Soul to Soul: Rebecca and Call’s Story

My older brother Call has suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since he was 20. He is now 60 and the compelling part of his story is what happened in the 40 years between. Call disappeared from my life over 20 years and roamed the country, riding trains, sleeping on benches homeless and broken. Through a miracle I finally found him. My brother was a shell of his former self and suffering from severe paranoid schizophrenia.  From that day forward I made it my mission to try and bring my brother back from the depths of his illness.

With much discussion and trepidation my brother agreed to get help. Through the next 14 years of his treatment and recovery there were a lot of "ups and downs" for both of us, but I committed that I would not abandoned hope...or him. As the one-year anniversary of his treatment approached I had an overwhelming desire to film a documentary chronicling Call's journey and his road to recovery. I decided to take a leap of faith and tell our story and this film became my passion. There is this unfortunate stigma about mental illness, and not unlike Call, the mentally ill have a "soul and a purpose". The purpose of my film is to help remove the fear of the mentally ill due to a lack of knowledge. Fear is the lack of knowledge. During the process of making this film, I knew this was my and Call's purpose in life...to help people become aware of mental illness through hope, love, compassion and forgiveness.

We want others to know that thru "love and courage" loved ones of the mentally ill can stay together thru incredible challenges. Together they can alter the course of one persons life and thru them, the lives of many others. Our goal is to educate and heal, by helping people become more aware of the nature of mental illness on a profound level. I want people to connect "soul to soul".