida. Given the island's economic status, just gett