Two filmmakers. One mission.

Together we bring decades of experience in documentary filmmaking, storytelling education, and community memory preservation. We built Preserving Our Stories because we kept meeting people who had extraordinary family histories — and no idea how to capture them before it was too late.

Between us we have worked with broadcasters across Canada and Europe, screened films at festivals on three continents, and taught hundreds of students how to find, film, and finish their own documentary stories.

"The most urgent films aren't being made in Hollywood. They're sitting in living rooms, waiting for someone to press record."

This course is the result of everything we've learned — distilled into a practical, warm, step-by-step journey that any person with a smartphone and a story can complete. No film school required. No expensive equipment. Just your story, and the tools to tell it.

We are based in Penticton, British Columbia, and we believe that preserving the stories of ordinary people is one of the most important things anyone can do.

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