Help support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!

Hi, my name is David, I'm a film critic, and every year I cut together my 25 favorite films of the past 12 months into a very long video countdown for some reason. You can watch them all on this website if you want.

The 2023 video is now live. I prefer it on Vimeo, but here's the YouTube

To help justify the embarrassingly absurd amount of time it takes me to make them, I've also used these videos as opportunities to fundraise for a series of invaluable non-profits.

For each of the last few years, I've partnered with the director of my #1 film to decide where the funds should go:

This year, I've unilaterally made the decision to donate any and all funds received to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a top-rated charity whose recent efforts have been dedicated towards providing urgent relief to displaced children and families in Gaza. I encourage you to visit the PCRF's website and read about how donations like yours — through fundraisers like this — have directly impacted living conditions in Gaza. They've provided water, medical supplies, critical essentials like baby formula, and so much more to people in the most desperate of need. With your help, I would love nothing more than to support this life-or-death mission amidst an ongoing genocide.

100% of the donated funds will go directly to the PCRF thru this GoFundMe.

This additional incentive has never been so obviously meaningless by comparison, but — as always — I'll commit to making another one of these videos for the movies of 2024 if we hit our goal of $30,000 (and with two small kids, that's not a commitment I make lightly).

These are hard times, and I understand that soliciting donations — even to the most valuable of causes — is a lot to ask. But this silly video is somehow the best leverage I have to help marshal urgently needed aid towards one of the worst humanitarian crises of my lifetime, so I sincerely hope those of you who can afford to give will join me in doing so. No amount is too small, and no amount is too big. Actually, I'm sure some amount is too big for the GoFundMe platform to handle, but, uh, I'd be happy to find that out the hard way.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

More information about The PCRF: The PCRF provides free medical care to children in the Middle East, regardless of their nationality or religion, who do not have access to the care they need. To accomplish this we operate a wide variety of programs that range from meeting the monthly medical needs of children with chronic conditions, to bringing volunteer surgical teams to the Middle East to perform life-changing and life-saving procedures and train local medical staff to creating the first pediatric cancer department in Palestine.