Last Ditch

(2026)

Near the end of the Mexican-American War, two hunted rogues hiding in an irrigation ditch must choose between freedom and risking their lives one last time to save a child from a brutal U.S. frontiersman.

From Writer/Director P. Antonio Márquez

Last Ditch is a tale told from the point of view of an irrigation ditch where our two war-weary protagonists are hidden. They aren’t soldiers. They’re farmers who fought, and right now they can’t use the ditch to water their fields, but maybe they can use it to survive. Based on the historical Taos Revolt that occurred in New Mexico during the Mexican-American War, Last Ditch is a story as yet untold on screen of Mexicano and Indigenous co-resistance against what we would now call war crimes. It’s a buddy comedy that turns into a harrowing thriller of violent consequences. This is history seemingly long past, but as I write this a new army is patrolling our country hunting primarily brown people. Being indigenous to the land doesn't matter if you don’t fit the image of the powers that be. This is a riveting and urgent tale whose parallels to our current world speak for themselves and ask what’s worth fighting and dying for.