Giant Little Choppers: Mozambique’s helicopter kid

A Mozambican boy who builds life-size fashions of helicopters and vehicles from wire and cardboard has excessive ambitions.

Luciano Armindo is a brilliant 12-year-old with a fascination for engineering and a outstanding passion: he collects cardboard and wire scraps and meticulously designs and builds life-size fashions of helicopters and vehicles outdoors his dwelling in southern Mozambique.

In Large Little Choppers, filmmaker JJ Nota follows the budding engineer and his brother as they create their outstanding replicas.

Luciano hopes to in the future flip his scrap fashions into precise automobiles, or perhaps a area rocket, and his engineering desires are pinned on a doable scholarship.

JJ Nota is a Mozambican filmmaker and co-founder of Afrocinemakers, a movie incubator venture. His 2020 movie, Ontogenesis, gained the nationwide quick movie competitors and was screened internationally at festivals. Since then he has made different award-winning quick movies.

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