Capturing Tim Don's comeback on camera
Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Andrew Hinton likes to focus on the positives. As director of The Man with the Halo, the story of Ironman triathlete Tim Don’s recovery from a broken neck, he was not short of material. Why making the inspirational film was an inspiring experience.
Kelly Don: My husband and his haloKelly Don, wife of champion Ironman Tim Don, gives her perspective on Tim’s road to recovery from a broken neck.- Taken to the Edge: Andrew HintonInspired to travel to India by a bank manager using his position to bring about social change, the documentarian Andrew Hinton kept returning to find stories and people who inspired him. He spent 18 days living on a train to document the Jagriti Yatra and met a paperboy in Jamshedpur who he followed for a day, creating a short film which won a Vimeo Documentary Award. Hinton's best-known work is Tashi and the Monk. The story of a new arrival at a remote children’s community in the foothills of the Himalayas won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary.
