Strawberry journalist creates studio to capture life stories on film

Tiburon’s Angelo Capozzi (left) is interviewed by Strawberry resident Priya David Clemens (center) for a film Clemens is making for Keepsake Studios, her new business that focuses on creating personal documentaries. Capozzi co-founded nonprofit Rotaplast, which provides cleft lip and palate surgeries to children worldwide. (via Priya David Clemens)

Strawberry resident and longtime journalist Priya David Clemens decided to honor her father ahead of his 75th birthday by creating a video of his life story to showcase at his party.

The response to the video was overwhelmingly positive, she says. She showed the video again at her father’s memorial service in 2024; he died at the age of 84 after battling dementia for two years and, at the time of his death, was unable to recall or share many of his memories, she says.

After the memorial screening, Clemens says she was approached by many attendees with the same sentiment: “I wish I had this for my mom or my dad. I wish that I could do something like this.”

The experience prompted Clemens to create Keepsake Studios, a business that creates personal documentaries of people, couples and families for special occasions. The company’s first completed documentary is of Tiburon resident Angelo Capozzi, the 92-year-old plastic surgeon who cofounded Rotaplast, a nonprofit that provides surgery to children with a cleft lip or palate anomalies who otherwise would not receive treatment. Since 1992, the organization has conducted 372 missions to perform surgery on nearly 22,000 patients.

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