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The Tear
The aurora is not a light. It is a seam. Every twelve hundred winters it thins. This is that winter.
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01 · Concept trailerRuntime · 1:10
Format
Feature Concept
Genre
Arctic Sci-Fi Action
Status
Concept Trailer Locked
Direction
Pakko De La Torre
02 · Logline
When a hairline tear in the sky over the high Arctic starts spilling dimensional predators into the ice, a young Inuit hunter unearths a weapon left in the permafrost by the Star Wanderers — a cosmic shard the elders have been guarding for a thousand winters, waiting for the night the aurora would finally split open.
03 · Director's statement
Written & directed by
Pakko
De La Torre
- Role
- Writer · Director
- Studio
- AIM Films
- Based
- Los Angeles · CDMX
- Project
- Aurora · 2026
"I did not want to make another alien invasion film. I wanted to make an Arctic film with the aurora as a character. A film where the monsters arrive the way weather arrives. Where the hero is not saving the world, she is inheriting a promise her great-grandmother made to keep the sky closed. The work is old. The tools are new. That is the whole idea."
Signed · Pakko De La Torre · AIM Films · 2026
04 · The worldThree rules
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The Shard
The weapon was buried by people who understood, and forgotten by people who did not. It is not a firearm. It is a reliquary that happens to be able to kill.
03
The Hunter
Nauja is nineteen. She was not chosen. She was next. The story is about what she does with the difference.
05 · Story beatsTwelve · Three acts
The shape of the film, before a single foot of it is shot.
- Act I00:00
01. The white line
Cold open. A single black horse crosses a bone-white plain at dusk. No music. Just the horse.
- Act I04:15
02. The elder's warning
Inside a hunting camp lit only by seal-oil lamps, Nauja's grandmother tells her the story of the sky-seam. Nauja does not believe it. She is being polite.
- Act I11:40
03. The first tear
A hairline of impossible green splits the aurora above the ice. Something reaches through. A dog goes silent and does not return.
- Act II22:10
04. The beam
Riding at night, Nauja is caught in a column of pale blue light from above. It reads her. She reads back.
- Act II34:00
05. The thing in the fog
A silhouette the size of a mountain moves through the whiteout. The film treats it as weather, not creature.
- Act II48:20
06. The permafrost
Nauja and the elder dig into a place that was never marked on any map. They find a hand-carved shaft with pale-blue conduction rings running its length. It hums when she touches it.
- Act II56:05
07. The teaching
The elder explains what the weapon is not. It is not a rifle. It is not a gift. It is a debt. Nauja does not understand yet.
- Act II1:04:30
08. The chase
The monster finds them. A twelve-minute pursuit across the tundra, camera locked to the horse, snow thrown vertically by the hooves. The rider does not look back until she has to.
- Act III1:22:00
09. The silence
The weapon fires. There is no sound. The film holds on Nauja's face for eleven seconds while the ice around her decides what happens next.
- Act III1:29:40
10. The closing
The tear in the sky is not sealed. It is convinced. Nauja is what convinced it.
- Act III1:36:10
11. The inheritance
The elder hands Nauja a small knife she has not seen before. The knife is older than the weapon. The story goes on without her.
- Act III1:41:00
12. The white line
The final shot mirrors the first. Same plain. Same dusk. The horse is the same horse. The rider is not.
06 · Character dossiersTwo people · one object
The hunter
Nauja
Wanted a quiet life. Got a cosmic one.
·19 years old, fourth-generation hunter
·Left-handed, trained on both sides
·Speaks Inuktitut at home, English on the radio
Caribou-hide parka aged three winters. Bone-carved amulet at the throat that was her mother's. No visible cosmetics — the light does the work.
The elder
Aana
Kept the promise for sixty years. Is tired.
·Grandmother by blood, elder by vote
·Only living person who has seen the tear before
·Knows the weapon by touch, not by sight
Layered wool and worn seal-skin. A single Star Wanderer bead braided into her hair. The camera never shows both of her hands at once.
The weapon as character
The Shard
Refuses to be understood as a firearm.
