Investment Updates
Leave A Legacy To Future Generations-On Video
Published Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at: 7:00 AM EDT
Iris Wagner is not a therapist, though she asks lots of questions, and the parents, grandparents, and children she works with almost always gain insight about themselves and each other. And while she helps families plan and ensure their legacies, she’s not a financial advisor. Wagner’s job—or, she’ll assure you, her passion—is making films about her peoples’ lives to preserve forever the stories that made them who they are.
Wagner’s company, Memoirs Productions (www.memoirs.ca), based in Montreal, produces personal and corporate video biographies. Some are lavish, 90-minute videos, entailing months of research and filmed by a large crew on multiple locations over several days—at a cost that begins in the six figures and may go, well, much higher. One client thought it might be nice to have Barbara Walters interview family members, and Wagner said, sure, we can probably get her—“she’s retired now, and she must have a day rate.”
But other Memoirs Productions videos, which can be commissioned for $10,000 or so, are less involved, though no less meaningful to the families for whom they’re produced. These are what have become known as ethical wills—“a record for posterity,” Wagner says. The subjects of these films talk about their lives, their mentors, the lessons they’ve learned, their hopes for the future. “It says, ‘This is me,’” says Wagner.
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