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Lámina 1 Masa
A short film pitch · A grandmother, a grandson, and one recipe never written down. · Written to be filmed · 15 minutes · Spanish with English subtitles · In development — seeking production partners · she never wrote it down
Lámina 2 Logline
The film in one breath · logline — read this first · When his grandmother's hands begin to tremble, Mateo — a city cook whom plating has made proud — comes home to learn the mole she has always refused to write down. · But the recipe lives in her hands, not on paper, and every Sunday she teaches it the only way she knows: by making him do it wrong until he does it right. · Fifteen minutes · Two people · One pot
Lámina 3 The story
Synopsis · Act One — The Plan · Mateo, 27, works the line at a restaurant that just put his grandmother's mole on the menu without asking. He drives home to Oaxaca with a notebook and a plan: get the recipe, get back by Monday. · a notebook and a plan · Act Two — The Metate · Abuela Carmen, 74, has another plan. She hands him a metate, not a pen. Chili toasting, nixtamal, patience. He photographs everything; she swats the phone away. The recipe refuses to be recorded. · a metate, not a pen · Act Three — With His Hands
Lámina 4 Characters
Who we follow · Abuela Carmen · 74 · The Grandmother · She measures with her palm, seasons by smell, and has fed a town for fifty years. She refuses to write the recipe down — for a reason she keeps until the last scene. · “A recipe is a letter to someone you’ll never meet.” · fifty years of Sunday lunches · Mateo · 27 · The Grandson
Lámina 5 The world
Where it lives · Carmen's kitchen, golden hour — nothing here is a set. · The kitchen · One room, one afternoon, told in real time. The whole film fits inside the space where Carmen has cooked her whole life. · The props · A clay comal, a metate, a wooden spoon worn to the shape of her hand. The props are the production design. · The town · A character at the edges: a rooster, a neighbor's radio, the church bell that ends the day.
Lámina 6 Visual tone
How it looks · shot like a recipe, never a lesson · steam, chilies, one warm light · Handheld, unhurried · The camera sits at table height — a guest in the kitchen, never a visitor with a plan. · Warm practicals · One window, one bulb, fire under the comal. Faces lit the way food is lit. · Hands, close-up
Lámina 7 Sound & silence
How it sounds · No score for the first ten minutes. The kitchen is the soundtrack: the metate, the pop of toasting chilies, the lid’s rattle. · One son jarocho theme, played by a local trio, enters only when Carmen tells the truth. · Silence after the bowl drops — held long enough to be uncomfortable. · Dialogue is sparse and in Zapotec-inflected Spanish; the film trusts what is not said. · what is not said fills the room
Lámina 8 Comparables
Neighbors in spirit · films we grew up next to · La Mécanique des choses · small-room two-handers · What we take: two people, one space, no escape from each other. · Tampopo · Like Water for Chocolate · food memory films · What we take: cooking as emotion you can film, not narrate.
Lámina 9 Why now
Why this film, why now from the notebook · “Every family has one recipe that dies with one person.” · — The premise of Masa · An inheritance with a deadline · Home cooking is being filmed more than ever — but almost always as nostalgia. Masa treats it as something urgent, passed on before it is gone. · Cheap to shoot, hard to forget · One location, two actors, three days, real food. A small production with a long aftertaste. · It plays everywhere
Lámina 10 The ask
What we need · We are raising finishing funds for a three-day shoot — one kitchen, two actors, real mole cooked on camera. · Completion financing · Funds to take the film from locked script to finished picture. · A producing partner · Someone at the table for the shoot and the road after. · Post facilities · Sound and color — the last pinch that finishes the dish.
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