About our work

About us

Local freelance talent

Producing professional videos takes a skilled team. For our memoir work, it's usually a team of three: interviewer, camera operator, and post-production editor. When you choose to work with Moving Memoirs, you're supporting local Alberta talent.

Our founder, Joan Bondar, has spent undisclosed decades reading, writing, interviewing, and editing for clients from many walks of life. She's learned something from everyone she's interviewed. Joan has the "editor's curse" that Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis spoke of: being interested in everything.

After helping a few clients self-publish, Joan was unhappy to learn that the family members for whom the books were written rarely took the time to read them. Yet, they'd sit for hours watching videos and clicking social media links.

We've become a society of watchers; readers are in the minority.

And so, Moving Memoirs was founded to help clients communicate with friends and family in a way that engages more senses and is accessible to all ages. In fact, closed-captioning extends video's reach to those with hearing impairment, and can be provided in most languages.

Joan appreciates her talented freelancers and the joy they bring to clients when they see their finished videos. She's striving to attract skilled interviewers in many more languages so Moving Memoirs can serve more Albertans.