Synopsis

“Three Sorrowful Aunts” is a documentary feature film that portrays the problems of a family through the stories of three aunts: one imprisoned during dictatorship, another who escaped from Brazil and the last one overwhelmed by depression who decides to commit suicide in the sea. Half truths, fragmented relationships and awkward silence that eventually motivate their nephew to make one last attempt to reunite his family.

Team

• Carlos

  Villegas Leiva

  Director

  Filmmaker from Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (Cinematographic Research Center CIC). He has worked in the areas of ​​photography, editing and audiovisual direction. He has directed the short films “Todo lo demá” (2016), the documentary “Arreglos internos” (2015) and currently the feature film documentary “Three Sorrowful Aunts”.

• Catalina

  Espinoza

  Producer

  Filmmaker from the University of Valparaíso. Diploma in Executive Production for Audiovisual and Musical Projects. She has directed various film projects including «Retorno» (Audiovisual Fund 2019) and «Renacer», which she also produced. She has experience as an executive, general and field producer in fiction and documentary short films. She is currently co-executive producer of “Three Sorrowful Auts”.

• Dagoberto

  Flores

  Producer

  Journalist from the Alberto Hurtado University, has earned degrees in Screenwriting from the Chilean Film School and Executive Production from the Catholic University of Chile. He has produced the fiction short films “Eso que a mí me falta” and “Pagando” and the short film documentaries “Alfarería Quinchamalí́ and Santa Cruz de Cuca” (Unesco 2021), “Chillán, land of survivors”, “Caminando a paso firme ” . He is co-executive producer of the feature film “Three Sorrowful Aunts”.

Technical Info

Año de producción: 2024
Formato: 4K
Duración: 105
País/es: Chile – Brasil – Argentina
Director/a: Carlos Villegas Leiva
Productor/a: Catalina Espinoza Badillo / Dagoberto Flores Venegas
Casa productora: DiezCincuenta
Página web: www.diezcincuenta.cl
Redes sociales: @diezcincuenta

Awards and Official Selections

To date, this project has been selected in production and writing consultancies at Talents Buenos Aires (2015), Lebu Film Festival (2019), Ñuble Film Festival (2020), Documenta Sur laboratory (2022), Laboratorio de Documentary Script – Artistas del Acero (2022), Fund for Strengthening Audiovisual Projects of the Audiovisual Fund (2022), selected to participate in DocMontevideo 2022 as part of the Chile Delegation, BiobioCine Meetings (2022).