Our services

Every community has a story worth telling. We research, record, and preserve yours, and bring it back to the people who lived it. Choose one service or let us carry the whole project from first interview to opening night.

Partners and funders
  • The Mellon Foundation
  • Duke University
  • Pease Park Conservancy
  • Webber Family Preservation Project
  • RISE ATX

Most of our projects are funded by foundations, universities, and public preservation and arts grants. Our films have been seen on Hulu and PBS and recognized by the Emmys and Sundance.

An interviewee holding a photo of their ancestors, with the camera in view
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Oral history clips

We film elders, descendants, and community members telling their stories in their own words, then cut them into short clips people will actually watch and share.

What you get

  • Filmed interviews with professional camera, lighting, and sound
  • Short clips for your website, social media, and exhibits
  • Full-length interviews preserved for your archive
  • Transcripts and names, dates, and places logged for each interview
Good for Archives, museums, churches, anniversaries, neighborhoods whose elders hold the history, and social media
See it inRISE: video oral histories of Austin's Black freedom communities
View the RISE case study
A RISE Fest gathering
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Digital tours

We turn a historic place into a guided experience, pairing the land with the names, voices, and records of the people who lived there.

What you get

  • Research with genealogists and historians
  • A narrated video series or online virtual tour
  • Archival images and records placed where they happened
  • Versions for on-site visits, classrooms, and online
Good forParks, conservancies, cities, campuses, and historic sites
See it inLives Remembered with Pease Park Conservancy, and the Webberville virtual tour
View the Lives Remembered case study
A documentary interview set up with multiple cameras for Her Name Is Silvia
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Documentaries

We shape your history into a film, from a short piece for your website to a feature-length documentary made for festivals and broadcast.

What you get

  • Story development, research, and interviews
  • Filming, editing, color, and sound by an award-recognized team
  • Archival footage and photo licensing handled for you
  • A trailer and promo clips to share the film
Good forUniversities, foundations, families, and organizations with a story that deserves the big screen
See it inHer Name Is Silvia and CB: Power to the Player
View the Her Name Is Silvia case study
A crowd at RISE Fest
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Screenings

We organize the screening for you. You bring the story; we bring the venue, the people, and the night.

What you get

  • Venue, projection, and sound
  • Promotion and community outreach so the right people are in the room
  • Panels and Q&A with descendants, historians, and filmmakers
  • Day-of production, from check-in to final credits
Good forPremieres, anniversaries, Juneteenth and Black History Month, and fundraising events
See it inRISE Fest and the Pease Park film screening
View the RISE case study

Every project starts with research and relationships.

Before a camera turns on, we work with historians and genealogists, dig through archives, and reach out to descendants and community elders. That groundwork is included in every service.

It's why families trust us with their stories, and why the history we share is accurate.

Recording audio for the Lives Remembered tour at Pease Park
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The Heritage Package

Most partners choose the full package. One team carries your project from research to opening night, so every piece works together and nothing gets lost between vendors.

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Research

Archives, historians, and descendant outreach

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Oral histories

Filmed interviews and shareable clips

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Documentary

A film that tells the full story

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Digital tour

The history placed on the land

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Screening

A community premiere we organize for you

Built around your storyEvery package is scoped to your community, your history, and what you want people to understand.
A custom proposalAfter our first conversation, you get a detailed plan, timeline, and budget.
Grant-readyOur budgets and timelines are built to drop into foundation and public funding applications.
Start a conversation See full-package projects

Questions we hear

How much does a project cost?

Every project is scoped and budgeted individually, based on how many voices we record, how deep the research goes, and what you want to create. Most of our partners fund their projects through foundation grants, institutional budgets, and public preservation and arts funding. After our first conversation, we'll send you a detailed proposal and budget you can use in a grant application.

Can we start with just one service?

Yes. Many partners begin with oral history clips and add a documentary, tour, or screening later. Everything we record is made to be built on.

Who owns the interviews and footage?

We agree on ownership and use before we start, and we make sure every person we film gives their permission.

Our project is grant-funded. Can you work with that?

Yes. Our work on Her Name Is Silvia was funded by the Mellon Foundation, and we're used to working with grant timelines, budgets, and reporting.

Where do you work?

Everywhere. We have offices in Austin and Los Angeles and take on projects worldwide. Our work has taken us from the freedom communities of Central Texas to Duke University in North Carolina, and we bring the same care to every community we partner with.

An oral history interview for RISE

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