SOLACE STORIES
It’s Not Too Late to Preserve Your Loved One’s Life Story
By interviewing family and friends, we create a documentary that preserves their story on film so kids and grandkids can watch and know who they were.
A LIFE ISN'T REMEMBERED ALONE
We create family documentaries when a loved one can no longer tell their story.
IN THEIR WORDS
"My kids could watch this when they are teenagers and they can know who their grandma is."
Just to realize how much of an impact my mom made on all these different people and how much they grieved when she passed away just like I grieved.
My mom made a big impact on a lot people that I didn't realize.
Marie Wilson
"We are approaching the anniversary of her death and I think this was just so therapeutic for everyone"
It gives us a time to really celebrate her and create this type of space that the grandkids and the great grandkids will be able to really look at this and see the meaning that it had.
And really to see everybody’s narrative, because during death you’re just crying.
Dr. Travis Andrews
"My mother is starting to have some memory issues."
So this was a great time, really to start, recording the stories that she remembers and can share.
I was definitely thinking about just taping my mom and dad talking. I had not really thought about all the different points of views and how that makes it a richer story.
Lekita Hargrave
"I feel like it really exceeded all of my expectations"
"There were times that I was laughing and times where I was crying."
"It was amazing, really well done."
The Covingtons
"This video is more than I ever could have hoped for!"
My family is responding with rave reviews and deep appreciation.
It's the medium of their generation and it will be a jewel to have for many years to come.
Mary Moorehead
"All of my family was there"
I couldn't even imagine how they would put something like this together.
I was very pleased with how it turned out and how everyone was included.
Elizabeth Belnap
"I felt like the the way that you laid it out in advance of how you directed things made a big difference."
This is really good to be able to take all of the family stories and the recollections and solidify them without going to a lot of effort to try to write it down.
You lose all the emotion when you write it down.
So it makes it nice, and to have everybody commenting on the same subjects.. where you can jump from one sibling to another to finish off the story.
And yeah, made it a lot of fun.
Cary Covington
"It was an excellent way of putting all the high points of a person's life together, without having to write a whole bunch."
One of the, transformational thoughts is we've kind of thought we would kind of do a definitive writing of our parents...
And honestly, I think we're going to go to a lot of effort to do that.
But I have a feeling that this documentary shown as a reminder to George and Ida's posterity in ways that will be used, a whole bunch more than all this writing that we are going to put together.
Stan Wilson
"It was new and creative idea. It was something different."
My son Evan has really confirmed this to my husband. He's like, that is so awesome.
He's like, now you and dad need to make one.
And when you realize how much less time it takes where you can encapsulate these memories, it's incredible.
And being able to show something to their kids on the screen, it's going to make a bigger impact.
Pam Carlile
"I would definitely recommned Solace Stories"
They made a beautiful documentary about Grandma.
It was wonderful to learn more about her, and to hear stories from a variety of people.
Emma Yeager
"This is something our family will cherish forever."
I'm so grateful my kids get to see and hear stories of their Papa from different points of view.
I can't say enough positive things about the video and will watch it countless times!
Tumua Te'o
"This is something that will be important to all of my grandchildren at some point in their lives."
This experience was fantastic.
We loved that Joe worked with us to make little tweaks to improve the final product.
Ronald Davidson
