WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR SUCCESS STORIES.
We’re interested in people who have followed an instinct, an interest, or a curiosity long enough for it to become part of how they live.
Sometimes it becomes a craft. A routine. A community. A purpose. Sometimes it simply becomes something they can’t imagine their life without.
It isn’t about perfect lives. It’s about lives that feel like their own.
HOW THE FILMS ARE MADE
TIME SPENT TOGETHER, NOT JUST AN INTERVIEW.
Each film begins by stepping into someone’s world for a few hours.
We follow them where they naturally spend their time, letting conversations happen along the way. The routines, pauses, unexpected moments, and things that happen in between are often what tell us the most.
There is no script to follow. The story takes shape from the person in front of the camera.
BEHIND WHAT A LIFE
What a Life was created and is directed by Valentine Di Marco, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles.
Drawn to documentary filmmaking and the people she meets through it, Valentine started the series as a way to spend more time with people whose lives made her curious — and to understand what keeps pulling them back to what they do.
Each film is shot, shaped, and directed with the same intention: to get close enough for the person, not just the activity, to come through.