LAFF 2022: Panama Canal Stories

[Mario Boido]

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for the next screening of the Latin American Film Festival, Panama Canal Stories (Abner Benaim, Carolina Borrero, Luis Franco Brantley, Pinky Mon, Pituka Ortega-Heilbron / Panama / 2014 / 106 min). The film will be screened online on Wednesday, February 16, at 7pm. To register please visit https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KZx1TQG-SEmgztrVr3_P3g.

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About the film. This impressive, sweeping historical drama chronicles five incredible stories of people who helped build the famous canal and Panama itself. Spanning a century, from 1913 to 2013, the film weaves together the tales of five remarkable characters: Clarice, a young Jamaican laborer forced to choose between love and survival at the hands her American and British bosses during the Canal’s construction; Jake, the son of an engineer who grows up in the ‘American zone’ in 1950s Panama but who really wants to be with his Panamanian friends; José, a student caught up in the 1960s political unrest and his love for a pretty American girl, Lucy; Silverio, a chauffeur for visiting U.S. politicians who is hired to spy on them by local political activists in 1977; and Clarice Jones, a jazz singer in New York City who discovers that her great-grandmother worked on the canal and decides to go to Panama to explore her roots.


You can also stream Panama Canal Stories for free until Feb 20 from the Festival Portal. For access to the Portal and to learn more about the Festival visit:  https://uwaterloo.ca/spanish/3rd-annual-latin-american-film-festival-jan-19-mar-23


Best wishes,

Mario



Mario Boido, PhD (he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519.888.4567 ext 35621

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