Chiledoc Production Companies

An Idea of Family

Directed by:

Carlos Villegas Leiva

Produced by:

Dagoberto Flores Venegas, Catalina Espinoza Badillo and Julio Matos

Production Company

DiezCincuenta, Catarsis and Laboratorio Cisco

Contact:

  • Year

    2026

  • Length

    70 min

  • Country

    Brazil and Chile / On site

Synopsis

What starts as a true-crime tale about three women —one jailed under dictatorship, one who fled Brazil, and one who took her life— shifts when their nephew, now a father and the film’s director, steps in and questions his own story. Through archives and travel, he attempts to reunite his family as his children point toward another future.

  • Carlos

    Villegas Leiva

    Director

    Filmmaker graduated from the Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (CIC, Buenos Aires). He has directed the short films Todo lo demás (2016), Arreglos internos (2015), and is currently directing the feature documentary Tres Tristes Tías.

  • Catalina

    Espinoza Badillo

    Producer

    Producer from the University of Valparaíso. She has produced the short films «Retorno», «Renacer», and «Antes que baje el sol». She is currently the executive co-producer of the documentaries «Tres Tristes Tías» and «Una casa celeste».

  • Dagoberto

    Flores Venegas

    Producer

    Journalist from Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Master in Executive Production from ECAM, Madrid. He has produced the documentary short films Ciudad de Cartón and Caminando a paso firme. He is the executive co-producer of the feature documentary Tres Tristes Tías.

  • Julio

    Matos

    Coproducer

    BA in Sociology from Unicamp and MA in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths. Founder of the production company Laboratorio Cisco (BR). His first feature film, Cartas para Angola, participated in more than 30 festivals across 16 countries. He is a co-producer of the documentary Tres Tristes Tías.

  • DiezCincuenta

    Chiledoc Company

    Independent audiovisual production company founded in 2019 in Ñuble, Chile. It focuses on creative and auteur documentary cinema, exploring memory, identity, and territory through research, archives, and voices that expand the language of Latin American documentary film.

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