Fascination Film Studio

Fascination Film Studio We tell the stories of the people and places that have shaped the world around us. Even ordinary people have fascinating stories. Let's tell yours.
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01/05/2026

Once in a lifetime moment to tell the stories of a lifetime. Let us help you do this too! DM and we can talk.

Started the year with a movie premiere!Making a Legacy Film is an incredibly special thing for a family. Doing a screeni...
01/05/2026

Started the year with a movie premiere!

Making a Legacy Film is an incredibly special thing for a family.

Doing a screening in a theater takes it to another level.

But what makes this one so special is that it was MY family.

This film is about The Last Harvest. After 111 of one family farming this land, it came to an end. So we recorded it - and many of the stories that unfolded there over the century before.

The theater filled with family and friends was joyful, emotional, and unforgettable!

It’s now available for viewing on demand.
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Shall we do your family’s story next?

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Kinda forgot that Clark Griswold got emotional watching a bunch of old 8MM film too. (If you have some old film we can c...
12/28/2025

Kinda forgot that Clark Griswold got emotional watching a bunch of old 8MM film too.

(If you have some old film we can convert it for you and make something watchable today on modern devices.)

I don't make music, I make little movies, and if I didn't have to charge money for them, I think they'd all be about Gar...
12/19/2025

I don't make music, I make little movies, and if I didn't have to charge money for them, I think they'd all be about Gary.

I don't play the lottery, except that at Christmas it used to be that my Dad, who had a lot of Gary in him, and my mom, who was a lot like Debbie, used to put scratch off tickets in our stockings.

Sometimes as a wink to that my brother and I will still slip each other a scratch off at Christmas.

I just have to stop typing here for a second because I have to compose myself which might not make sense to you.

Maybe you haven't ever known Gary, or a Gary, or a Debbie, or what I'm even talking about.

It's this song that I've been really hanging on lately, Gary, Stephen Wilson Jr..

I'm a Jr. too.

If you know his music, you kind of know what the deal is with that.

But back to those lottery tickets, I ever scratched off one of those and it said, "you'll never have to work again," I wouldn't stop working, I'd just go point my camera at Gary and I wouldn't care that he couldn't pay me to do it.

As a matter of fact, I wrote a book because I know that Gary and his family can't pay me, but I still want their story to be told, and I want to tell them how to do it.

But - if I'm being honest - I know that Gary doesn't read much, either. It's not that he doesn't read at all, but he probably won't read my book. Which means I need to be telling him and his niece or maybe Debbie some other way, probably by speaking at the VFW. So if you know someone who can help me do that, let me know.

Gary's story is worth telling, but if he never gets around to it, Stephen Wilson, Jr. did it better than I probably ever could anyway.

(- Teeg, Timothy George, Jr.)

https://youtu.be/5TzEOUpbaVI?si=sgTgdu7R5196d2wZ

Want to play a game this holiday season when you’re together with family and friends?Ask these questions. Better yet: re...
12/17/2025

Want to play a game this holiday season when you’re together with family and friends?

Ask these questions.

Better yet: record it. You can just use your phone.

Save the recording.

Someday you will be glad you did.

Trust me.

This is a fun game and everyone wins.

We make documentaries that are mostly about people who are alive, but who someday won’t be. So I’m always treading aroun...
12/09/2025

We make documentaries that are mostly about people who are alive, but who someday won’t be.

So I’m always treading around this thing of capturing life because of the certainty that it ends.

My friend Noelle deals with Estates & Trusts through her company Legado. She shared this:

Five Things Building Legado Has Taught Me About Death and Grief

🛑 When someone mentions that a loved one passed away, don’t say:
“I’m so sorry for your loss.”
💚 Instead, try: “What was their name?” or “What were they like?”

🛑 Death is taboo.
💚 Death is everywhere in the media, it’s grief that’s hidden. For most of us, grief is a foreign language we only learn in crisis.

