Giant Little Choppers: Mozambique’s helicopter kid | Arts and Culture

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

Luciano Armindo is a shiny 12-year-old with a fascination for engineering and a exceptional interest: he collects cardboard and wire scraps and meticulously designs and builds life-size fashions of helicopters and automobiles exterior his residence in southern Mozambique.

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

Luciano hopes to someday flip his scrap fashions into precise automobiles, or perhaps a house rocket, and his engineering goals are pinned on a attainable scholarship.

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