Moved from its usual December berth last year, the 12th Panama International Film Festival (Iff Panama) runs April 4-7, replete with new industry activities and double the number of films since its previous edition.
True to its mandate to serve as a showcase for Central American and Caribbean cinema, the festival’s program this year includes a bevy of acclaimed films from the region, including two Panamanian Indigenous-themed features, “Bila Burba” and “God is a Woman.”
Recent years has seen the growing international recognition of pics from the region, with Nelson Carlo de los Santos becoming the first Dominican – and first Latin American – filmmaker to snag the best director Silver Bear at the Berlinale for his drama, “Pepe.”
Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ sophomore feature, “Memories of a Burning Body,” clinched the Audience Award for best fiction film in the Panorama section of the A-list German festival.
Both are screening at Iff Panama.
True to its mandate to serve as a showcase for Central American and Caribbean cinema, the festival’s program this year includes a bevy of acclaimed films from the region, including two Panamanian Indigenous-themed features, “Bila Burba” and “God is a Woman.”
Recent years has seen the growing international recognition of pics from the region, with Nelson Carlo de los Santos becoming the first Dominican – and first Latin American – filmmaker to snag the best director Silver Bear at the Berlinale for his drama, “Pepe.”
Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi Furniss’ sophomore feature, “Memories of a Burning Body,” clinched the Audience Award for best fiction film in the Panorama section of the A-list German festival.
Both are screening at Iff Panama.
- 4/3/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Mas que hermanos (Beyond Brotherhood), is the story of two siblings who end up living in the streets after the unexpected death of their parents. This story of the life of sister and brother, Mia and Joshua Bedi and their fight to survive takes many twists and turns before coming full circle to its unexpected turn of hope in the end. As the author of their story comes to his finale, one understands how life has so much to offer, in spite of its trials and tribulations.
Watch the trailer here.
Offering wonderful views of Panama, its coast, Cinta Costera and Casco Antiguo, the original old town, much the same as its 17th century original (and a Unesco World Heritage Site) this film will make you want to visit there.
The writer-director, Arianne M. Benedetti, has a long association with the city of her birth and knows how to show...
Watch the trailer here.
Offering wonderful views of Panama, its coast, Cinta Costera and Casco Antiguo, the original old town, much the same as its 17th century original (and a Unesco World Heritage Site) this film will make you want to visit there.
The writer-director, Arianne M. Benedetti, has a long association with the city of her birth and knows how to show...
- 12/7/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
With its third edition, which concluded on Wednesday, the Panama International Film Festival continued the year-on-year growth that is turning it into one of the region’s most important showcases for Ibero-American cinema.
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
“Having all these filmmakers in one place has been extraordinary,” says festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron. “Meets has added to this great vibe around the city. And Premios Platino could have been in so many other locations, in any other week of the year, so we were very honoured that it was here. It all underlines the festival’s growing significance.”
Synergy would seem to be the byword for the emergence...
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
“Having all these filmmakers in one place has been extraordinary,” says festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron. “Meets has added to this great vibe around the city. And Premios Platino could have been in so many other locations, in any other week of the year, so we were very honoured that it was here. It all underlines the festival’s growing significance.”
Synergy would seem to be the byword for the emergence...
- 4/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
With its third edition, which concluded on Wednesday, the Panama International Film Festival continued the year-on-year growth that is turning it into one of the region’s most important showcases for Ibero-American cinema.
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
“Having all these filmmakers in one place has been extraordinary,” says festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron. “Meets has added to this great vibe around the city. And Premios Platino could have been in so many other locations, in any other week of the year, so we were very honoured that it was here. It all underlines the festival’s growing significance.”
Synergy would seem to be the byword for the emergence...
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
“Having all these filmmakers in one place has been extraordinary,” says festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron. “Meets has added to this great vibe around the city. And Premios Platino could have been in so many other locations, in any other week of the year, so we were very honoured that it was here. It all underlines the festival’s growing significance.”
Synergy would seem to be the byword for the emergence...
- 4/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
With its third edition, which concluded on Wednesday, the Panama International Film Festival continued the year-on-year growth that is turning it into one of the region’s most important showcases for Ibero-American cinema.
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
A Mexican project, The Darkness, won the Meets cash prize of $25,000. The same day, the Dream About the City team learned they had won the film commission’s top production grant of $750,000, around half of their projected $1.5m budget.
Theirs was one of 14 projects to receive grants totalling $22m. Both Invasion and Breaking the Wave [pictured] received production money last year.
“This enables us to complete the path we’ve started out on...
For the first time this year, the festival played host to Meets, a film market aimed at fostering networks for co-production, sales and distribution of Latin American projects. Panama City was also chosen by Egeda and Fipca as the venue for their first Premios Platino awards, also during the week of the festival.
A Mexican project, The Darkness, won the Meets cash prize of $25,000. The same day, the Dream About the City team learned they had won the film commission’s top production grant of $750,000, around half of their projected $1.5m budget.
Theirs was one of 14 projects to receive grants totalling $22m. Both Invasion and Breaking the Wave [pictured] received production money last year.
“This enables us to complete the path we’ve started out on...
- 4/10/2014
- ScreenDaily
The Ibero-American film industry will get its own award ceremony starting in 2014.
The first Platinum Iberoamerican Film Awards (Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano) will be held on April 5 2014 in Panama City and honour the best films from 22 Latin American and European countries.
The announcement of the awards for films from territories in Europe and America where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken was made on December 4 at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires.
Promoted by Fipca, the Iberoamerican Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers, and Egeda, the management association of audiovisual producers’ rights founded in Spain, the awards have been created to recognise the cinema of the region.
It is estimated that 900 Ibero-American productions have reached the theatres in their countries this year.
“The awards will help us to put our cinema in the context of the industry,” said Fipca vice-president Ignacio Rey (pictured in centre). “This is an initiative to make our films cross boundaries between...
The first Platinum Iberoamerican Film Awards (Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano) will be held on April 5 2014 in Panama City and honour the best films from 22 Latin American and European countries.
The announcement of the awards for films from territories in Europe and America where Spanish and Portuguese are spoken was made on December 4 at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires.
Promoted by Fipca, the Iberoamerican Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers, and Egeda, the management association of audiovisual producers’ rights founded in Spain, the awards have been created to recognise the cinema of the region.
It is estimated that 900 Ibero-American productions have reached the theatres in their countries this year.
“The awards will help us to put our cinema in the context of the industry,” said Fipca vice-president Ignacio Rey (pictured in centre). “This is an initiative to make our films cross boundaries between...
- 12/4/2013
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
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