What we make

Three steps. Each one earns the next.

No free spec work, and no six-figure decision made on a promise.

01

Legacy Discovery

Two to three weeks

Before quoting a production we need to see what actually exists. Most organizations have more than they think, in worse condition than they hope.

  • An assessment of your archive — photographs, packaging, ledgers, plans, whatever is in the boxes
  • Two or three recorded interviews with whoever holds the most of your history
  • A written story treatment, corrected against what we find
  • A finished 30-second proof clip built from your own material

If you stop here, you keep the treatment, the interviews and the clip. There is no obligation to continue, and the fee is credited in full if you do.

02

Chapter One

Six to eight weeks

A single film on the founding. The right choice when the milestone is further out, when the budget needs to be proven before it is expanded, or when one story is simply the story.

  • One film, six to eight reconstructed scenes
  • Three short cutdowns for social and email
  • The archive material we digitized in order to make it, cataloged and returned
03

The Legacy Film

Four to six months

The full anniversary program. Most clients think they are buying one film. They are buying a year of material and a permanent archive.

Built backwards from your milestone date. Research is the part that cannot be rushed without the quality showing, so the schedule starts earlier than people expect.

Inside the Legacy Film

One production. Eight deliverables.

Most of these are cut from work already done for the hero film, which is why the package costs a fraction of commissioning them separately.

Hero film

Premiere-grade, for the anniversary event, the annual meeting, the lobby and the website.

Twelve short cutdowns

Sixty to ninety seconds each — a full year of social content, already made.

Lobby & retail loop

Silent, continuous, for reception, visitor centers and retail activations.

Recruiting cut

Two minutes for hiring and onboarding — why this place is worth joining.

Donor or foundation cut

Built for capital campaigns, scholarship programs and board presentations.

Cataloged digital archive

Photographs, documents and artifacts scanned, described and indexed. Yours permanently.

Full-length interviews

Preserved and transcribed, beyond whatever the film uses. This cannot be created later.

Premiere support

Screening master, program notes, press stills, and a short making-of.

Beyond the package

Add-ons.

Who this is for

Four kinds of client.

Companies with a milestone coming

Fifty years or more, with an anniversary inside the next three years and a founding nobody photographed.

Family businesses

Where someone senior cares about the founder, and the generation that remembers him is getting older.

Schools, hospitals and foundations

Running capital campaigns, where the film moves donors and the return is measurable.

Estates, trusts and families

Commissioning a legacy privately, for the people it belongs to rather than for an audience.

What you own

The work is yours when it is done.

Start here

Start with Discovery.

Three weeks, a story treatment, and a finished clip built from your own material — before anyone commits to a production.