Reel Places Preservation Foundation
Preserving Film History and Cultural Memories
What We Do
— We Find & Fund
Identifying iconic filming locations and securing the resources to protect them.
— We Restore
Bringing locations back to their on-screen look and feel, honoring their cinematic legacy.
— We Protect
Ensuring historic sites are preserved for future generations and not lost to time or neglect.
— We Connect
Creating opportunities for fans, communities, and cultural groups to engage with film history.
— We Share
Providing access through events, tours, and experiences that make movie places come alive
— We Inspire
Using film heritage to spark creativity, memory, and a deeper sense of cultural belonging.
Some filming locations can’t be saved by one family alone—it takes a community to keep movie history alive.
Our Backstory
Amber Neufeld (founder and President of Reel Places Preservation Foundation) purchased, restored, and brought the Twilight Swan House back to its on-screen look—transforming it into a living piece of film history. The project stretched her family to their financial limits, yet proved successful in making an iconic filming location accessible to the fandom. That experience revealed both the power and the limits of doing this work alone.
Many filming locations simply cannot sustain themselves through tourism, and private investment often isn’t enough to save them. Some places need something bigger: a community effort. Fans, creators, and cultural supporters working together to preserve what matters before it’s lost to time or redevelopment. That realization sparked Reel Places—a foundation built to take the mission beyond personal means, turning shared passion into lasting preservation.
Donate
Support Our Mission To Preserve Cinematic History
The stories we love were born in real places — quiet streets, tucked-away diners and forgotten buildings that became immortal on screen. With your support, we can rescue these iconic filming locations from time, neglect, and demolition, turning them into living memories that fans can visit and experience. Your dontation helps us protect places where movie magic happened, so future generations can walk the same steps, feel the same wonder, and keep the stories alive.