A real photograph, gently brought to life.
Animated legacy films for families of faith
Your life and faith, in your own words, as a film your grandchildren will watch and a book they will keep. You just talk.
Let them see it, hear it, and hold it.
In her own words
Graciela Marques-Hahn
author of 21 Envelopes, a true story
Four a year, by invitation
Your whole life as one fully animated film, about 60 minutes, drawn in your likeness, every scene made from your own words. It begins with your finished memoir and ends with a family premiere. I make four a year, by invitation.
Three ways to begin
I’ve already written it
The Heirloom Film, from journals or a book →It’s a gift
The Legacy Gift card →Every path leads to one unhurried conversation.
What you get
The prayers you prayed and what came of them, the things you learned the hard way, and the years behind the ones your family already knows.
You talk. I listen carefully. Your name is on the cover, and I am the one who asked the questions.
The ground gets walked twice
Why this exists
Every family has an instrument for passing down assets. Faith already passes down — at the table, in habit, by example. But the story of it has no instrument.
There is no form for it
Who this is for
It might be a family, a church, a business, or a marriage that went through a bad decade. Whoever held it together has been thanked many times, and the family still does not know how they did it.
And if you’re their son or daughter, there’s a way for you to give this too.
The people it was all held together for
Zoom, or in person
The First Chapter Challenge is on Zoom, wherever you are. A book can be too — or I come to you. Three days, four of the eight conversations recorded where you actually live, and the things you have kept opened on the table between us.
Somebody wanders in and corrects a date from the next room. Those are the passages families quote afterwards.
Everyone who came
The holidays · 2026
Six places · order by November 24
Your blessing over each person you love, written and printed, then made into a short film with your family photographs brought to life. Premiered by December 22, or on a date your family chooses after Christmas.
Until December 23
For sons and daughters: a card that reserves a place. The full amount counts toward any film or memoir.
Printable · instant download
Sixteen fold-over place cards for each holiday, in two designs: a name and a verse on one side, a question on the other.
$2.99 each set
Get Thanksgiving cards Or Christmas cards → Get Christmas cards Instant download after checkout
Thanksgiving Table Questions · name side and question side
Christmas Table Questions · name side and question side
The Deep Roots, Wide Branches journals make a quiet stocking gift. See the journals.
For sons and daughters
Your mother or father tells the story. You keep the book. Your children get the film.
The storyteller always owns the finished work. When a son or daughter pays, you receive your own printed copies and a copy of the film files.
Brothers and sisters often give this together. Each of you can give a card, and every card counts toward the same film or memoir.
The full amount counts toward any film or memoir, and it is refundable within 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation.
Almost certainly not, and it is the thing families worry about most. She needs to hold a conversation for ninety minutes, which she does every week without thinking about it. Nothing to install, nothing to type, no deadline. If a video call goes wrong we use the telephone and I take notes.
And if you would rather she did not have to manage any of it, I will come to her.
Then the gift waits. I never write anyone’s story without them wanting to tell it, and the Legacy Gift card is refundable within 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation.
The journals
Large-print guided journals for writing down the life God has given you, one season at a time.
Companion to the First Chapter Challenge
Five days to remember His faithfulness and bless the people you love.
$7.99Free with the Challenge
The set of four
Roots, Seasons, Faithfulness and Blessing.
$34.99or $9.99 for each volume
Coming to Amazon in November. The First Chapter comes with the Challenge. Completed journals can become an Heirloom Film.
Rather talk than write? I’ll listen and write it for you.
Book a story conversation
Fifteen unhurried minutes. Tell me whose story it is and what it means to your family, and we’ll discern together whether this is the right season and the right fit.
The work
Every film is made from words: a blessing, a memoir, or pages you’ve already written.
The promise underneath all of it
Modern tools can write something that sounds like a memoir in an afternoon. It will be fluent, and it will contain things that never happened. That is worse than useless to a family — it is a forgery of the one thing they needed to be true.
So every factual claim in your book is traced back to the moment you said it. The craft goes into rhythm, imagery and shape. It never goes into inventing a detail because it would read well.
You choose how much craft you want, in writing, before I start.
| Level | What it means |
|---|---|
| As spoken | Your words, cleaned. Grammar and order only |
| Rendered | Shaped into scenes. Detail heightened, never invented |
| Literary | Full craft — imagery, rhythm, structure. Still no added facts |
The Visit
Three days, or five if the story began abroad. This is how in-person work happens. Travel is billed at cost, with an estimate you approve in advance.
We talk twice, morning and afternoon, with a long break between. Nothing is rushed and we stop when you are tired, finished or not.
