Seven Panamanian film projects have been selected at Ibermedia 2023 call

At a meeting held at Campeche, Mexico, on 12 and 13 October 2023, the Intergovernmental Committee of the IBERMEDIA Programme to which Panama forms part through the National Cinema Directorate of the Ministry of Culture, selected projects to be supported at its 2023 call for assistance for the categories of co-development of film projects, co-production of long films (fiction, animation and documentary) and training.

The countries with most projects selected were Spain with 11, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay with 9 projects each, Argentina with 8, Guatemala, Italy and Panama with 7 projects each and Brazil, Chile, Portugal and Dominican Republic with 6 projects each.

The call 2023 of the Ibermedia Programme will support Panama with 250, 483.00 (two hundred and fifty-four hundred and eighty-three dollars), distributed between two projects in the category of co-development of film projects, one in the category of co-production of feature films and four in the category of Training:

Category - co-development of film projects

1. Corzo Culebra - Animal Cinema, S.A. and Capicúa SpA Chile

Work Type: Fiction

2. La Piedra de la Mocorro - Mente Publica Inc - Eraso Films, S. Micocoop España

Category - co-production

1. The Divided Earth - Contaploat Films S.A. - Whisky Content S.C. Mexico (Winner Fondo Cine 2020)

Category - Training

1. 11 ACAMPADOC Residency - INDICRI Panama Foundation
2. Creative production workshop for Central American and Caribbean film projects - Inocus Video Factory Cine & TV S.A.
3. Workshop on co-development of animation film projects - Panama Cinema Association (ASSOCINE)
4. Wawa Business Forum- KM Services

TheIbermedia ProgrammeThat's a background ofassistance and cooperation for Ibero-American cinemawith 23 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.