Legacy
A Creative House Studios channel
True stories of people who built what was needed before anyone asked. Told with dignity, sourced with care, given room to travel.
01 Choose a door
Three ways in. Each one is a path someone chose.
02 On the channel
The films.
Legacy
Chiune Sugihara
Tokyo said no. He hand-wrote the visas anyway, and was still signing on the station platform the morning he left.Read the storyLegacy
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
In June 1940 he promised a visa to every refugee in need, free for those who could not pay. Thousands were issued. He died penniless.Read the storyWater
Scott Harrison
A burned-out nightclub promoter gave away almost everything he owned, talked his way onto a hospital ship, and turned his own rock bottom into clean water for millions.Read the storyWater
Gary White
A woman was paying a loan shark 125 percent interest for a toilet. Gary White saw that a small, fair loan could reach where charity couldn’t.Read the storyRecovery
Jelly Roll
He was in a jail cell the day his daughter was born, and years later sat before the U.S. Senate and admitted he had once been part of the problem.Read the storyRecovery
Chris Herren
His foundation says a hospital sent him back out on the street in June 2008. Now, when a family reaches out to Herren Project, someone reaches back.Read the storyRecovery
Patrick J. Kennedy
On his worst public night he chose to be open about addiction. Then he championed the law that says the help he hoped others would reach for has to be covered.Read the storyRecovery
Dr. Joy Allen
Not music as a miracle. Music held with skill, evidence, boundaries and care.Read the story03 Now showing
This week on the channel.
04 Sourced with care
Every story shows its work.
A voice reaches the channel only after its page is built: the story in full, the sources it was checked against, the organisation still carrying the cause, and a note from the curator.
What a page carriesShelly's take, the story in full, the film when there is one, the sources, the organisation carrying the cause, and a quiet way to stay close.
90 sourcesAcross 18 stories: archives, foundations, films and references, each one linked from the page it supports.
18 organisationsOne named on every page, still carrying the cause today, with why amplifying the voice carries their work forward.
The curator's note“We tell these stories with dignity, and amplify the people and organizations carrying their work forward today.” Shelly Frank signs every page.
05 Held to the Light
A note when a new voice is on the channel.
No campaigns, no asks.
Stay close
One note when a new voice is on the channel. Nothing else.
Where the stories are so far
The map grows as Water and Recovery films land.
The map fills as stories are ready.