A life film. A lasting monument. The most meaningful commission a family can make — for a parent, a founder, a matriarch whose story deserves more than a slideshow.
A feature-length life documentary with original music, multiple production visits, interviews with family and friends, and a premium hardcover Legacy Book. This is what you give instead of a funeral. This is what you screen at the 80th birthday.
Story Legacy is not an interview series. It is a feature documentary — directed, scored, photographed, and edited with the craft you’d expect from a film festival premiere.
We come to your family’s home, the places that shaped your loved one, the rooms where the most important moments happened. We interview the people who knew them best. We score it with original music. We present it on a screen, in a room, with the people who matter most.
This is what grandchildren show their grandchildren.
This is what you give instead of a funeral.
This is what you screen at the 80th birthday. This is the heirloom that outlasts all of us.
Story Legacy commissions vary based on production length, number of locations, archival work, and screening events. Every commission is bespoke.
| Commission | Investment |
|---|---|
| Signature Legacy — single subject, 1–2 locations, 45–60 min film | From $25,000 |
| Heritage Legacy — multi-location, family interviews, 60–75 min film | From $50,000 |
| Patriarch / Founder Legacy — bespoke, archival, 75–90 min film + screening event | $75,000–$100,000+ |
All Story Legacy commissions begin with a private consultation. Quotes are bespoke and timeline-dependent.
Story Legacy commissions are accepted by application. We take a limited number of these productions per year to ensure each one receives the care it deserves.
Request a private consultation →Story Legacy is the fullest expression of what family history can be: multiple interviews, across multiple generations, produced cinematically and preserved as a complete, documented archive. Not one recording — a body of first-person testimony your descendants will draw on a century from now.
For families and institutions building a lasting record, it meets the preservation and documentation standards professionals expect, without ever losing the warmth of the people at its heart.
Explore preservation & provenance → How we preserve →A Story Legacy documentary is a significant undertaking, and we take on only a limited number each year to protect the depth and craft each family deserves. Our founding commissions receive a few things reserved for those who begin this journey with us.
To give every documentary the artistry it requires, we accept just a small number of Legacy projects annually. Founding families secure one of the first.
Before filming begins, an unhurried session with our Creative Director to shape the story you most want told — included, with our compliments.
When your documentary is complete, we’ll arrange a private screening — a first viewing your family will remember as long as the film itself.
Founding commissions are limited. Begin with a private conversation about your family’s story.
A Legacy commission doesn’t end with a film. It ends with an archive — every interview, every voice, every generation you choose to include — gathered in one private place, and opened to everyone in your family who should have it.
Parents, siblings, aunts, cousins — a Legacy archive can hold the stories of many family members, not a single subject. The whole tree, in their own voices.
Not only the finished documentary. The full interviews, the moments that didn’t make the final cut, the transcripts — all of it kept, because one day someone will want the part you didn’t think mattered.
Your family holds every original file and transcript, in their own hands. The archive is where your family gathers — but the story is yours outright, and it survives us both.
Invite your brothers and sisters. Your children. Their children, when the time comes. Each of them gets everything — the films, the voices, the transcripts — from wherever they are in the world.
A hundred years from now, someone in your family will still be able to hear this.