Burning Daddy

Runtime: 80'

Expected release: September 2026

Production stage: Editing

Budget: €440,894 (65% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, Sales Agents / Distributors, Buyers, Gap Financing

Synopsis:

Camila and her family reconstruct the image of her swindler father through photographs, court records and memories fractured by his violence. A charismatic man who promised limitless success. When the fantasy crumbled, intimacy became fear and silence a way to endure. The film traces the dismantling of a father shaped by neoliberal illusion, and the fragile rebuilding of those who survived his fiction

Director’s Profile:

Tana Gilbert is a filmmaker graduated from the University of Chile with a Master’s degree in Documentary Cinema. Her work focuses on the representation of the domestic and the political, exploring family archives and the lives of women in Latin American contexts.
Her first feature film, Malqueridas (2023), received the Grand Prize for Best Film at the Critics’ Week of the Venice International Film Festival and has earned over 30 awards and 60 official selections at international festivals. Her short films — Rest, Zulema (2013), I’m Still Here (2017) and No Star (2022) — were screened and awarded at festivals such as Hot Docs, Chicago and the Valladolid International Film Week.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, within the research line in Cinema. Her work has established her as one of the new voices in contemporary Chilean cinema.

Producer’s Profile:

Paola Castillo Villagrán is a director and producer of award-winning documentaries, including Beyond My Grandfather Allende (Golden Eye Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2015), Malqueridas (Best Film, Venice International Critics’ Week, 2023), The Lifeguard, Cielo and Relentless Memory, among others. She has also directed Frontera, Genoveva and 74m².
She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Chilean Documentary Corporation (CCDoc) and Deputy Director of the Chiledoc sector brand, both non-profit organisations supporting the national and international distribution of Chilean documentaries. She has served as a jury member at film festivals, a mentor for documentary labs, and an evaluator for international funding programs.
She is a professor in the Film and TV programme at the University of Chile and in the Audiovisual Direction programme at the Catholic University.