Independent filmmaker Casey Neistat recently received an email from 20^th Century Fox, asking if he’d be interested in promoting with them Ben Stiller’s new film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. Casey’s response was this: Give me your money and I’ll spend every penny of it to help the people in the Philippines whose lives have been affected by the typhoon. The marketing team agreed and he was given $25,000. The result is a moving and emotional video that really brought a tear to our eye: http://youtu.be/jU7rhVub0rU “Mitty is a movie about chasing a dream and they wanted me to make a movie about chasing a dream” writes Casey. “I am a big dreamer but at that time only one thing came to mind; if I could do anything in the world right now what would it be? That's to help the victims of the typhoon,” he continued. “On a whim we decided to launch our very own relief mission. It was complicated and at first improbable but with the help of an extremely loving group of locals, all who were total strangers, we were able to stretch the production budget really far. “Beyond the food distributed in the video we also worked with a local nurse and purchased a lot of medicine and medical supplies, as well as providing tools to village leaders to be shared within the village and aid in the rebuilding process. “Never have I met such people with the resilience of these typhoon victims. There was one thing that stuck out, one big huge tiny thing, that was; of everyone we were face to face with, thousands of people, not once, at anytime for any reason did anyone complain. No one. Their focus was on rebuilding and healing, not sympathy.”