Panama Canal Stories
Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal. Men, women and children who are influenced by the existence of the "Canal", the event that changed the history of not only a country but the world.
Alejandro Fadel
Martín Mauregui
Manuel Rodríguez
Abner Benaim
Carolina Borrero
Luis Franco Brantley
Pinky Mon
Pituka Ortega-Heilbron
Casts & Crew
Lakisha May
Andre Morris
Charlie Goldstein
Kathleen Wise
Hannah Schöbitz
Luis Manuel Barrios
José Angel Murillo
Meredith Carley
Henry Twohy
Earl Patrick Watson
Mayra Hurley
Isabel Burgos
Larry Diaz
Keith Furones
Valeria Brown
Yaxneira López
Adrián Benedetti
William McNamara
Marlon Jackman
Leo Wiznitzer
Natalie Harris
Kendall McKella
Daniel Tomas
Jairo Cabrera
Charlie Henriquez
Matías Vidal
Alexis Saavedra
John Wickinson
Blas Peña
Walter Dosso
Manuel Cedeño
Adhair Ponce
Luca Armerante
Jonathan Arosemena
Rafael Moreno
Luis Arteaga
Christopher Finnegan
Mercedes Ochoa
Anthony Loew
Also Directed by Abner Benaim
This hilarious comedy tells the story of Toña and Paquita, the housekeepers for the aristocratic González-Dubois family. These domestic employees have been mistreated for quite some time and they are tired of their situation. So when the family plans a shopping trip to Miami, the maids have a plan of their own; to take control of the mansion. Unexpectedly, they will also discover a family secret.
Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house bleeding.
Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name portrays one of Latin America's most beloved singer-songwriters in a journey across his 50-year career. In an intimate way, the film gives us a chance to get to know the artist, his music, and the stories behind them.
INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how a people remember, transform, and often forget their past in order to re-define their identity and become who they are today.
Also Directed by Luis Franco Brantley
The stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from going out to fight, of a fisherman going through a thousand adventures trying to bury his compadre, of an imprisoned American businessman for conspiring as a CIA agent against the dictatorship and an alcoholic prostitute who cannot escape her past ... all in the middle of the Christmas preparations, just as the US invasion of Panama begins.
Also Directed by Pituka Ortega-Heilbron
A documentary detailing the relationship of the Panamanian people and Roberto Duran