The Solidarity Fund: The Most Urgent to the Most Vulnerable

Not even a month into the beginning of the pandemic and the first hard lockdown, Laurence Hamburger and Groundglass, newly-affiliated, and looking to collaborate with brands and institutions interested in long-form documentation, found themselves being approached by TBWA HuntLascaris about a new initiative that they were working with – a multi-pronged business-led Fund to help assist the national effort in the fight against the pandemic called The Solidarity Fund. Two and some years later, the various obstacles of access and distribution finally sorted out, the film, ‘The Most Urgent to the Most Vulnerable’ has been playing for two weeks on five local TV channels and online. Tasked with bringing together in two and half months, what was over 30 narrative strands, comprised of nearly 75 hrs. of field work and interview footage, the production used nearly six camera persons, and five editors across the span of the production.