BEYOND THE CALL

5TH AVE CINEMA IS PROUD TO PRESENT Q&A WITH ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED DIRECTOR ADRIAN BELIC

Written/Directed/Shot by Adrian Belic Produced by Adrian Belic, Roko Belic and Nick Black
Edited by Jennifer Chinlund

Our 7 & 9:30PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, February 4th & 5th, 2011 will be followed by Q&A sessions with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Adrian Belic

NO RESERVATIONS, SO COME EARLY!

"An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heart-wrenching.” – Cinematical

"Adventurous...straight shooting intrepid trio...accruing eternal good karma…can't help but inspire." – LA Times

"Beyond the Call is the stirring and powerful account of these remarkable men, both on the road and in their homes. It's a brave and funny and uplifting film that makes you want to be a better person."
– Oregonian Newspaper

"Unlikely Heroes" – New York Times

"It's impossible not to admire their can-do spirit." – Variety

WINNER OF OVER 50 AWARDS ACROSS THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD

View the trailer at www.beyondthecallthemovie.com

About BEYOND THE CALL:

From the brothers who brought you the Academy Award nominated film Genghis Blues, comes the next great adventure... Beyond the Call…

In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three eccentric 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. Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman inspire through deeds not words, in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of war.

Screened at theaters across the US including Landmark and Laemmle. Aired nationwide on PBS's Emmy Award winning series Independent Lens.

Provided courtesy of Wadi Rum Productions. Not Rated.

ADRIAN BELIC (Writer/Director/Producer)

Adrian Belic was born in America of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian parents. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, USA, but spent many summers behind the "Iron Curtain" in Eastern Europe speaking the languages and living with family and friends. This unique cross-cultural upbringing sparked his curiosity about the way people view each other and the world around them. Listening late into the night to captivating stories from remarkable people both in the States and overseas drew him into the art of storytelling.

He began making films in elementary school with his childhood friend Christopher Nolan (writer/director Memento, (2001), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005)) and his brother Roko Belic. During their second year of filmmaking (at the age of 8) Star Wars exploded on the film scene and their once-quaint films grew into 3-minute Super 8 'epics' with ping-pong tables shrouded in cooking flour for planetary stop-action battles, continuing to live-action scenes in the snow-covered backyards of Chicago, all punctuated with fireworks and film frames scratched by hand for "laser" effects. The power of storytelling through motion pictures and sound captivated him.

Adrian graduated from University of Southern California in 1993 with a BS degree in Political Science and a minor in International Relations.

While in college and after college Adrian traveled around the world and across America. He worked with various producers -- co-producing, shooting video and film, recording sound, and story development. He served as the director of an environmental information center in Los Angeles for a year before a childhood fascination with a little known country in southern Siberia called Tuva resurrected itself.

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, as well as many domestic and international film festival awards, and a 2000 Academy Award Nomination for Best Feature Documentary.

Adrian recently completed his latest project Beyond the Call; a feature documentary shot in the Afghanistan and Asia about three Americans who travel to the world's war zones delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid (www.wadirum.com) (www.kbi.org). They are a cross between Mother Teresa and Indiana Jones.

Adrian is a member of the Film Arts Foundation and the International Documentary Association. He continues to speak and write about filmmaking and following ones passion, as well as teaching and serving on film festivals juries.

But most of all, he is working on his films and traveling the world.