John Rah Studios presents

Last
Light

A feature film from John Rah Studios

From creative director Stoka J Strickland

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About the Film

A film that grew up
with its makers

Last Light was never supposed to exist. No budget said yes. No studio said yes. Only a group of kids did — and they kept saying yes for six years.

Shot on borrowed time and saved-up change, Last Light follows the long hours after dark — when something old moves through a small town and a boy is forced to decide what he's willing to lose to protect the people he loves. It is a film about fear, friendship, and the strange light that shows up right before everything goes black.

Every frame was earned. Masks bought from clearance racks. Locations begged for. Costumes stitched and re-stitched. The crew aged from children into young adults while the film slowly became real around them. What you're watching isn't just a story — it's six years of someone's life, cut to ninety minutes.

Studio
John Rah Pictures
Creative Director
Stoka J Strickland
Years in production
Six
Budget
Lunch money
The witch stares into the camera, grey hair whipping in the wind under a storm-dark skyStill 01
The Witch — Exterior, Dusk
A figure walks away down a hallway lit deep red, framed photographs on the wallStill 02
The Hallway — Red
A boy raises a pistol with both hands in a pink-lit roomStill 03
The Decision — Interior, Night
A hooded figure wrapped in chains raises both arms against firelightStill 04
The Ritual — Firelight
Extreme close-up of the witch's yellow eye behind strands of hair, washed in magentaStill 05
The Stare — Close-up
A creature's open jaws in near darkness, teeth catching a thin blue lightStill 06
The Thing in the Dark

Production stills · frames from the finished film

The Story Behind Last Light

They started at eleven. They finished as filmmakers.
Year One

A camera, a backyard, an idea too big to say out loud

A group of eleven-year-olds — Reshav, JKD, Vedant, Stoka, Tusta, Subala, Mana, Prema, Kanai and their friends — decided they weren't going to make a video. They were going to make a movie. A real one. Nobody told them how. Nobody told them no, either, mostly because nobody believed they'd keep going.

Years Two – Three

Lunch money cinema

There was no budget, so they made one — quarters, saved allowances, skipped lunches. A single scene could take months: save for the mask, save for the fake blood, wait for a stormy enough sky. They learned lighting from streetlamps and sound from doing it wrong a hundred times. Scene by scene, a film began to exist.

Years Four – Five

Growing up on camera

Voices dropped. Faces changed. The cast was aging inside the footage, so the story bent to hold it — the film became about growing up because its makers couldn't stop doing it. Some friends moved away. The ones who stayed re-shot, re-cut, and refused to let six years of work die on a hard drive.

Year Six

Last light

The final scenes were shot the way the first ones were — with borrowed gear, stubborn friends, and whatever light was left in the day. The kids who started this film are seventeen now. The movie is finished. It's called Last Light, and it cost everything they had, which was never money.

Frame from Last Light — a boy raises a pistol in a pink-lit room

"We didn't know how to make a movie.
So we made one anyway."

The crew of Last Light

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Last Light

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Cast & Creators

Made by friends

No agents. No auditions. Just the people who showed up, year after year, until the film was done.

01
Stoka J Strickland
Creative Director
02
Reshav
Cast & Crew
03
JKD
Cast & Crew
04
Vedant
Cast & Crew
05
Tusta
Cast & Crew
06
Subala
Cast & Crew
07
Mana
Cast & Crew
08
Prema
Cast & Crew
09
Kanai
Cast & Crew

…and everyone who held a light, lent a yard, or believed early.