Australian director Camille Hardman's most recent documentary, the well-received Big Dreamers was a comedic and heartfelt look at one man's struggle to build the World's Biggest Gumboot as a way of ensuring his small town of Tully stayed on the map. Hardman's current project, The Altruist, definitely makes for a change of pace from Big Dreamers. With its heartbreaking core, The Altruist explores the lives of children in the Sihanoukville province in Cambodia, where paedophilia is considered the norm. Hardman's interest in the troubles of the Cambodian children first sparked when her childhood family friend, John McGinley, began recounting stories of his experiences there, including a horrendous incident he witnessed between a paedophile and one of the street children he had befriended.
- 12/1/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
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