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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary In the aftermath of one of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a group of young individuals form a guerrilla-style NGO (Global Disaster Immediate Response Team—Global DIRT) without substantial funding or a celebrity spokesperson. Resorting to an 'ends justify the means’ method to deliver relief, their snatch and grab approach fits well in the...

Directed By: Lior Etziony, Michal Hanuka

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 27 m

Call for Help

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Summary In the aftermath of one of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a group of young individuals form a guerrilla-style NGO (Global Disaster Immediate Response Team—Global DIRT) without substantial funding or a celebrity spokesperson. Resorting to an 'ends justify the means’ method to deliver relief, their snatch and grab approach fits well in the...

Directed By: Lior Etziony, Michal Hanuka

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Feb 3, 2015
Etziony and Hanuka's on-the-fly footage suggests that DIRT's desire to help in Haiti was noble, but that its success in making a difference was minimal at best — thus leaving the film feeling primarily like a critical snapshot of how dysfunctional Western humanitarians often use overseas crises for their own ends.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Feb 3, 2015
It’s rich territory, and Etziony and Hanuka manage to make both the film’s action sequences and its interviews compelling and interesting. But Call For Help drags in its second half, particularly in an interlude back in the States that makes the same point over and over again.
By Matthew Dessem FULL REVIEW
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Feb 5, 2015
If the point of Call for Help is to glorify a handful of off-the-grid heroes, it fails. If the point is to follow some young people who took their aimless wanderlust to a trouble spot and perhaps created more problems than they solved, it succeeds.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Feb 6, 2015
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.call4helpmovie.com/
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