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 (Friday Night Lights, Hancock, Lone Survivor). 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).

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FAQs

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.

CONTACT:

BRANDON@THEARCHIVALGROUP.COM