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Extreme Humanitarians

By Todd Lillethun

Handling Good Samaritans on film can be a daunting task. It’s difficult not to have reverence for people who throw themselves into harm’s way for the sake of helping others, but filmmakers still need to humanize them so that they won’t appear out of reach to the audience. Beyond the Call, a new documentary by Adrian Belic, who directed the Academy… return to article

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