🛑 Shielding children from funerals or softening the truth protects them.
💚 Age-appropriate exposure gives them language and context long before life gives them specifics.

🛑 The “five stages of grief” were never about grief.
(Kübler-Ross observed the dying, not the bereaved.)
💚 Grief moves in waves, not steps. Don’t give it a timeline.

🛑 Talking about grief and death is wrong, uncomfortable, or something to “save for later.”
💚 Avoidance does nothing but make the inevitable harder.

Planning doesn’t invite death, it empowers the living.

If we treated grief less like a failure and more like a universal human experience, we’d all be better prepared.

I never expected to be in this space, but I’ve also never felt so welcomed and at peace.

Planning for death won’t make life darker.
But avoiding it absolutely will.

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If you want to talk with me about a Legacy Film for yourself or a family member, we can.

Or we could talk about a documentary for your company or community, too.

If you want to know about an estates and trusts platform through your company, you need to get to know Noelle and I’d be happy to introduce you.

I have always loved writing Christmas cards. Writing to clients this year feels extra special. There is a new layer of s...
12/07/2025

I have always loved writing Christmas cards.

Writing to clients this year feels extra special. There is a new layer of snow on the ground here, cards have started showing up at our house, the tree is up, I have egg nog in my coffee.

But those are all secondary reasons.

The real reason is that I’ve spent so much time wirh these clients through my screen. Whether it’s the families, or the companies, or the individual artists, coaches or communities that I’ve gotten to serve this year, I feel so close to them.

I think it’s because of the vulnerability and trust they put in me when they tell their stories, and then my responsibility to get it right in editing.

And we spend time together; I spent a lot of time with them through the screen during the hours of editing.

So writing these cards feels like - not just a token, but a chance to say to them how much they’ve come to mean to me as I look back on the year that they’ve shaped for me.

Three pics of me - can you tell real from AI?Me: Teeg Stouffer // btwOf course you can tell the real photo from the AI v...
12/03/2025

Three pics of me - can you tell real from AI?

Me: Teeg Stouffer // btw

Of course you can tell the real photo from the AI versions.

I get asked often if I use AI in my documentaries.

No AI - I only do “real,” so I don’t even really do docu-drama.

I tell true stories
about real people
in their words
and the words of the people around them.

I do sometimes use voice actors as narrators and of course I use illustrations; there are situations where I might use AI to help with a graphic or illustration but I try as much as possible for real, real, real.

Because if you’re doing a film to create legacy for a loved one, you don’t want the AI version, you want them. The real deal.

The “A” in A.I. is “artificial.

What we do is real.

12/02/2025

What's happening in Ecuador is both heartbreaking - and heartwarming.

This feels like the perfect piece to share on .

Give it a watch and see for yourself.

This holiday season, let me encourage you: take unposed photos. Capture a little bit of video from the ordinary moments....
11/26/2025

This holiday season, let me encourage you: take unposed photos. Capture a little bit of video from the ordinary moments. Someday you will be really glad you did.

Thankful for you, for all the people who are trusting me - and us at Fascination Films - with your stories.

Thankful for legacy, and for people who are intentional about creating it.

My heart is full as I head home from Medford after a very special few days. What an honor to create a documentary about ...
11/16/2025

My heart is full as I head home from Medford after a very special few days.

What an honor to create a documentary about what God has done in a church over the past 20 years.

These kinds of milestone films are so helpful in how they mark a moment in time, create space for reflection, and tell the story of how God sees people through hard times and makes beautiful things out of them.

Filming this came with a WILD story - but that's for another day.

Today, I'm just so grateful to have been able to help record this story - and to be headed home to my family. Last filming trip of the year is a wrap!

11/12/2025

Noticed something at my son’s Veteran’s Day program last night. The kids got to honor a veteran they know, and so many chose great grandparents.

On the one hand, could be because total percentage of military service is lower now than it once was - no draft - but there’s something else here too.

The generations. The value of service through a family story. Remembering.

Record these stories, everybody. They’re really important.

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