A lifelong, talented musician, Justin Dillon skirted the fringes of success without making it "big." Despite having always been a conscious student of world affairs, filmmaking was never in his blood – or at least so he thought. Yet a 2003 show in Russia opened his eyes to the globe’s most overlooked social issue: human slavery, which, as revealed by his subsequent documentary debut, is more prevalent now than ever.

Due for national release on Oct. 10, "Call + Response" emotionally provokes its audience into action. Perhaps, too, Dillon’s creative, personal journey which brought politicians, musicians, academics and film stars together and included a global trek into slavery’s crannies, represents the ascendancy of one man from a solitary decrier of injustice into an agent of positive change.