See your story on screen

See your memoir take shape as a film, one step at a time

Upload your memoir, which is free. When you start the film, you read and approve the screenplay. The starting looks and voices are then made automatically. After that, each part has its own cast for you to check, is built, and is approved by you before the next part begins.

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Best fit
  • Authors who want to see how their book adapts, step by step
  • Families deciding between a light-hearted and a serious telling
  • Memoir coaches who want to understand what their client's book could become
The MemoirMovies way

Screenplay. Each part’s cast. Each part made. Film.

ScreenplayWritten from your whole book in your own words, or bring your own. Upload is free, and you pay once to start, at the price for your book’s length.
Each part’s castStarting looks and voices are made automatically. Before each part, you see its cast and voices, change what you like, and approve.
Each part madeThe part is built in about an hour. You edit it in the part editor and approve it, which unlocks the next part.
The whole filmApproved parts join into one film with title cards, to download as an HD (1080p) MP4 and share.
Two styles

Light-hearted or Serious

You choose when you start, and you can change it until the cast drawing begins.

A frame in the Light-hearted style: a smiling cartoon boy in a striped shirt holds up a giant lima bean in a grey pencil garden

Light-hearted

A crude, hand-drawn 1990s adult-cartoon look with wobbling marker lines and grey pencil backgrounds. It suits funny and warm memoirs.

Start a light-hearted film
A frame in the Serious style: a woman comforts a sad boy in a grey vet waiting room, with only the people in colour

Serious

A simplified graphic-memoir look in black ink and grey, with slow push-ins and quieter music. It suits grief, illness, hardship and other serious stories.

Start a Serious film

Watch both in motion on the home page. The demos come from the founder’s own memoir, “A Mostly Magnificent Memoir” by Bo Bennett.

Read it first

The screenplay comes first. You read it on the site, ask for changes, and approve it before anything is drawn.

Meet your cast

After you approve the screenplay, starting looks and voices are made automatically. Before each part is made, you see its cast, change any drawing or voice, and approve it.

Choose a style

Light-hearted suits funny and warm memoirs. Serious suits grief, illness and hardship. You can change the style until the cast drawing begins.

Made with AI, directed by you. The drawings, voices and music are made with AI. You approve the screenplay, each part’s cast and every part.

Related paths

More about MemoirMovies

Autobiography to film A complete memoir or life story, written as a screenplay in your own words and made into a film one part at a time.
A short memoir or family story A written story of 1,500 words or more becomes a shorter film, made the same way.
How it works The steps in detail, from upload to the finished film.
Who uses this

Authors, families, and the people helping them

Memoir authors Upload your book and get a screenplay written from the whole thing, in your own words.
Families and heirs Turn a parent's or grandparent's written story into something everyone can watch.
Screenwriters Bring a finished screenplay. It is laid out and never reworded, at the same price.
Questions

Before you begin

Can I upload before I pay?

Yes. Uploading is free, and you see your film’s length and price straight away. You pay once, only when you start the film.

Can I stop partway through?

Yes. The film is made one part at a time, and you approve each part before the next is made. If you stop, you keep everything made so far.

Can I change a part after it is made?

Yes. The part editor lets you move pictures, ask for changes in plain words, change the words of any spoken line and re-record it, and move the music. Edits are included, within set allowances: one remake of each part, and new pictures up to about six per minute of film made so far.

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