Recently, I spent a night with some of the bravest people I have met in Ukraine.

They are energy workers in Donbas who go to work every day knowing their power station could be hit. They have lived through years of shelling, attacks and uncertainty, but they are still there, keeping the lights on for the people who remain.

I spent one night inside the station and included their interviews in my recent film about Kramatorsk. But after finishing that report, I was left feeling that their story deserved much more.

Because their story isn’t over.

As you read this, they are still going to work. They are still repairing what gets damaged. They are still keeping the station running. And now they are preparing for winter.

This could be the hardest winter they have ever faced.

I would love to go back and spend much longer with them, following their lives inside and outside the station and making a feature documentary about the ordinary people keeping a part of Ukraine alive under extraordinary circumstances.

But to do that properly, I need your help.

For the past two years, I have filmed, produced and edited almost everything myself. I love doing it, but a project like this is simply too much for one person.

I’ve already found an incredible producer and filmmaker who has worked on some major projects in Ukraine and wants to make this with me. Together, we estimate that we need around $10,000 to make the documentary properly.

That would cover our travel and accommodation in Donbas, additional camera equipment, production costs and the weeks of editing needed to turn everything we film into a feature documentary.

If we can reach the goal soon, we hope to return to Donbas and have the finished film ready by Christmas.

So much reporting from Ukraine understandably focuses on explosions, destruction and death. But after years of living and working here, I also want to show another side of this war.

The people who stay.

The people who rebuild something knowing it might be destroyed again.

The people who wake up, go to work and quietly keep their communities alive.

None of the workers I met had ever told their stories to the international press before. They would love the world to hear them.

Everyone who supports the film will be helping us make that possible, and supporters will have their names included in the credits of the finished documentary. My hope is then to submit the film to festivals and bring their story to audiences around the world.

If you watched my report from Kramatorsk, thank you. And if you can help us go back and finish this story, whether by contributing or simply sharing this page, it would mean an enormous amount to me and to the people who trusted me to tell it.

Please help us make The Last Power Station in Donbas.