Your Life, Your Story: Create a Video Legacy
Your Life, Your Story: Create a Video Legacy is a five-session workshop for turning personal memories into a finished three-minute video. Participants will work with photographs, home videos, letters, documents, and other family or personal archival materials to identify a meaningful story, plan and film any needed new footage, and edit the material into a video legacy to share with loved ones and future generations.
The workshop combines individual reflection with creative collaboration and covers scriptwriting, production planning, filming, and post-production. The completed work will be presented in a final screening.
When: November 9–23, 2026
Showtimes: November 9, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; November 10, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; November 16, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; November 17, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.; and November 23, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Schedule: Day 1 focuses on story and script; Day 2 covers script review and planning; Day 3 is devoted to filming; Day 4 covers editing; and Day 5 includes the final edit and screening.
Program: Participants learn to focus on a compelling story from their life experiences, organize and prepare for filming, use video technology, choose visuals from personal and public archives, and shape their footage into a three-minute video.
Teaching Artist: Olha Onyshko is a Bethesda-based, award-winning documentary filmmaker originally from Ukraine. Her films include *Women of Maidan* and *Three Stories of Galicia*. She is developing the historical fantasy series *She Who Became Queen*, whose pilot received Best Unproduced Script at the Madrid International Film Festival. Onyshko is a Docs In Progress teaching artist and has previously led this workshop.
Tickets: Price not available. Registration is requested through the linked Eventbrite page.
Run time: Each session lasts three hours. The finished video is approximately three minutes long.
Venue: Docs In Progress, 8560 Second Avenue, Suite 113, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.
Ages: The page does not state an age restriction.
Accessibility: No accessibility information is currently available for this event.
Parking: The entrance is on Apple Avenue, around the corner from Alexander House. The Cameron Street garage is open 24 hours a day and charges on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; the first four hours cost $1 per hour, with additional hours at 65 cents per hour. Garage parking is free on weekends, federal holidays, and after 7:00 p.m. on weekdays. Payment is available at garage stations by cash or credit card, and through the ParkMobile or MobileNow apps. Nearby metered street parking may also be available; daytime Monday-through-Saturday parking generally requires payment and is limited to one or two hours. Parking or standing in spaces marked for police only is prohibited.