·Hand-carved shaft, pale-blue conduction rings
·Hums at 41Hz when a rightful hand touches it
·Has no visible mechanism — the mechanism is the bearer
Reliquary object. Wrapped in oiled hide when not in frame. Shot like a religious artifact, never like a prop.
07 · Visual grammarSix rules · from the trailer
Wide · 24mm
The land is the antagonist first. Establish it before anyone speaks.
Close · 85mm handheld
The camera is a passenger on the horse, not a witness on the ground.
Wide · 35mm anamorphic
Never centre the tear. It is a peripheral event, always.
Low · 21mm
The visitors do not appear. Their light does. That is enough.
Very wide · 18mm
The monster is scale, not shape. Never show a full silhouette.
Profile · 50mm
The last look is not triumphant. It is the look of someone who now has a job.
08 · Sound & score
The film is scored by the ice, not over it.
Two engineered silences. One live throat-singing motif. No non-diegetic ambience anywhere on the tundra. When the weapon fires, the audience learns what dry sound means.
- Score
- Sub-bass drone tuned to the aurora's electromagnetic signature. Live throat-singing on top, unprocessed.
- Silence
- Two engineered silences. The elder's warning. The moment the weapon fires. Both are 100% dry.
- Diegetic
- Hooves on packed snow, seal-oil lamps, wind. No non-diegetic ambience anywhere on the ice.
- Voice
- Inuktitut first, English second. No dubbing. Subtitles carved not typeset.
08.5 · Sound biblePress play · original cues
The film already sounds like a film.
Every cue below is a real, generated pass from the AURORA sound bible — score, weapon Foley, monster roar, tear ambience. Built to lock to picture. Ships as stems with the concept package.
SCORE
AURORA · Main theme
Sub-bass drone, live throat-singing, taiko pulse, hammered brass. Builds from silence to horseback-chase climax.
SFX
The chase · Hooves & wind
Thundering gallop on packed snow, close-perspective breath, snow spray, arctic wind.
SFX
The Shard · Fire cue
41Hz crystalline hum → sub-bass blast → engineered dry silence tail.
SFX
The 900-foot roar
Colossal dimensional bellow, cracking glaciers, sub-bass shockwave.
SFX
The tear · Ambience
Crystalline shimmer, ethereal alien whisper, low ominous drone.
09 · Prompt archiveFrom the director's notebook
The trailer was built inside AIM PREVIZ. These are the actual generation prompts behind three of its hero beats — kept raw, unedited, and cinematographic in intent.
Beat · The chase
Verbatim
The camera stays macro close up steady behind on an old bearded Inuit rider face as he turns behind looking worried behind him and he races swiftly on a galloping dark brown horse across a vast Alaskan snowfield. The handheld camera dynamically follows and rotates while zooming in on his face consistently while snow swirls vigorously under his horse's thundering hooves. It's 8:45 pm at night. There's a UFO flying above nearby, and shines a bright beam at him. He's trying to evade a gigantic, huge angry roaring 900 enormous foot tall monster keeps on chasing him from behind almost stomping on him with its large foot near him.
Beat · The first tear
Verbatim
Wide anamorphic frame, high Arctic dusk. A hairline of impossible teal-green light splits the aurora horizontally along the top third of the frame. Foreground: black horse silhouettes against bone-white tundra. The tear does not glow. It reads as a seam. A single sled dog stops, refuses to move forward. Camera is completely still. Ambient wind only.
Beat · The weapon
Verbatim
Extreme close macro on a hand-carved bone shaft with pale-blue conduction rings running its full length. The rings pulse at 41Hz. Torchlight from below, no ambient sky light. The object is unwrapped from oiled seal-hide by weathered hands. Shot like a religious artifact, not a hero prop. No lens flare, no glow.
10 · Production statusQ3 · 2026
Where the film is right now.
- Trailer
- Locked · 1:10 · AIM PREVIZ
- Script
- Beat outline complete · full draft Q4 2026
- Look
- Palette locked · 12 hero stills approved
- Cast
- Nauja: open casting · Inuk-led priority
- Territory
- Nunavut shoot · Yukon second unit
- Partners
- Open · seeking co-development · festival submission Q1 2027