SummaryIn 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 chaos of... Read More
Directed By:Lior Etziony, Michal Hanuka
Call for Help
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Feb 3, 2015
60
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.
Feb 3, 2015
50
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.
Feb 5, 2015
40
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.
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