One of the core goals of IFF Panama when it was founded in 2012 was to provide a new window and international launch-pad for films from Panama and the rest of Central America and the Caribbean.
Last year the festival bowed a Primera Mirada pix-in-post sidebar, including a cash prize to help with post-production and a screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The initiative was immediately welcomed by the region’s filmmakers: They often have to work miracles just to get their shoots completed and desperately require post-production completion finance.