Seis dias en la oscuridad, also released as Six Days in the Dark, is a 2003 film written and directed by Gabriel Soriano and starring Ludwika Paleta, Dario T. pie and Gustavo Sánchez Parra.
The police go to the bookie Salmun, who tells them that Claudio was supposed to meet his partner Isaias Jennings to pay him 200,000 pesos he owes them the night he was kidnapped.
The voice over the telephone claims 2 million pesos as a ransom but the agent tells him that they are not in the position to pay such amount of money without a guarantee that Claudio is alive.
With $27,000 he decided to develop and shoot a movie with a working title called Still Life and set up a small project office in Mexico City.
After a chance encounter attending a seminar by the screenplay guru Syd Field, the director met Juan Pablo Cortes who joined the team as an Executive Producer.
Together Aaram Diaz as cinematographer also joined the project, with the rest of the crew formed of aspiring students from CCC and CUEC film schools.
The small budget entailed financial difficulties which meant that Director Gabriel Soriano had to sell his car to finish shooting.
[1] The original title of the project was Naturaleza Muerta but the distribution company changed it to Seis dias en la Oscuridad.
Tracks composed specifically for the film include "Hoy te extrañe" by Lino Nava and Marco Antonio Muñiz's cover of Luis Alcaras's classic "El dinero no es la Vida".