About
It started with a boy’s love for his grandma, and a school project
In 2007, Jesse was given a school project: interview your loved ones, starting with the oldest. With Dad’s help, he called his grandma and recorded her voice. Grandma told him the stories of her life and the advice she wanted her children and grandchildren to carry. Jesse listened, and asked, and kept asking.
Those recordings became something no one expected. Set to photographs, they let his grandparents speak, in their own voices, at their own celebrations of life. And in those rooms, through tears, people kept asking the same question: how can we do this for someone we love?
Dad’s promise to Jesse
Jesse wanted the answer to be easy. Back then, it was anything but easy — every hour of conversation took many more hours of cutting and editing by hand. So his dad made him a promise:
“Someday, I’ll create an app that makes it easy and affordable for everyone to capture their loved ones’ stories and automagically create presentations for special life events.”
Do The Interviewis that promise, fulfilled.
All it takes is a phone call
The part that matters hasn’t changed: a real conversation with someone you love. We made everything else easy. No equipment to buy, no software to learn, nothing to edit.
- We help you choose good, thoughtful questions.
- We place the phone call that brings you together.
- We guide you through the asking, one question at a time.
- We turn it into a keepsake movie, in their own voice.
If you can make a phone call, you can do this.
For every season of life
What began as a way to capture an aging parent, or a loved one facing illness, turned out to fit so much more — a graduation, a wedding, a new baby on the way, the friends gathered to honor someone.
What we believe
- A voice carries what a photograph can’t.
- It should be easy so you actually do it.
- It’s almost never too late — even after someone is gone, the people who loved them can still tell their story.