Brother Number One tells the story of Kerry Hamill, who disappeared while sailing in the gulf of Thailand. Photo / SuppliedBy Peter Calder
Thursday Mar 8, 2012
Auckland film-maker Goldson adds to her already-impressive CV with this unsensational but powerful documentary about one man's pilgrimage to Cambodia to bear witness for his brother, murdered in 1979 by the genocidal machine of the fanatical Pol Pot. Along the way, and not incidentally, he disinters for the viewer the horrors wrought on the Cambodian people at large.
The film's success owes much to its main "character". Rob Hamill, who achieved wide renown as a rower in the 1990s, was just a teenager when his eldest brother, Kerry, disappeared while sailing in the Gulf of Thailand. The news of his fate was a long time coming, and cruel when it came: the yacht that Kerry part-owned had inadvertently strayed into Cambodian waters and Kerry - along with two others, Canadian Stuart Glass and Englishman John Dewhirst, had been killed. Read the rest of article at The New Zealand Herald.
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