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On any given day of the week, filmmaker Kate Carter, 64, turns her digital camera on a dying stranger, making beautiful documentary-style videos of people whose lives are fading… Read the whole article, from January 2017, on the Good Housekeeping website.
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Leigh Wengler was just 43 years old when she died of cancer in July 2007. She left behind a husband Joe and two children Lucas and Ellie. But Leigh also left an hour-long DVD of her reflections on her life. It was filmed just a week before she died. The film was shot by a US based non-profit organisation Life Chronicles, which has made over 600 such recordings. Read the whole interview and see video clips, on the BBC website.
Read MoreJackson, Mississippi TV Spot
WLBT news in Jackson Mississippi featured LifeChronicles on a recent segment. Click to be taken to their website, featuring an article and accompanying video.
Read MoreSanta Barbara News Press
“LifeChronicles” Chronicles Life by Frank Talk, column for March 27, 2007 Years ago I made a tape recording of my mother, and it’s proven to be one of the wisest things I’ve done. It’s kept Mom’s memory vivid for me and also helped make Mom “more real” for my daughter who never met her. But sometimes I wonder If Mom might be more clearly remembered if I’d made a video rather than a sound recording. So I was captivated when I learned about LifeChronicles, because it’s an organization that videotapes interviews with seniors to ensure their remembrance by loved ones. “Our videos try to capture...
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Page 10 of November 2002 Rosie Magazine: LIFECHRONICLES In 1998, Kate Carter of Santa Barbara, California, started an organization, LifeChronicles, to help birth mothers giving their babies up for adoption, as well as people with degenerative or terminal illnesses, communicate lifelong memories through videotape. For the family members, the tapes capture and preserve certain things that tend to slip away over time–the way a dad tells a story, the way a daughter dances and laughs or, in the case of adoptions, the sights and sounds of a birth mother, who may otherwise remain intangible...
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Group helps those in crisis record their stories of life 3/9/04 By MEGHAN HENNELLY NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER What would you like to tell the people you love if you had only a few months to live? It’s a question many of us may have to face one day. In these uncertain times, when we often don’t know what will happen tomorrow, much less in a few months, it seems even more important that we plan ahead for such an emergency. Although the question is a painful one to ponder, Kate Carter firmly believes we should all try while we have the time. Ms. Carter was faced with this very question...
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