Unesco Chair Documentary

We are a team of filmmakers and UNESCO professors from the US, Ireland, and Poland the US, all dedicated to telling the story of Janusz Korczak, born Henryk Goldszmit (1878–1942), a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, educator, and author renowned for his progressive views on children's rights. We already have secured some grant funding for this important project through The Claims Conference and need your help to close the gap!

Using a mix of incredible archive, expert interviews, contemporary action and voice over from actor Cillian Murphy, patron of the UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, we're going to make a powerful, uplifting documentary. Telling how in 1912, Korczak founded the Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw, where he let the children run their world with children’s courts, newspapers and a government. He wrote extensively, including the influential How to Love a Child and The Child's Right to Respect. During World War II, he refused to abandon the children under his care, accompanying them to the Treblinka extermination camp, where they all perished. Korczak's life remains a powerful symbol of compassion, moral courage, and dedication to the welfare and humanity of children.

We are offering our donors some fantastic incentives to giving:

1 x Donation of $25,000 - You can dedicate the film in the name of a person of your choice
4 x Donation of $10,000 - You can be our dedicated Premiere host
5 x Donation of $5,000 - You will be a named Executive Producer of the film
10 x Donation of $1,000 - You will be named an Associate Producer on the film