Low Tide

Loupe’s first fully independent feature, “Low Tide” was shot over twenty-six days in a working fishing harbor on the Northern California coast, largely with the cooperation of the town’s actual harbor patrol. The film follows Del Ashworth, a patrol officer nearing retirement, as a routine winter storm surfaces wreckage that reopens an eleven-year-old missing-persons case she was never allowed to close.

The cinematography leans on the harbor’s own practical light — sodium-vapor dock lamps, boat running lights, the diffuse grey of Pacific overcast — rather than supplementary rigging, which shaped both the shooting schedule (tide-dependent, largely nights and dawns) and the color grade (a desaturated teal-grey base with the sodium practicals held warm through every night exterior, so the one consistent color note in the film is the color of the town’s own dock lighting).

“Low Tide” premiered at a regional festival and is currently seeking distribution.

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