Two more conversations, and then we walk — the church, the house you built, the street you grew up on. All of it recorded and photographed.
The things you have kept, opened on the table and talked through properly, then photographed at the resolution the printed book needs. A family session if anyone is in town.
Going back to where the story started. The village, the mission station, the port you left from, the church that sent you.
Sometimes that means taking you. More often it means going without you, because the journey is more than you want to take on now — and coming home with the photographs, the footage, and the names of the people who still remember your family.
That is a thing almost nobody can buy at any price.
The four films
Fifteen minutes on the telephone settles it faster than a table can.
Questions people ask
No. Not one word, at any stage. You talk, I write, and you tell me what is right and what is not. People who would never sit down at a keyboard talk beautifully for ninety minutes.
I use AI tools to transcribe our conversations and draft passages from your own words. Then I rewrite every sentence, check every fact against the recording, and add the craft. Nothing is added that you didn’t say. Your agreement describes this in writing.
Yes, that’s the Heirloom Film. You confirm the book is yours to adapt.
Yes. Each film is made so an 8-year-old can follow it and a teenager respects it. Hard seasons are told honestly and gently.
Almost certainly not. Read the full answer for sons and daughters.
My work is made for families of faith; answered prayer, Scripture and blessing are at its center. The method works on any life, and the faith layer can be set aside if you’d rather.
The storyteller does, completely, on final payment — the manuscript, the cover, the files, everything. Your name is on it and mine is not. I will not mention that I wrote it if you would rather I did not.
When a son or daughter pays, they receive their own printed copies and a copy of the film files.
A fair question and nobody likes asking it. Your agreement names someone in your family who can act for you, and it says that if I cannot finish for any reason you are refunded everything except the deposit and handed the full transcript, so another writer could pick it up. You own every recording and every draft as we go.
No. One price, one book and film, yours outright. The only monthly option is for authors who choose ongoing help after a book launch, and that is always optional.
Why this exists
This page is the argument, written out properly, for anyone who wants to know what I actually believe I am doing.
A family preparing to pass things down has an entire profession waiting for them. There is a will for the property. A trust for the accounts. A lawyer who does nothing else, a form for every asset, and a filing cabinet where it all ends up.
Now name the instrument for passing down what you believed. For why you kept believing it in the year it was expensive. For the thing you decided at two in the morning that nobody has ever heard about.
There is not one. No form, no appointment, no profession. The most valuable thing in the house is the only thing with no paperwork, and it transfers by accident or it does not transfer at all.
Almost every family means to. Almost none of them get to it.
Isaiah 58
“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations;
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”
Isaiah 58:12 · AMP
The breach is not a rift in a family. It is the break in transmission — the place where the telling stopped and the knowing went with it. And what gets restored is not a monument. It is a street with houses on it. Somewhere people can live.
It is a real office. The King’s Remembrancer in England is the oldest judicial position still in existence, and the word means exactly what it sounds like: one who keeps the record, so that it is not forgotten.
I chose it over ghostwriter, biographer and personal historian for a simple reason. Ghostwriter quietly implies the client did not write their own life. Mine did. Every one of them.
“…and a book of remembrance was written before Him.”Malachi 3:16 · AMP
The closing section of every book
Every book I write ends the same way, and it is the part families read first.
What was already there when you arrived — and who put it there.
The people, the places and the decisions that made you the person your family knows.
The practices, the routines and the disciplines. The unglamorous part nobody sees.
The work, the family, the church, the thing that is still standing.
The sacrifices, plainly stated. Not a complaint — an account.
The struggles you did not share, so your children would not have to carry them. This is the movement that changes families, and it can be sealed until a date you choose.
Telling the next generation what the floor they stand on is made of.
A person in their sixties, seventies or eighties who held something together — a family, a church, a business, a marriage that went through a bad decade — and who has never been asked how.
You tell it in your own words, and it becomes a film your grandchildren will watch and a book they will keep.
And if you’re their son or daughter, there’s a way for you to give this too.
Anyone who wants a book that settles a score. I will not write one. Anyone who wants the story improved — a detail added because it would read better. And anyone who wants to commission their parent’s memoir without their parent wanting it, because the book only works if the person telling it wants to talk.
Films and memoirs
I take on a small number of families each season, so that every story is honored properly.
Two a month · six for Christmas
Your blessing over each person you love is written first and printed. Then it becomes a film: your family photographs brought to life, the blessings in words on screen, with music.
You’ve already written it
You’ve already written it. Let them see it. Your completed journals, a book you wrote yourself, one made with Storyworth or Remento, or one another writer helped you finish, made into a film your grandchildren will watch.
You confirm the book is yours to adapt.
