Dear Mira

Every life is a documentary waiting to be made.

Dear Mira turns a single conversation with someone you love into a cinematic, narrated biography — woven with their own voice wherever recordings survive, mapped across every place they lived, and explorable by your whole family. Built with Mira, in days, not years.

Free to build · No credit card
a real biography
✦ Jan Daming b. 1937
EP 5 · Letters Across an Ocean
Jan at sixteen — her studio portrait
Summer 1954 · Indiana
“Somehow, Bill noticed Jan. She was sixteen. He called her.”
“He called and said, you want to date? You want to go out with me? And I said, sure.”
“Bill took Jan to a drive-in movie. Afterward, they drove to the Cadillac in Owensboro — the drive-in where all the kids went.”
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See it in motion

Don’t take our word for it. Watch one.

A real biography Mira built — and the three things it becomes besides a film.

The film
Narrated · scored · subtitled
A scene from the documentary
CC word-level✦ Mira narrates
“The still was destroyed. The operation ended. But it says something about Gus — he was willing to take a risk.”
“But there were good moments. Games in the yard. Exploring the creek.”
“A Catholic ceremony at St. Bernard Church. Jan Schulte became Jan Daming.”
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The ancestry map
Every place they lived
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period photo
the letters from America
Lingen, Germany · 1837
“For a younger son with no inheritance coming, the letters from America sounded like the answer to a question that had no other answer.”
✦ from Jan’s film · Mira narrates
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The highlight reel
about 4 min
A moment from the highlight reel
✦ Mira auto-assembles this
The cut you’ll text your cousin
A short, shareable preview generated from the strongest moments — not stranded stills. Press to preview; share to send.
The book
Print-ready PDF
Bill & Jan, Rockport, 1957
Chapter Five
“Bill’s letters were affectionate — he signed them ‘My Darling Williams.’”
The Life of
Jan Daming
Dear Mira
Interior spreads — a cover, a photo page, a narrative page with a pull-quote. Print it, hold it, gift it.
How it works

From a conversation to cinema, in three steps.

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Tell me about the day you arrived.
It was raining. I was six, holding a paper tag with my name…
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Start with a conversation

Sit down and talk. Mira, your AI interviewer, asks the questions a great documentarian would — drawing out the stories and details that make a life unique.

✦ Assembling the film
✓ Ep 1 · The Old Country
✓ Ep 2 · The Crossing
◷ Ep 3 · A New Name · narrating…
Narrator · ambient score · subtitles
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AI builds the documentary

Every memory, photo, and recording becomes a cinematic story: episodes, a narrator, a score written per chapter, and an interactive ancestry map.

Family gathered together
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The family experiences it together

Hit play and it feels like the best documentary you’ve ever seen — except it’s about someone you love. Everyone can add their own memories.

✦ Try it free · no account

Make a 60-second tribute right now.

Upload a handful of photos of someone you love, add a sentence or two, and Dear Mira narrates a short film you can share in about a minute. It’s the whole experience in miniature — free, and yours to share.

Add a few photosTell us about themShare the film
No account needed · ready in about a minute · share anywhere
Features

Everything a life story deserves.

Two young men posed for a studio portrait, early 1900s
“The wandering was over. The building had begun.”

See it like cinema

Narration, your photos in gentle motion, a score written per chapter, word-level subtitles. It doesn’t feel like software.

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Migration · 1837–1963

See where you came from

An interactive ancestry map traces the family across generations — every town, every crossing.

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Hear it in their own voice

Where recordings exist, their voice appears throughout the film. Nothing is more powerful.

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…richer with every
generation.

It grows with the family

Anyone can add photos, memories, and recordings. The biography gets richer over time.

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A trailer you’ll want to share

A short highlight reel of the most powerful moments. The thing you text your cousin.

The Life of
Jan Daming
A Dear Mira Biography

Something you can hold

Export a book-quality PDF to print or gift. The same story, on a shelf, at a reunion.

Why it matters

Nearly one in five Americans is over 65 — and 10,000 more turn 65 every day.

The people who remember the 20th century firsthand are leaving us. The technology to save what they carry — their voice, their faces, their stories — finally exists.

Pricing

Simple, and honest.

All features included
The Film
$149
one film, one price · a year to make it perfect
✦ Build a full documentary biography
✦ Documentary player & ancestry map
✦ Family sharing & contributions
✦ Highlight reel & book-quality PDF
Free to build · no card needed — you only pay when you produce the film.
Questions

The things people ask first.

You do. Everything you upload and create is yours — we never sell your data or train public models on your family’s stories. Download your master film and book-quality PDF, or request a complete archive export free.

Dear Mira is built for this. Bring whatever exists — photographs, letters, voicemails, the memories of people who knew them — and Mira weaves them into a biography. Where a recording of their voice survives, their voice appears throughout the film.

A single conversation is enough to begin — fifteen minutes is plenty. The film assembles in days, not years, and you can keep adding to it for as long as you like.

No. If you can hold a phone and have a conversation, you can make a biography. Mira asks the questions; Dear Mira handles the editing, narration, and assembly.

A cinematic documentary you can watch and share, an interactive ancestry map, a short highlight reel, and a book-quality PDF you can print, gift, or place on a shelf.

Start their biography — free.

Free to build · No credit card · Your data stays yours