When we blogged about this film to mark Holocaust Memorial Day a few weeks ago we had no idea what would happen next.
You will need to view this film on YouTube.
A friend of ours from Slovakia, Zuzana Suchová, saw our post and got in touch.
Zuzana is a phenomenal human being. We met her when we spoke together at an event in Slovakia when she shared her digital fundraising story from the winning 2019 presidential campaign that saw the election of Slovakia’s first woman president.
Zuzana knew that the film would be a great way to combat the rise of a vile far right, Neo-Nazi party who were polling high in the Slovakian elections. And she asked if we could help connect her to the film’s makers, because she wanted to make a Slovakian version with Slovakian sporting celebrities. Time was of the essence because when she asked us there were only 35 days until polling day.
We decided we wanted to do everything we could to make this happen. Because, we really don’t like Nazis.
A friend of ours Juliet, connected us to Malcolm, the film director who made the original film for the Holocaust Memorial Centre here in the UK.
Malcolm is amazing. He provided all the support and guidance the team in Slovakia could ever ask for. And more.
Malcolm connected us to Marc. Marc is the Interim CEO at the Holocaust Memorial Centre. Marc was also amazing, saw exactly what we were trying to do and made it very easy for us to do it.
And then Zuzana and a group of Slovak activists, filmmakers, production professionals and sports celebrities made it happen. Lots of late nights, lots of video calls and a few wobbles later they launched this.
And they did it in less than 20 days from getting approval to launching the film.
We couldn’t be more proud of them, everyone else who collaborated to make this happen and our small role in making it happen.
And that Neo Nazi party in Slovakia? They did much worse in the elections than the polls said they would. Which is great, because we f*cking hate Nazis.