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Custodio, the tiger of the east

Directed by:

Jorge Acevedo Carrasco

Produced by:

Mixie Araya Soler

Production Company

Yareta Films - Queltehue Films

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  • Year

    2025

  • Format

    Editing

  • Length

    90 min

  • Country

    Chile

Synopsis

Custodio, a young Chilean cowboy and self-taught musician decides to leave the town where he lives to fulfill his life’s dream; become a real musician and play in Mexico. The desire to give a song of his authorship to the Northern Tigers band will be the impulse that finally leads him to undertake this important journey.

  • Jorge

    Acevedo Carrasco

    Director

    Filmmaker with more than 15 years of experience in sound for film and television. He founded Queltehue Films in 2013, participating in documentaries such as ‘Searching A New Earth’ for the BBC. In 2016 he began his incursion as an audiovisual director with the short film Silvia.

  • Mixie

    Araya Soler

    Producer

    Filmmaker, his debut film is the documentary “La Clausura del Desierto”, in 2019 she was in charge of the Film Commission of the Antofagasta region, in parallel she premiered the children’s series “Perrocuento”. She was for 3 years Producer of the Antofacine Festival.