Children of the Wind tells the story of young children from the island of Bonaire who journey from humble beginnings to international fame in the sport of windsurfing, transforming not only their island but the face of the sport worldwide.

It all began with a tall man named Elvis Martinus, who belonged to a poor fishing family on the island. Along with friend and Olympic veteran Patun Saragoza, the two scraped together funds by fishing to start a small windsurfing operation for the local kids: the Aquaspeed Club.

In 2001, Bonaire sent a flock of thirty children to the biggest North American Championship in Florida. They blew everyone away, taking home twenty trophies, an unprecedented achievement for any country much less a tiny Caribbean island. What many didn’t realize, however, were the humble backgrounds from which these children came, particularly brothers Tonky and Taty Frans who never knew their father and left home at ages 6 and 7 with their cousin Kiri to live with their grandparents and learned to sail on old broken equipment.

The Frans brothers and Kiri are now among the top five freestyle windsurfers in the world and have become local heroes on their island. More remarkable: Bonaire continues to produce young champions at every age category of the ProKids World Championship, which started on the island.

How could an island of 13,000 people with limited resources and no formal training facilities produce so many world class athletes? To uncover this question, Children of the Wind follows the Bonaire children over the past 15 years from modest beginnings to the cover of magazines. Unlike most windsurfing films that focus on action intensive sequences, this is not just a windsurfing story, it’s a human story. Windsurfing is the powerful metaphor but it is the example of passion and determination that the kids so powerfully provide that lies at the heart of our story.