Panama, April 22, 2026. - The National Cinema Section of the Ministry of Culture currently develops in the region Guna Yala a community audiovisual training program called Mobile Microhistories - Traveling Stories. That activity is integrated into the project CINECultura presenta, an institutional initiative that aims to facilitate access to film creation tools in rural areas and territories with difficult access to the country.

The conduct of the workshop takes place at the Narganá Reg. from April 20 to 24. On this occasion, the call brings together 41 secondary level students, a group of 22 women and 19 men. The teaching process focuses on using cell phone as a primordial technical resource for the registration and construction of accounts based on local identity and the daily environment of the participants.

The academic program includes the phases of film production, from defining technical roles as direction, sound and art, to production of screenplay and visual planning guides. During the training period, young people conduct field shooting and end with the training of production and editing technologies using digital platforms.

The training cycle concludes with a sample of community cinema. The short films performed by the students with national productions benefitted by the Fondo Cine are presented in this space. The program includes works by filmmakers from the region, as is the case with production Bila Burba, with a view to establishing a direct link between local creators and new generations of storytellers.

That work will be concrete through collaboration between the Narganá Communal Board, the National Border Service, the Félix E. Oller High School and the Church of Jesus Christ of Last Day Saints. Also, the initiative has been supported by Wagua Films in the provision of educational materials and by the University Film Experimental Group, GECU, that provides technical facilitation of the educational process.

The project aims at enabling participants to gain technical skills to document their own realities and to achieve the aims of promoting and decentralizing national film culture.