Your Legacy Preserved.
Your Family Story, As Told By Those Who Lived It.
ABOUT
The Archival Group specializes in legacy preservation for extraordinary individuals, family estates, and cultural institutions. We curate, digitize, and organize invaluable personal archives—home movies, photographs, letters, audio recordings, film and video formats, artifacts, and more—ensuring these irreplaceable materials are preserved for future generations.
In addition, we produce original interviews and cinematic footage to document family oral histories, helping clients tell their own stories in their own words. Together, these elements form a rich, enduring archive that serves as the foundation for future projects: memoirs, biographies, documentaries, estate records, and more.
The Archival Group operates exclusively by referral, offering a white-glove experience tailored to each client. We uphold the highest standards of privacy, discretion, and digital security—using protocols trusted by top film studios and television networks to safeguard your most personal assets.
THE VALUE
A personal archive is a priceless asset. It holds the raw materials of legacy—images, voices, memories, and meaning—that once lost, can never be replaced. Preserving and organizing these materials ensures that a family’s story doesn’t just survive but lives on in a form that can be experienced, learned from, and shared.
More than preservation, the archive becomes the foundation for the future: a structured, secure body of data and storytelling that supports memoirs, documentaries, estate planning, and next-generation legacy tools. It is a living record—accessible, expandable, and invaluable for decades to come.
At its core, our work protects what’s irreplaceable and transforms it into something lasting: a family’s voice, memory, and identity, preserved with clarity and intention.
OUR SERVICES
Discovery & Strategy: Collaborate with clients to define archival goals and priorities, establishing the project's vision and scope.
Archival Curation: Evaluate, digitize, and organize personal archival assets and artifacts into a thematic, searchable digital archive.
Story Capture: Produce and edit original audio-visual content, including interviews and custom footage, to further enrich and deepen the client’s narrative.
Creative Sourcing: Research and gather external materials—film, video, images, articles—that enrich and contextualize the client’s archive.
Rights & Clearances: Negotiate with third-party archival sources to obtain watermarked materials and pre-negotiate rates for future licensing or broadcast.
Legacy Record: Deliver a fully secure and robust audio-visual archive designed for long-term preservation and expansion over time.
WHO WE ARE
As documentary filmmakers, we’ve been entrusted to tell the stories of some of the most dynamic and accomplished individuals and companies in entertainment, media, music, sports, science, and technology. Past collaborators include:
Rihanna, Paul McCartney & Rick Rubin, Serena Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Naomi Osaka, Kid Cudi, Garth Brooks, Freddie Roach, NASA & JPL, Blue Origin, NFL, NBA, Premier League, NASCAR, and many others.
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Founder BRANDON CARROLL is an award-winning producer and media executive with over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry, having shaped some of the most celebrated documentary projects in recent years. In 2014, he co-founded Film 45 alongside acclaimed filmmaker Peter Berg. Under his creative leadership as Executive Vice President of Programming, Film 45 became an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award–nominated production company known for premium non-scripted storytelling across film and television.
Carroll served as an Executive Producer or Producer on more than 30 documentary features and series, including Good Night Oppy (Amazon), Shaq (HBO), Boys in Blue (Showtime), McCartney 3,2,1 (Hulu), Victoria’s Secret: Angels & Demons (Hulu), Naomi Osaka (Netflix), Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On (A&E), The Keepers (Netflix), and QB1: Beyond the Lights (Netflix). He earned an Emmy for his work on HBO’s State of Play sports documentary series and produced several acclaimed features such as A Man Named Scott (Amazon) and Serena (Epix). In 2022, Carroll executive produced the Academy Award–nominated short documentary Audible (Netflix).
FAQs
What’s the ultimate deliverable?
A highly structured, searchable, and expandable archive—composed of curated media assets, interview footage, documentation, and metadata. It’s something your family or estate can use for decades to come. It can be private, shared, or expanded into public storytelling when the time is right.
How do I know this will still matter in 50 or 100 years?
Because legacy isn’t about trends—it’s about transmission. Your descendants will want to know who you were, what you believed, what you built, and why it mattered. With the rise of AI, immersive media, and generational learning tools, your story will be even more valuable in the future—if it’s preserved with care today.
When is the right time to do this?
The best time is now—while the memories are fresh, the materials are accessible, and you’re here to help shape the story yourself. Archives age. Files get lost. Stories fade. By acting now, you’re protecting what’s irreplaceable—and ensuring it reflects your voice, not someone else’s reconstruction years later.
Can I control what is included or excluded?
Absolutely. You have full creative control. We work closely with you to shape what gets documented, preserved, and shared. Whether you want something expansive or something intimate and private, the archive reflects your boundaries and intentions.
Can this help with estate planning or succession?
Yes. Many clients use their archives as part of a broader estate or legacy strategy—creating materials that clarify personal philosophy, family values, or institutional vision. We can also produce time-released recordings or message capsules tied to specific milestones, moments, or heirs.
What if I want to create something for public release later?
We design every archive to be modular and future-ready. If down the line you decide to write a memoir, produce a documentary, or share your story with a larger audience, your archive will be ready. It becomes a launchpad, not a limitation.
How long does a project typically take?
It depends on the scope, but most engagements last several months. We work at your pace—fast-tracking urgent priorities while giving time and care to meaningful storytelling. Our clients are busy people; we adapt to your schedule without compromising quality.
Can I expand or revisit the archive later?
Yes. Your archive is designed to grow with you. We can update it with new materials, interviews, or themes over time—turning it into a living record that evolves across chapters of your life, or even generations of your family.
What makes The Archival Group different?
We combine decades of top-tier documentary storytelling with elite-level archival strategy and production. Our team has told the stories of world-renowned figures in entertainment, music, science, sports, and tech. We offer a white-glove, referral-only service with total discretion and security.
How private and secure is this?
Extremely. We use studio-grade digital security protocols to protect all client materials. Your archive can be stored in private servers, family-controlled cloud systems, or even on custom physical drives. No one accesses it unless you allow it.
How do you future-proof my archive against AI misuse, like deepfakes?
Deepfakes are generated without consent or source truth. What we do is the opposite—we build a high-integrity, authenticated record of you, created intentionally and privately. If future tools like AI or immersive tech are going to reference you, they should do it with your real voice, story, and data—not guesses.
What does The Archival Group do?
We help extraordinary individuals preserve and shape their legacy. We curate, digitize, and organize personal archives—photos, home movies, video footage, letters, audio recordings, documents—and capture original oral history interviews to tell your story in your own words. The result is a secure, beautifully curated, future-facing archive built to last for generations.
Who is this service for?
Our clients are artists, cultural figures, business leaders, creators, philanthropists, athletes, visionaries—people whose lives have helped shape industries, movements, and/or communities, and who want to ensure their story lives on with clarity, intention, and integrity.
Why does this matter now?
Most personal archives—photos, drives, hardcopies—are scattered, at risk, or slowly degrading. And most people never take the time to record the story behind the materials. We bring everything together and preserve it before it’s too late—so that your family, future biographers, or historians have a reliable, organized, and emotionally rich foundation to work from.
You have the power to tell your story and preserve what’s irreplaceable.
We create a digital archive of your life,
so your legacy lives on—in your words, your voice, your truth.
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