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Case Studies

• Riddle Family

  Iverson and Marsha Riddle had always led busy lives. He was Director of Western Carolina State Institution for the Developmentally Disabled, a position he had held for over 30 years. Marsha was Director of Volunteer Services and had literally begun that program before it became a standard department for organizations. They had rich family histories that traced back through the Civil War to the cotton farms of the south. Marsha was sent home from the hospital in a shoebox because she wasn’t expected to live. Her mother “willed her to life,” Marsha says. So it was important for them to give back to their family and commissioning this documentary was one way to do that. We covered five generations from the great grandparents to the newest grandchild. We celebrated the completion of the documentary with a large family dinner at their historic home and a showing of the video.
• Samland Family

  Sue Samland’s parents had immigrated from Germany as teenagers. They met in this country and married. While in Germany though they and their families lived through the war which had a profound effect on each of their lives. Many of these stories are poignantly preserved in the Family Video Documentary created by DiLorenzo Studios. Her father was so small and weak after the war the only trade his parent’s thought he could do was be a tailor. He apprenticed in Germany and later immigrated to the US landing in New York. He worked as a tailor for the next 50 years where they delighted in raising their children and enjoying grandchildren.
• Watson Family

  Looking at the photographs of Louise Watson, of Red Springs, NC during the significant stages in her life, stimulates our imagination to wonder who this beautiful woman was. Luckily her grandchildren won’t have to imagine it, as their Family Video Documentary recorded and preserved her telling her own stories – like the one about ordering groceries as a young mother and having a live chicken delivered to her door for dinner. Now in her 90’s Louise Watson has been a may queen, a mother and wife, active church member, good friend and community volunteer. She is still delivering meals on wheels to people less her age. For Louise and her family this was the gift of a lifetime – literally and poetically.
• Wauren Family

  A young boys uncle had died of Aids a few years before his namesake’s birth. The child’s godmother wanted him to know more about who his uncle really was and not just that he had died of Aids. We gathered together friends of his uncle from all over the country to come to New Jersey for a day of wine, old photographs and stories. What an incredibly moving day it was. Now,15 years later it is even more precious as the young boy himself is grown and off to college. He is proud to bear the name of his uncle.
• Mann Family

  The Mann family wanted an emotional punctuation point at this time in their family’s life and hired DiLorenzo Studios to create a Family Documentary. Their daughter was 6 years old and their son was 10 and still said “I love you” easily to his parents. In the video he read a poem about how much he loved them. You can imagine how much they enjoy watching that now 10 years later. The video documented a time in their life and the lives of their children that will always be precious to them.
• Leonard/Rickler Family

  Henri Leonard-Rickler had always been interested in her family’s genealogy. Even though she was a busy mother, wife, teacher and physician, she once spent an entire year searching for a long lost relative who had disappeared at sea. When DiLorenzo Studios began her Family Documentary she was thinking she was more interested in the idea than her husband and two teenage boys. But once we began the process they wholeheartedly joined the conversation and added so many poignant stories and insights. Two months after we completed the documentary their entire extended family met in Maine at their parents old home place, as they had done for years each summer. This time though would be Henri’s last as she was dying from cancer. Their Family Documentary holds the memory of her vibrancy, kindness and love for her family.
• Steinman Family

  The Steinman’s hired DiLorenzo Studio to create their Family Video Documentary to present to their parents on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. In their dedication they said, “Your profound love of this family has not only been passed on to us but inspired us to preserve our family history. From birth to death we live a series of stories linked by invisible threads. This video is a way of making those threads and your love visible.” This documentary was a Once in a Lifetime Extraordinary Gift for their whole family preserving four generations of history.
• Fran Black

  Fran Black was turning 80 and her daughter, lawyer and acting president of the NC Bar Association, Janet Ward Black wanted a visible way to honor her mother. She hired DiLorenzo Studios to create a Family Video Documentary that was shown to an audience of 250 family and friends during her mothers birthday celebration. Fran had taught school in the area for so long and was so well loved that we interviewed many of her past students like Jack Bogar, Dean of UNC Law School, who were eager to remember her impact on their lives.
• Jessie McFarlane

  Danielle Steinman had promised her grandmother even when she was a child that she would find a way to record her story. When Jessie was in her 90’s and had taken a turn for the worse” Danielle hired DiLorenzo Studios to document her story. We got one afternoon of interviewing Jessie in her hospital room. She was so happy to be telling her stories even though we occasionally needed to stop for her to use her oxygen tank. Unfortunately” Jessie died before we could complete her documentary. Instead we traveled to her birthplace in Savannah” Ga (Tybee Island) and researched her history at the local archives. We recorded Danielle and her young daughter roaming the streets of Savannah until they found an apartment where her grandmother had lived. Jessie would have been happy with the final product. Her family certainly treasures it.
• Sidhu-Malik Family

  Navjeet’s parents had grown up in India as farmers. Her mother was one of the first girls to go to school. Her grandfather was a Sikh and believed in the equality of the sexes and had great vision for his children. Eighty so years ago, only about 2% of girls went to school. When Naiveté‘s parents immigrated to this country for higher education they sponsored all their siblings in beginning professional careers. Navjeet and Raj’s 12 year old daughter narrates part of the video because she is the recipient of all this education and history. Education, Family and Tradition are themes that run through this five-generation history so powerfully shared by the generation now in their late 80’s.
• Jaffee Family

  Lewis Jaffee lost his mother when he was seven years old and he came alone to America from Russia when he was only 13 years old. His stories of being a young boy in a new country are forever preserved for future generations. His daughter, Lynne said, “I felt my father deserved to be honored in a way he had never been in his life. So for his 80th birthday I hired DiLorenzo Studios to create our Family Video Documentary. I can’t think of a finer gift to give the whole family. It’s hard to even put words to it.”
• Costa Family

  Manuel Costa’s parents came from the Azure Islands and settled in an ethnic pocket in New Jersey. When they married they moved within a mile of their parents and lived in the same house for the next 50 years. His dad worked the night shift in the mills, the children all went to school across the street and even the local pub was only blocks away. Their Family Video Documentary captures the rich history that took place within these few blocks. His mother wore rubber bands on her wrist that she wouldn’t throw away because of the impact the depression had on her life and his father still makes rabbit stew in their tiny kitchen. What a story they had to preserve.

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