Family Legacy Films & Story Podcasts — Vancouver, BC
Imagine a basement office. Filing cabinets to the ceiling, a desk lamp, a man in sleeve protectors holding a fountain pen and a single index card. He looks up and says: “Storage policy. One memory per person. Which one are we keeping?”
Take the question seriously for a minute. Not a highlight reel, not a photo album. One card. Everything else about you is gone, and this is what your great-grandchildren get.
Which one?
Continue reading “If You Could Keep Only One Memory, Which One Would It Be?”
Every Thanksgiving, the same scene plays out at tables across Canada.
Someone’s grandfather starts a story about his first winter here. Someone’s mother describes the kitchen she grew up in. The younger people at the table half-listen, because they have heard it before, and because there will always be another Thanksgiving.
Until there is not.
Continue reading “The Best Interview of the Year Happens at the Thanksgiving Table”People often ask what we actually say when the camera turns on. The truth is, there’s no magic script — every person’s story is different. But over many interviews, a handful of questions have proven to open almost anyone up. Try them at your next family dinner. You may be surprised what comes out.
Continue reading “5 Questions That Unlock Anyone’s Life Story”I had done plenty of interviews before — families, couples, grandparents sharing a lifetime of memories. But sitting down with someone whose whole life had been spent chasing horizons was different. I walked in with a page of questions and a quiet worry that I might not do the story justice.
Here is what that first adventure interview taught me.
Continue reading “What I Learned Filming My First Adventure Interview”Some of the most remarkable lives belong to people who would never think to call themselves remarkable. The neighbour who once crossed an ocean in a small boat. The grandmother who rebuilt a life from nothing after the war. The quiet uncle who spent three decades photographing birds in places most of us will never see. Ask them about it and they will shrug: “Oh, it wasn’t anything special.”
But it was. It always is.
Continue reading “The Adventurers Among Us: Why Ordinary People Have Extraordinary Stories”
Some of the most remarkable lives belong to people who’d never think to call themselves remarkable — the friend who sailed somewhere impossible, the grandparent who rebuilt a life from nothing, the neighbour whose quiet adventures would stop you in your tracks.
Continue reading “Everyone has a story worth telling”
A few months ago, we launched a pilot project with the District of West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre — offering Life Chronicles sessions at a reduced community-centre rate to help members capture and preserve their personal stories on film.
We’re thrilled to share that the pilot was a success. The response from the community was wonderful, and the stories that came out of those sessions reminded us exactly why this work matters.
Continue reading “🎉 It’s Official: Life Chronicles Sessions Are Now Permanent at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre”“I wanted to do this because in my middle age, I wished I’d asked my grandparents — even my mother and father — about things I wanted to know, and didn’t. So I thought if I did this, at least my grandchildren and great-grandchildren — who I don’t have any of yet — will get an inkling of what it was like.”
— D.H., West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, March 2026
At The Life Chronicles, we spend a lot of time helping people tell their stories. We set up cameras, ask gentle questions, and watch something remarkable happen: people start talking in a way they haven’t talked in years. About what they actually believe. About what shaped them. About what they’re afraid of, and what they hope for.
Again and again, after a session, we hear the same thing from families: “We didn’t know that about him.” Or, more quietly: “She never told me that.”
It made us wonder. What if the conversation didn’t have to wait for a camera?
Continue reading “Introducing Tête-à-Tête: A New Way to Have the Conversations That Matter”
This Mother’s Day, give her something she’ll never forget — her own story, in her own words, on film.
Flowers fade. Chocolates disappear. But your mom’s voice telling the story of how she met your dad, or the night you were born, or the lesson her own mother taught her? That lasts forever.
At The Life Chronicles, we sit down with your mom (or grandmother, or the mother figure who shaped your life) and film her story. A professional interview with gentle, guided questions. Her laughter. Her tears. Her wisdom. Edited into a cinematic film your entire family will treasure for generations.
Continue reading “This Mother’s Day, Give Her the Gift of Her Own Story — 15% Off All Family Packages”