Here's the trailer which was posted online three days ago: It's a story that begged to be transformed into a film, and it was Disney who obtained the rights. in 2014. She spoke at various events in an effort to raise awareness and money for a chess center to be built near her native village.Īccording to the program “has been so successful at engaging at-risk young people that the World Chess Federation (known as FIDE) has identified it as a model program.” In December 2013 Mutesi herself helped to organize the first-ever clinic for impoverished girls in Uganda, attended by no fewer than 447 girls.
Eventually she became one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history.Ĭrothers later turned the story into a full-length book, and Mutesi became a famous figure who made a tour throughout the U.S. The author Tim Crothers tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who lived in the slums of Uganda and was still learning to read when she first heard about chess.
It all started with ESPN's captivating long-read from January 2011 (posted online two years later) about Phiona Mutesi. The first official trailer has been released of Queen of Katwe, Disney's version of Tim Crothers' book, which was based on a true story: Phiona Mutesi's rise from the slums of Kampala, Uganda to her first trip on an airplane - to Siberia for the 2010 Olympiad.
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