Synopsis

Hijos is built around the passage of time, with images and sounds that embody a memory that ranges from the historical to the intimate, using cinema as a way of capturing time, and as a way of evoking childhood memories that show the desolation left by the military dictatorship in Chile society and its scars today.

• Francisco

  López Balló

  Director

  Francisco López Ballo was born in Santiago, Chile in 1973. He studied audiovisual communication in Chile. He directed music videos for local singers. In 1997, he traveled to Paris, France to study film at FEMIS. “The Machine Gun Woman” is his first feature documentary, in co-production with France.

• Francia

  Aranda

  Producer

  Francia Aranda, journalist and film producer, has produced films such as «»Neruda,»» the documentary series «»Manos,»» and the documentaries «»Mosca»» and «»Redoles: 50 Years of Cabaret.»» She is currently preparing the premiere of the documentary «»El camino de Roberto.»»

• Lise

  Bouzidi

  Producer

  Lise Bouzidi Vega. Producer at the Tierra y Libertad para Arauco Association (France). In the 1970s, she worked at Les Films du Nidal (France), participating as a screenwriter and editor on the film «»Les Ambassadeurs»» by Nacer Ktari. Activist for the defense of Mapuche political prisoners in Chile.

• Ballover Films

  Chiledoc Company

  Ballover Films SPA is an independent film production company with experience in co-producing short and feature-length documentaries and fiction films, including educational web series. We are also distributors of independent documentary films in Chile. Our main thematic areas are memory, science, the environment, and the ancestral cultures of indigenous peoples in Chile.