Description:
In a Mother Teresa meets Indiana Jones adventure, three middle-aged men, former soldiers and modern-day knights, travel the world delivering life saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, the front lines of war. Ed Artis, Jim Laws, and Walt Ratterman are self-styled Knights of Malta who in 1995 formed Knightsbridge International, a unique humanitarian aid organization whose motto is "High Adventure and Service to Humanity." As Artis explains, "We're not there to change anybody's politics, we're not in the God business, and we pay our own way." Their specialty is going where death from landmines, bullets, or bombs is as frequent as death from hunger, disease, or the elements. Their personal convictions and courage drive them to places such as Afghanistan, Albania, Chechnya, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Rwanda, and the southern Philippines, often when few if any other humanitarian aid organizations are around. The camera follows Artis, Laws, and Ratterman as they take us on a journey into the heart of humanity and the soul of courage.

Biography:
Born in America of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian parents, Adrian grew up in Chicago, but spent many summers behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe with family and friends. This unique cross-cultural upbringing sparked his curiosity about the way people view each other and the world around them. He began making films in elementary school with his friend Christopher Nolan (writer/director Memento [2001] and Insomnia [2002]) and his brother Roko Belic. Adrian graduated from USC in 1993 with a BS degree in political science and a minor in international relations. Adrian and his brother, Roko, formed Wadi Rum Productions in 1995 and embarked on their first production Genghis Blues, winner of the 1999 Sundance Audience Award and a 2000 Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary. Adrian is a member of the Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco Film Society, and the International Documentary Association.

Contact Information:
Adrian Belic, Director/Producer
Wadi Rum Productions
wadirum1@aol.com
http://www.beyondthecallthemovie.com/

FILMS

America's Brutal Prisons
Are the Kids Alright?
Baghdad ER
Between Two Stones: Nepal's Decade of Conflict
Beyond Iraq
Beyond the Call
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Blowing Up Paradise
Busting Out
Bystander
Epitaph
In the Tall Grass
Independent Intervention
Interview with an Executioner
La Sierra
Lessons in Fear
Lima's Streets
Malaria: Killer Number One
The Man Who Saved a Million Brains
The Peacekeepers
Pilgrimage
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border
Rosita
The Shape of Water
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Small Town Gay Bar
They Chose China
Thin
The Tribe
True Whispers
The Tsunami Generation