How Does It Work?
Each Remarkable Lives video is crafted by skilled television producer-directors and editors, from professionally-filmed personal interviews.
Our trained television presenters will guide you or your family member through a detailed recording of the story of their lives: their memories of childhood, their careers, their relationships, their whole life to date.
Meet the Team
Film Director
Robert Strange
Television Director, Robert has created documentary films for all major UK broadcasters, and for many of the best-known USA television networks. He has worked alongside, and interviewed, Hollywood stars, such as Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine, as well as UK television stalwarts like Joan Collins, Melvin Bragg, and Graham Norton.
Executive Producer
Pamela Strange
With an overview of your family’s film production, from early research through to interview and delivery, Pamela shapes and controls the content, the music and the timing of your personal film production. An organisational expert, with a lifelong quality-control career in major UK health provision Pamela ensures your “Remarkable Lives experience will be both creative, and enjoyable.
Director/Cameraman
David Strange
As an expert in live television studio production, David works with Britain’s top news-gathering networks, as well as international channels, such as the Al Jazeera network. His television skills have taken him on locations across the world, from Qatar in the Middle East through to working for the Discovery Channels in the wilds of northern Alaska.
Comments from Participants
“The film director made it so easy for me to talk… and the camera crew were easy to get along with; they made it all a truly enjoyable experience.”
Elaine (50)
“I got to see some of the places that Nanny lived and worked, and that old film of her life in the 1960s bought everything to life.”
Rebecca (23)
Yet this is more than merely a record of their lives. Each film also gives younger members of the family a fascinating glimpse into times past. A window into the history of bygone places, and bygone eras, through which their family have lived.