Most families begin here
Your memoir is written from eight conversations and printed as a book, closing with What the Floor Is Made Of. Then a trailer of two minutes or less, a first glimpse of the Life Feature it could become.
Four a year, by invitation
About 60 minutes, fully animated from your finished memoir: your whole life drawn in your likeness, every scene made from your own words, and a family premiere.
For sons and daughters
For sons and daughters who want to give this before their parent has said yes. A card in two amounts that reserves a place; the full amount counts toward any film or memoir.
Brothers and sisters often give this together. Each can give a card, and every card counts toward the same film or memoir.
Refundable within 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation.
How your film arrives
Every film arrives in a keepsake box: an engraved USB drive and a printed card, with a private link for streaming and backup. Films are made for all ages, so an 8-year-old can follow along and a teenager respects it. Watch it together at the premiere, then again on your own.
Something else in mind?
Holding recordings, or remembering someone? Ask about a custom film.
Extra hardcover copies are $45 each. Travel for in-person visits is billed at cost, with an estimate you approve in advance.
Your book is finished
For authors who want their finished book on Amazon and on their own website, with someone to set it up properly and keep it running.
Free
Fifteen unhurried minutes to hear whose story it is and what it means to the family, and to discern together whether this is the right season and the right fit.
Large-print guided journals for writing down the life God has given you, one season at a time. Completed journals can become an Heirloom Film.
The First Chapter $7.99 · each volume $9.99 · Volumes 1 to 4 as a set $34.99 · on Amazon from November
How payment works
You never pay for something you have not seen. And because each project holds a place in a small calendar, every one begins with a payment that secures that place.
| What you are buying | To begin | Then | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blessing Film & Letter | $1,950, in full | — | Card |
| The Legacy Gift card | $500 or $1,000, in full | — | Card |
| The Heirloom Film | 50% | 50% after your private preview | Bank-transfer invoice |
| The Legacy Memoir with Trailer | 50% | 25% at manuscript approval, 25% before printing | Bank-transfer invoice |
| The Life Feature | 50% to begin, reserving your quarter | 25% at storyboard approval, 25% before the premiere | Bank-transfer invoice |
| Monthly option The Life Feature |
30% | The rest in equal monthly payments, finished before the premiere | Bank-transfer invoice |
| Journals | On Amazon | — | Card, through Amazon |
Payments of $3,000 or more are made by bank-transfer invoice, which keeps card fees out of your price; the gift cards, the $1,950 offers and the journals by card. Finished files and printed copies are released once the final payment is made. If our first conversation shows a book or film is not right for you, your deposit comes back in full; after that, what you have paid covers the work already done.
Five evenings on Zoom · free
In five evenings, you’ll have the first pages of your own book and a 30-second film to show your family.
Only three people per round, and each meets with me one on one, Sunday to Thursday evenings.
Next rounds: October 25–29 · November 8–12 · November 15–19 · December 6–10
What you’ll walk away with
The pages that come before chapter one of your own memoir: a short dedication blessing for the people you love, as simple or as personal as you like, and a one-page prologue of an answered prayer. Typeset to match your journal, one copy to print and one to send.
Your answered prayer in your own voice, with your photograph gently brought to life, premiered for your family on night five.
Arrives as a PDF before night one; your printed copy follows by post. By night five every page holds your answers.
Thirty minutes a night on Zoom, one on one, Sunday to Thursday; night five runs an hour. You answer out loud; I render your words overnight. Valued at $250, and free.
The five nights
| Night | The question | What it becomes |
|---|---|---|
| One | The Answer | Your prologue |
| Two | The Wells | Who formed you |
| Three | What Held | The season that tested you |
| Four | The Blessing | A simple blessing for the people you love |
| Five | The Reading | Your film premiered with family |
Your family is welcome at the reading on night five. That evening I also show you what the rest of the book and its film would be, and what they cost. If you commission any film that week, the full $250 value of the Challenge comes off its price.
Why this exists
“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations; You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”
Isaiah 58:12, AMP
The breach is not a family rift. It is a gap in a wall — the break between generations where the telling stopped and the knowing went with it. Your Opening Pages repair that stretch of wall. And the last line is the point: not a monument, but somewhere the family lives.
Only three people per round, each meeting with me one on one, so every family is given real attention. It is free. Choose your round below; dates for later rounds go to this list first.
If you miss a night, we begin the next one with your question, so nothing is lost.
Fifteen unhurried minutes. Tell me whose story it is and what it means to your family, and we’ll discern together whether this is the right season and the right fit.
Or leave your details and I’ll write to you:
If I am not right for it, I will say so on the call rather than in an email a week later.
Some things are easier said in a paragraph than a form.
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