Life Story Movies
It's your grandchildren and great grandchildren who aren’t even born yet who will appreciate who you are and what you are about to do.
Have your kids been asking you to write a book?
Record your memoirs?
Do "something" with all your old photos and mementos?
Have you been feeling guilty about not having gotten it done yet?
Your Life. Your Story. Your Family.
A Life Story Movie is a deeply personal film about the people and experiences that have shaped your life.
While a Family History Film often looks backward across generations—exploring ancestors, genealogy, family origins, and the stories of a wider family—a Life Story Movie focuses much more closely on you and the people closest to you: your spouse, your children, your parents, and the life you have created together.
It is your biography, told in your own voice and brought to life with photographs, home movies, music, documents, and the memories of the people who know you best.
A Movie About the Life You Actually Lived
A Life Story Movie isn't simply a collection of facts and dates. It's about the experiences behind them.
How did you meet your spouse?
What was it like becoming a parent?
What were the turning points in your life?
What challenges did you overcome?
What decisions changed the direction of your family?
What were the happiest moments?
What did you learn along the way?
What do you want your children and grandchildren to understand about you?
A Comparison
Life Story Movie
Focuses primarily on you and your immediate family
A personal biography
Centers on your experiences, relationships, values, and life lessons
Often emphasizes your spouse, children and parents
Tells the story of the life you created
Personal memories and reflections are central
Designed primarily for your immediate family
Often feels intimate, conversational and autobiographical
Family History Film
Explores the broader family and generations
A family and genealogical history
Centers on family origins, ancestors and historical context
May include multiple branches of the family
Tells the story of where your family came from
Genealogy, historical research and family records may be central
Designed for a broader family audience
Often feels documentary and historical
It's easy to simply tell your story.
Through personal interviews, we capture the stories, memories, values, humour, lessons, and emotions that don't appear in a family tree or photo album.
Your photographs and home movies provide the visual history.
Your voice provides the meaning.
Your life story family history video is going to be the most amazing gift you’ve ever given!
A Family History Film might ask the question:
"Where did our family come from, and how did we get here?"
Your Life Story Movie answers the questions:
"Who were you, what was your life like, and what do you want the people you love to remember?"
Your Spouse and Children Are Part of the Story
Your life cannot really be separated from the people you shared it with.
That's why a Life Story Movie can include interviews with your spouse, children, siblings, parents, and other people who have played important roles in your life.
Your spouse might tell the story of how you met and built a life together.
Your children might remember what you were like as a parent—family vacations, traditions, funny moments, difficult times, and the lessons they learned from you.
Together, these perspectives create something much richer than a conventional biography.
They create a family portrait in motion.
"I'm so excited about getting my Life Story Movie that has to do with my life, my growing up, and my parents. I'm leaving it for my grandchildren so they know about me and their family. Cory was just terrific because he asked questions that brought the best out of me. He is very good at interviewing."
Bea Goldberg, 93
Life Story Movie Client
A Life Story Movie combines personal interviews with the visual materials that tell your story
Family photographs
Wedding and childhood pictures
Home movies
Family vacations
School and career memories
Letters and important documents
Awards and accomplishments
Favourite places
Family traditions
Music that has meaning to you
Photographs of your spouse, children and parents
Stories and memories contributed by family members
Rather than simply displaying these materials, we use them to illustrate the stories you tell.
A photograph of your wedding becomes part of the story of how you met.
A childhood photograph opens the door to a story about growing up.
A picture of your children can lead to memories about becoming a parent.
A career photograph can introduce the experiences and choices that shaped your professional life.
The result is a film that looks like your life and sounds like you.
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Why Your Kids and Grandkids Want You To Tell Your Life Stories and Family History
> You’ve lived through interesting times and they will be inspired by hearing your story.
> You (and not many others) know the stories of your parents and grandparents. You can honour them by ensuring their memory lives on.
> You know the names of the people in all those photos in your albums and boxes. Your kids will someday wish they knew the names, like you do.
> You’ve learned what is important in life and how to stay positive, hopeful, constructive, useful, loving. You can remind them in your movie.
> If your spouse has passed away, you know you’re the best person to tell their story so the next generation remembers who they were too.
More Than a Biography
A traditional biography records what happened.
A Life Story Movie captures what it felt like to be there.
It preserves your voice, personality, expressions, stories and perspective in a way that a written biography often cannot.
You can transmit personal blessing messages to each of your loved ones.
Years from now, your children and grandchildren won't simply read about you.
They will be able to see you, hear you, and experience your stories in your own voice.
And because the movie is created specifically for your family, it can include the little things that would never appear in an official biography—the family jokes, favourite sayings, memorable adventures, childhood stories, relationship stories and personal lessons that make your family unique.
A Legacy for the People You Love
A Life Story Movie is ultimately a gift to the people closest to you.
It gives your family a way to preserve not only what you accomplished, but who you were.
Your children may know the major events of your life. They may know where you worked, where you lived and when you got married.
But there are probably hundreds of stories they have never heard.
A Life Story Movie gives you the opportunity to tell those stories while you can still tell them yourself.
Your life is a story worth remembering.
Let's turn your memories, photographs and family stories into a personal movie your family can watch for generations.
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