Share life’s stories

Let’s produce a short set of videos about your life. We organize your stories and do the legwork to make sure everything looks and sounds great. No matter your language, location, or background, Quilt can help tell your story.

Quilt makes a great gift! It's an easy way to preserve and share stories that you want to last a lifetime and beyond.

We can help tell your story privately and in any language, no matter where you live.

  • About you
  • Gather pictures, videos, emails, stories; whatever you included in your webpage.
  • Production magic
  • We schedule, record, and edit your story. It'll be ready in no time.
  • To keep and share
  • Your story is hosted on a shareable, but private, website.

You'll end up with a great digital memento. One that can be saved and shared for generations.

Longer term web storage and easy video sharing is also available.

Our network of journalists and oral historians have worked with some of the best storytellers in the business.


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FAQ

  • Yes. You'll have an opportunity to review a transcript and edit out sections you don't want recorded.

  • After talking to customers, and testing different available memory products in the market, we found that nothing can really match the emotional impact of a video story where the storyteller is accompanied by an experienced interviewer. Plus, it's much easier to watch and share! If you feel strongly about not including video in your story we're also happy to provide an audio-first service at a reduced price.

  • Of course! It's your story and we'll do anything we can to make sure you're happy with it.

  • Yes! We're like to support storytellers working across community boundaries and this is a great opportunity to do so. We have been successful in sourcing excellent storytelling facilitators in dozens of languages.

  • Quilt gives families an easy way for families to record your life story and share it in long-lasting web-page format

  • We handle all the back end of scheduling, recording, editing, transcribing, and most important, sourcing the right interviewer for your story.

  • Yes. We won't share your recordings with anyone without your consent. All our interviewers sign confidentiality agreements. We also do our best to minimize the number of people needed to post-process your story. Any content you create available to download or delete so you can always take your interview videos and store them elsewhere.

  • Quilt is available across all platforms! Our video chats start from a link in an email or Whatsapp and the video pops right up no additional installs.

  • Yes, if you are interested in submitting additional content to be included with your Archive video we can forward it to the editor along with the recordings for processing.

  • Yes. You'll also have the option to choose to exlcude content based on a transcript of the recordings after each session.

  • Partial refunds are available after you've completed the first recording session. We'll refund your purchase minus $150 and a 3% credit card transaction fee to cover the cost of our storytelling partner and of returning your money. Completed interview projects cannot be refunded.

  • About a month and a half. Depending on interviewee availability interviews can usually be completed within a month. Edits take a week from interview completion.

  • We've been successful at finding storytellers to match all sorts of stories.

  • Yes. You'll be able to upload additional videos to your project after completion within certain bandwidth limitations.