Keepsake
Short Film
Non Union
Los Angeles
Keepsake is a gothic romantic drama set in a storm-lashed world of candlelit laboratories and desolate moors, where grief becomes the gateway to obsession. After the sudden death of Eleanor Marlowe, the brilliant but emotionally sealed Ambrose Wythe turns to forbidden science in a desperate attempt to undo loss. His closest friend, Reed Varrow, urges him to accept death’s finality, serving as a moral anchor as Ambrose descends into dangerous, self-justifying experimentation. When Ambrose succeeds in restoring Eleanor to life, the miracle reveals itself as a transgression. Eleanor awakens altered—her memories fractured, her body bearing the scars of death—and must slowly confront the terrifying truth of what she has become. As villagers begin to fear what they do not understand, Reed’s compassion for Eleanor collides with Ambrose’s growing possessiveness and horror at the consequences of his own actions. Rather than relying on spectacle or traditional horror tropes, Keepsake unfolds as an intimate psychological chamber piece about love distorted by grief. The film explores the fragile boundary between devotion and defilement, and follows Eleanor’s quiet emergence into strength as she reclaims her sense of self in a world that would rather destroy what it cannot comprehend.
Roles For This Project
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Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Man
Los Angeles
30 - 50
Non Union
Short Film
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Character Reed is the story’s moral anchor: stoic, grounded, emotionally contained. He loved Eleanor too—but chose restraint where Ambrose chose obsession. He is not cold. He is controlled. Reed represents conscience, duty, and the cost of loving someone enough to let them go. Acting Demands Quiet... [See More]
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Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Man
Los Angeles
30 - 50
Non Union
Short Film
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Ambrose is a brilliant, emotionally sealed man whose grief fractures into obsession. He begins as a tragic romantic—restrained, wounded, deeply in love—and rapidly evolves into something darker: a man who mistakes possession for devotion. Think: Oscar Isaac / Pedro Pascal / Tom Hardy in intensity a... [See More]
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Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Woman
Los Angeles
25 - 35
Non Union
Short Film
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Character Eleanor begins as gentle, intelligent, emotionally open. After her resurrection, she becomes something new: wounded but quietly formidable. Her arc is subtle: innocence → disorientation → recognition → quiet strength Think: Mia Goth / Ana de Armas — emotional precision over spectacle. T... [See More]
More Roles For This Project
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Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Los Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Character Reed is the story’s moral anchor: stoic, grounded, emotionally contained. He loved Eleanor too—but chose restraint where Ambrose chose obsession. He is not cold. He is controlled. Reed represents conscience, duty, and the cost of loving someone enough to let them go. Acting Demands Quiet... [See More]
-
Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Los Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Ambrose is a brilliant, emotionally sealed man whose grief fractures into obsession. He begins as a tragic romantic—restrained, wounded, deeply in love—and rapidly evolves into something darker: a man who mistakes possession for devotion. Think: Oscar Isaac / Pedro Pascal / Tom Hardy in intensity a... [See More]
-
Short Film
$75 stipend for 5 ho...
Role Rate:
$75 stipend for 5 hour day
Los Angeles
Non Union
Submissions Due:
02/11/2026
Character Eleanor begins as gentle, intelligent, emotionally open. After her resurrection, she becomes something new: wounded but quietly formidable. Her arc is subtle: innocence → disorientation → recognition → quiet strength Think: Mia Goth / Ana de Armas — emotional precision over spectacle. T... [See More]
