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A feature film · PG-13 · Paranormal Thriller
Seeking a fresh start, a woman returns to her family’s farm, where the house itself guards the secrets of a violent past.
KEEPSAKE follows Charlotte, a young woman unraveling in a house that seems to know her better than she knows herself. As disturbing dreams begin to feel less like nightmares and more like memories, Charlotte uncovers a buried history tied to the home and her own family lineage. With each revelation, she finds herself pulled between two opposing forces; one awakening a strength within her, the other drawing her toward a darkness that has been waiting for her return.
Her longtime friend and roommate, Adam, recently home from traveling and harboring feelings he has never confessed, does everything he can to support her as reality begins to fracture. A visit to the local library introduces Violet, a quirky librarian whose knowledge unlocks unsettling truths about the house, its rituals, and the secrets it has worked to protect.
As the house itself resists her investigation while pulling her deeper inside, Charlotte is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: the evil closing in on her isn’t trying to destroy her… it’s trying to claim her.
KEEPSAKE is defined by restraint, clarity, and emotional precision. The camera is patient and deliberate, favoring composed frames and natural perspective over stylization. Movement is minimal and motivated, allowing the audience to settle into each image rather than be pushed through it.
Light is treated as practical and expressive. Scenes rely on motivated sources like windows, lamps, fire, and candlelight, with darkness used also to shape space and mood. The palette stays muted and earthy, with warmth often tied to fire and ritual, and cooler tones reflecting isolation, distance, and emotional restraint.
KEEPSAKE grew out of a fascination with inheritance: not just what we receive from our parents, but what we are unknowingly shaped by without our consent. I have always been drawn to stories where the most frightening truths are not external threats, but internal reckonings rooted in memory, identity, and legacy. This film asks what happens when the past is not something you uncover, but something that slowly uncovers you.
Stylistically, KEEPSAKE is restrained and patient, designed to reward attention and emotional investment. As a filmmaker, I am interested in horror that lingers, that stays with you well after the credits end. Like much of my work, this film lives in the quiet spaces between moments, where love and fear coexist, and where becoming yourself may require leaving something, or someone, behind.
— Duane Hansen Fernandez
The horror genre carries inherent equity. Audiences are highly responsive, and performance potential extends across theatrical, streaming, and ancillary markets. Horror and elevated thrillers consistently over-perform relative to budget, creating strong ROI potential with reduced financial risk.
Our goal is precision and craft. KEEPSAKE is designed as an elevated theatrical experience, driven by performance, cinematography, art direction, score and sound design. Every department contributes to a film that feels premium and cinematic.
Producer, Writer & Director
18-year veteran of the entertainment industry. Producer, Writer & Director who has worked with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Marvel, Fox Searchlight, A24, Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony Pictures, NBC, Fox and FX. His recent short film A Place to Fall Down is an Oscar-qualifying work starring Clifton Collins Jr.
Producer
Producer working across film and television, known for taste-driven collaborations with some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema. Producing credits include Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins), winner of three Academy Awards, Spencer (dir. Pablo Larraín), and The Luckiest Man in America (dir. Samir Oliveros).
Producer
Producer and creative executive with over a decade of experience shaping innovative, culture-driven work across the entertainment industry. Her work has been featured in outlets including Rolling Stone, Time, The Hollywood Reporter, Newsweek, Vice, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Billboard, and MSNBC.
Investor & Finance Lead
Serial entrepreneur and investor with over a decade raising capital and structuring investments in a wide array of investment types with experience spanning early stage financing, growth equity, private credit, and project finance. New to film, he brings a fresh look at how to balance creating elevated art with the need to drive returns for investors.
Some doors only open from the inside.
If KEEPSAKE speaks to you, knock.
Come in.
Tell us what KEEPSAKE stirred in you, or what questions you have.
— Rebecca, Duane, Andrew & Joey