As we come to the end of a very strange and often very dark year, we re reflecting on a lot of things and taking stock of what s helped us get through. For visionary author Neil Gaiman and visionary director Guillermo del Toro, two things come to the fore in the kind of year-end reflection: The importance of helping others and, of course, the importance of finding hope in stories. In a new video conversation between the two titans of fantasy, they stressed the importance of both.
Gaiman and Del Toro, longtime friends who ve also worked on projects together in the past, joined together this week to support Films of Hope, an initiative hosted by IMDb to raise funds for COVID-19 relief that will specifically go to help refugees. Gaiman has personally served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for several years now, and this endeavor also functions as a partnership with them to help people who have become even more vulnerable in 2020.