Pricing

One payment for the whole film

Paid once, and set by the length of your book. It covers the screenplay, the starting looks and voices, every part’s cast, every part and the finished film. Every word of your book is kept. Uploading is free, and there is no subscription.

Everything included

Your film

from $799

For a film of about 90 minutes, up to $4,499 for a book of 110,000 words. A screenplay you bring is laid out exactly as written, never reworded, and priced by its running time.

Start with my book Bring my screenplay

What every size includes

  • The screenplay, written from your whole book in your own words. Your narration is your sentences, word for word, and your quoted dialogue is used exactly. You read it, ask for changes and approve it.
  • The starting looks and voices, made automatically once you approve the screenplay: every recurring person, place and object drawn once, and a distinct voice for each character. Up to 40 redraws of the starting looks are included.
  • Each part’s cast: everyone in the part at their age in it, dressed for it, with their voices and the places. Anything unchanged is marked “Same as Part 2”. Change any drawing in plain words, pick another voice or record your own voice for one role, then approve.
  • Every part of the film, made one at a time: the cast, then the build (usually about an hour), then your edit and approval, which unlocks the next part.
  • The part editor, so you can change pictures, spoken lines and music in any part. Allowances are included in the price: one remake of each part with your notes, new pictures up to about six per minute of film made so far, and up to 40 redraws of the starting looks. Moving, copying, cropping and re-recording lines are not limited.
  • The whole film, joined from your approved parts with title cards, to download as an HD (1080p) MP4 and share.
  • Closing credits of your own: your photos shown one at a time in a scrapbook, each in a look you choose (a Polaroid, an old-time print, a 1980s print and more) with a caption in your film’s lettering, cards of thanks, and a song of up to three minutes sung to your own words, then a fade to black.
  • Release formats: we suggest how to release it for its length, as one film, a two-part film, a limited series or web-series episodes, and make the files you choose with their own title cards. You can also make a shorter theatrical cut by choosing scenes to leave out yourself. See a finished web series made with MemoirMovies.
Sizes

Priced by the length of your book

Every word of your book is kept, so the film runs as long as the book needs. You see your book’s size and price as soon as you upload it, before you pay anything.

Your bookYour film runsPrice
up to 12,000 words,
or a screenplay edited to about 90 minutes
about 90 minutes$799
up to 20,000 words about 2½ hours$1,149
up to 30,000 words about 3¾ hours$1,499
up to 40,000 words about 5 hours$1,899
up to 50,000 words about 6¼ hours$2,249
up to 60,000 words about 7½ hours$2,649
up to 70,000 words about 8½ hours$2,999
up to 80,000 words about 10 hours$3,399
up to 90,000 words about 11 hours$3,749
up to 100,000 words about 12¼ hours$4,149
up to 110,000 words about 13½ hours$4,499
over 110,000 words—Write to us

A screenplay you bring is priced by its running time on screen, which we work out when you upload it. Both styles cost the same. Books start at 1,500 words.

How paying works

Upload first, pay once, approve as you go

1

Upload, free

Upload your book or screenplay. Nothing is charged to upload.

2

Pay once to start

One payment, at the price for your book’s size, starts your film. It is charged only when you start.

3

Approve each part

The film is made one part at a time. You watch a part and approve it before the next is made. You can stop after any part and keep everything made so far.

Two styles, same price

Choose Light-hearted or Serious

You pick the style when you start, and you can change it until the cast drawing begins. Both styles cost the same.

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.

Good to know

  • The film is made with AI and directed by you, and you approve each step.
  • A part usually takes about an hour to build.
  • A photo helps guide a likeness, but a cartoon will not be an exact match.
  • Refunds are covered by our terms.

What you can upload

  • A book in Word, PDF, EPUB or plain text, from 1,500 to 110,000 words. For a longer book, write to us for a quote.
  • A screenplay in Final Draft, Fountain, PDF, Word or text, of any length up to about 13½ hours on screen.