Hayah International Short Film Festival
The Hayah International Short Film Festival is the oldest short film festival in Central America that lets both international and national talent participate. Their mission is to showcase the best short films each year while helping local filmmakers learn more about the international industry.
Panama’s Low Budget Film Festival (Festival de Cine Pobre Panalandia)
All people, either individually or collectively, grouped in communities or neighborhoods, need to express themselves, tell their stories and be heard. They look for complicity to share dreams, truths and everything that matters to them.Panama’s Low Budget Film Festival is a film festival that was born to be eyes and ears of all this fusion of expressions; a festival that wants to be an ally of stories that should not remain hidden, that gives a voice to those who do not have it. Making the invisible visible, because it reveals memories from all over the country and stories that represent us all. It is a festival made with love, courage and much desire.
RedCrea Panama
RedCrea Panama is a network of Audiovisual Creators from Panama. An organization established since 2015 with the objective to support the development, growth, protection, diffusion and promotion of #PanamanianFilm and the members of its industry.
Panama International Animated Film Festival (Panama Animation)
Panama International Animated Film Festivalis the first International Film Festival that fosters animation in Panama, Central America and the Caribbean. This festival is a talent showcase that encourages new film works. Panama Animation creates an arena for the local animation cinema and international productions in an event that highlights new talent training, education and networking with international scope. In a country like Panama, this kind of events expand the present potential while strengthens the chances to create cinema in effective and profitable ways. Panama Animation promotes values such as collaboration, participation and cooperation, also the cinema is an important part of the Orange Economy at global extent.
ACAMPADOC International Documentary Film Festival
ACAMPADOCis the only festival in Central America that links training, creation and promotion of the documentary genre with heritage rescue, to benefit communities lacking cinema screens. ACAMPADOC IDFF is proud of being Panama’s first film festival specialized in documentaries. Each year ACAMPADOC creates an active and supportive environment that involves the local and international community around contemporary documentary: a perfect place to start connections, develop documentary projects, promote entertainment and collective reflection. The festival’s educational program includes a Residence for Ibero-American feature film projects and a Short Film Camp for proposals by new filmmakers. Winners are eligible for being included at #CINEALRESCATE a non-profit network for distribution, promotion and exhibition that works all year round building audiences for Panamanian and international documentaries.
Reto Microcine by ANIMAL
ANIMAL is a filmmakers’ collective and a production company based in Panama City. Since their foundation in 2014, Cine Animal has dedicated their work to tell stories that capture the essence of people and the situations that surround them, aiming to develop a sense of belonging and position Panama as the cultural center of the region. As one of the top independent film production companies in Panama, Cine Animal has worked with dozens of artists, foundations and brands, creating relevant and award-winning projects with first-rate quality at low cost. Reto Microcine is a short film competition where filmmakers create projects with specific themes, ideas or characters and then showcase them at a cultural, musical and networking event.
BannabáFest – Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos
The International Human Rights Film Festival of Panama, BannabáFest, arose because of a personal experience of its director, Édgar Soberón Torchia, at a homologous film festival in Bolivia, where he noticed the positive effect of the audiovisual when It addressed human rights issues. BannabáFest responds to the need to spread a cinema that shines a light on the people who want to live beyond their personal interests. A sometimes cheerful, sometimes painful cinema, BannabáFest screens stories that are a rebellion against moral rules and laws that keep us behind, always in the framework of a community world. The International Human Rights Film Festival of Panama is for everyone: it’s for Panama and for the entire world.
Photolab Panama
Photolab Panama was born in 2018 with the intention of developing and boosting the
collaboration between professional photographers and new talents, seeking for the growth of the discipline and raising awareness of its main actors – both in Panama and around the globe. Since its beginnings, Photolab Panama has aimed to recognize the important role that photography plays in our society and how it can be a part of the Art’s & Culture scene to improve the way people interact with their surroundings and other human beings.
The festival’s mission is to identify new talents in the Photography field. Photolab Panama also wants to open a window that will allow photographers to showcase their work and establish creative and educational alliances with other peers. Photolab Panama also encourages the technical and professional growth of photography artists in all their expressions through spaces of artistic exchange.
Click here to learn more about the formal signing event, called “Panafest en Panama”.