Northfield Pictures presents
La Última Luz
The Last Light · A feature film pitch
LOGLINE
In a dying silver-mining town in the mountains of Hidalgo, a retired miner goes back underground to find the lantern of the son he lost.
Some lights never go out.
THE WORLD
A town built on silver.
Now running on memory.
CHARACTERS
Two people. One mountain.
68 · RETIRED MINER
Forty years underground. He knows every tunnel by sound, and he never forgave the mountain.
24 · HIS GRANDDAUGHTER
Back from the city to sell the family house. She ends up holding the lantern.
TONE & LOOK
Fog, lamplight and silence.
WHY THIS FILM, WHY NOW
Small town. Universal story.
Intimate Mexican stories keep finding audiences at festivals and on streaming worldwide.
Real mining towns, real tunnels, real families. No sets.
A father, a granddaughter and a lantern. Anyone, anywhere, understands it.
PRODUCTION PLAN
24 shooting days. One winter.
BUDGET
Lean, and all on screen.
USD TOTAL BUDGET*
* Illustrative figures for this concept pitch
ROAD TO AUDIENCES
Festivals first. Then the world.
La Última Luz
Some lights
never go out.
Concept pitch · Seeking co-producers