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Biography |
Born in Montreal, Canada, is an airline pilot by profession.
In 1998, he joined Saudi Arabian Airlines as an MD-11 captain based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Shortly after starting his assignment, he began scuba diving in the Red Sea, steadily working his way through various diver training programs until becoming a certified Dive Master.
From sport to passion, he began to take an intense interest in recording the underwater images unique to the Saudi Arabian Red Sea, spending more than three years and nearly five hundred dives in and around the reefs near Jeddah, capturing on film the natural beauty and diversity of marine life in the region.
‘Ali Kabuk Was Here’ is his first film, one that he hopes will open a small window on the treasure that is the Saudi Arabian Red Sea, and the ultimate fragility of that beauty. |
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Contact |
Tom Hamilton 6550 Beecher Road, Granville OH 43023 USA Tel.: 518-409-0479
Fax: 740-927-9079
E-mail: tom@redseapictures.com |
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Composers |
| This film was conceived, written, produced, filmed, edited, narrated, original soundtrack and score composed and performed, and fully funded: | by Tom Hamilton |
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Summary |
The Saudi Arabian Red Sea has historically been a difficult place to reach, due to the very strict requirements imposed upon visitors by the government of that Kingdom.
Hence, little is known about that region of the Red Sea, and until now, even less recorded by underwater cameras.
‘Ali Kabuk Was Here’, was filmed in and around the stunning reefs north and west of the coastal city of Jeddah over a period of three years, and represents a visual distillation of nearly five hundred individual dives.
RSP’s underwater lens captures not only the incredibly diverse, rarely seen natural beauty of KSA’s Red Sea, but its increasingly perilous fragility as well.
Tom Hamilton about his film With each new marine study, it is becoming all too clear that the natural treasures bequeathed to us by the coral seas of the planet are in grave peril of extinction.
Without immediate and massive intervention, this is likely to happen in just one or two generations.
This film has been several years in the making, and even during that relatively short time, I have observed first-hand the accelerating deterioration of the Red Sea’s coral reefs.
This short movie and the images contained herein, it is hoped, will serve as an urgent message, a call to action, to the custodians of the Red Sea.
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