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Legacy Film
"Nobody ever asked me about the bus to Tijuana. I have been waiting fifty years to tell it."Grandma Rosa, 77, Los Angeles. Born near Oaxaca.
Her life, in her voice

Before the stories are gone, let her tell them.

A gentle AI calls your grandparent once a week for 15 minutes, in their own language. After 8 calls, the whole family gets an illustrated film of their life.

Baba TundeIbadan . in Yoruba
HalmeoniBusan . in Korean
Lola CoraIloilo . in Hiligaynon
Step 1 of 2 . The elder

Who are we honouring?

Grandma Rosa
Born 1948 near Oaxaca . Los Angeles since 1971
Step 2 of 2 . The family
The plan . 8 weeks

Eight calls. Fifteen minutes each.

Short calls keep it easy. Each one has a theme, plus questions the family adds.

3 of 8 calls done
44 min
    Calling Grandma RosaCall 4 of 8 . Migration . 00:00
    Family room

    Add photos and questions

    Photos become period backgrounds. Questions get woven into the next call, asked kindly and in her language.

    Photos

    Questions from the family

    Chapters so far

    In the real app this runs after call 8. Chapters with no call yet use family photos and stay short.

    In production

    Making Rosa's film

      A family film

      Rosa: From Oaxaca to Boyle Heights

      1950s CHAPTER 1 . CHILDHOOD ROSA'S OWN VOICE . 1:12
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      Family tree

      Every person, their own film

      Tap a person. Films plug into the tree, so great-grandchildren can walk back through the family in everyone's own voice.

      Ask Grandma

      Her real answers, any time

      Search every call. You only ever get her own words, with the call and minute they came from. Nothing is generated in her voice.

      Share or gift

      Send it to the family

      A Legacy FilmRosa1948 to today . Oaxaca . Tijuana . Los Angeles
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      Gift a Legacy Film

      For another family's elder. They get 8 calls, the film and the archive.

      The grand mission

      Every family's history, in the elder's own voice and language.

      When an elder dies, a library closes. Most families have no recording longer than a voicemail. Many grandparents speak a language their grandchildren never learned, so the stories die twice.

      Languages at risk, hours archived

      Example dashboard for year three. Every hour is family-owned and shared with language archives only if the family opts in.

      Zapotec4,120 h
      Mixtec3,060 h
      Yoruba9,800 h
      Hiligaynon2,410 h
      Jeju640 h
      Yr 1

      The film for one grandparent. 8 calls, one film, one archive. Spanish, Yoruba, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi and Polish first.

      Yr 2

      The family tree comes alive. Every elder in the tree gets a film. Low-resource languages added with community transcribers who are paid per hour.

      Yr 3

      A living archive of human memory. Opt-in partnerships with language archives and universities. A child in 2060 can ask a great-great-grandmother a question and hear her answer.