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 film — 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 film
✦ Jan Daming b. 1937
Chapter 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 film Mira built — and the three things it becomes besides a film.

The film
Narrated · scored · subtitled
A moment from the documentary
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“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 · the narrator
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The highlight reel
about 4 min
A moment from the highlight reel
✦ Mira auto-assembles this
The moment you’ll text your cousin
A short, shareable preview generated from the strongest moments — not stranded stills. Play 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
✓ Chapter 1 · The Old Country
✓ Chapter 2 · The Crossing
◷ Chapter 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: chapters, a narrator, a score written for each one, 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 makes a short, narrated 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 film 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 Film

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
✦ Your complete documentary — made & online for a year
✦ A year to make it perfect — keep refining it through your first year
✦ A cinematic finish — narrated, scored & subtitled
✦ A keepsake to keep — your finished film, yours forever
Free to build · no card needed — you only pay when you make 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 the finished film as a file, make a book-quality PDF of it, or ask us for 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 film. Where a recording of their voice survives, their voice appears throughout the film.

A single conversation is enough to begin — about fifteen minutes is plenty. The film comes together 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 film. 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 film — free.

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