Hello, I'm Erin — an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and creative director with 25 years of storytelling experience. I've sat across from Michael Caine, Spike Lee, Tina Fey, Colin Powell, Dave Chappelle and Dame Diana Rigg to name a few — and while filming with stars is definitely fun, what I've learned is that the best stories don't come from celebrities. They come from people who've never been asked the right questions.

My career has taken me across BBC America, National Geographic, and The Economist, launching some of television's most iconic brands. But the work I'm most proud of has always been authentic storytelling — the moment a person pauses, looks away, and tells you the thing they've never said out loud.

But the story I almost missed was my mom’s.

As a sandwich generation parent — with young’ish kids at home and aging parents I adore — I've come to understand something deeply: days are long but years are short. My mother, my mentor, is doing wonderfully at almost 85. However, we've had a few health scares recently, and I realized that for all my professional storytelling credentials, I had never sat her down and captured her story, our family story properly. I’ve done the research, and I know I'm not alone.

So I left corporate America to build something I couldn't find anywhere else.

Welcome to Perennial Films — a premium personal documentary company I founded specifically to capture the stories of real people: aging parents, milestone moments, and growing families. Through beautifully produced, directed, and edited films that are designed to be a gift across generations.

Most families have photo albums but no real record of their origin story — the voices, the laughter, the insights that need to be passed on, the details that made the people who shaped you who they are. Smartphones are remarkable, but they don't return the quality you imagine or thoughtful film they deserve. Of course we all tell ourselves we'll get to it — until we can't.

Perennial Films was created for that moment before "too late."

I should tell you: my first paying client was my mother. Thank you Mom, for everything.