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PARAISO FOR SALE
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Anayansi Prado, Panama / 2011 / 73 min / HDCam / English w/Spanish subtitles & Spanish w/English subtitles What price would you pay for paradise? And who would you be willing to take it from? The pristine archipelago of Bocas del Toro, Panama at tracts retirees and developers from the U.S. with its crystalclear waters and its island culture. In PARAISO FOR SALE, filmmaker, Anayansi Prado, returns to her homeland to document the effects the fastgrowing migration is having on the local community.
Paweł Wendorff Poland / 2010 / 87 min / Polish w/English subtitles The film is a surreal collage of interrelated threads revolving around the history of thirty year old Kuba who, with his parents’ encouragement, decides to take his first job. Though none too convinced, he starts work as a delivery man. Having set out on his first delivery soon after he witnesses a traffic accident. He ends up giving a statement at the police station. And his plans begin to unravel. By a twist of fate Kuba has no idea about the significance of the part he will have to play on this particular day. Scriptwriters: Paweł Wendorff, Piotr Chrzan / Director of photography: Paweł Wendorff / Production Designer: Wojciech Żogała / Costume Designer: Małgorzata Zacharska / Sound: Piotr Knop / Music: Zygmunt Konieczny / Editing Cezary Kowalczuk / Principal Cast: Wojciech Pszoniak, Piotr Adamczyk, Jan Frycz, Jacek Braciak, Bartosz Turzyński, Sławomir Orzechowski, Tomasz Sapryk, Kinga Preis, Leslaw Żurek, Krzysztof Globisz, Andrzej Mastalerz / Contact: AnimaPol Sp. z o.o., ul. Lakowa 29, 90554 Lodz, POLAND, tel./fax: 0 48 42 661 97 05, info@animapol.pl www.animapol.pl THE DIRECTOR: Director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and producer. Graduate of the Cinematography Department at the Łódź Film School (1990). Worked as director of photography on dozens of documentaries, a number of TV plays and ten feature films. Directed the independent feature Madmen (Szaleńcy, 2005) screened at numerous film festivals in Poland and abroad. Odd One Out is his first full length feature as a director. What is "Odd One Out" about? The answer is simple: you get what you see. If we could answer this question using words, there would be no point in making this film. Filmmakers are supposed to show "heroes in action" in the most honest way. And such attitude makes them willing to admit that human behavior is still a mystery to them. But they have to prove with their film that this mystery is so intriguing that trying to solve it is an interesting enough occupation. And there is only one way to prove it - entertain the viewers with their attempts to solve that mystery. Paweł Wendorff
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This engaging and revealing documentary tells the personal stories of the people who call this area home and would like to keep it that way. From an American couple who’ve invested not just in their home but in their Panamanian community to a local businessman turned political hopeful and an indigenous leader fighting for his land, the characters and stories in PARAISO FOR SALE speak to the larger global issue of communities, new and old, under siege from faceless corporations. PARAISO FOR SALE explores issues of modern day colonialism, residential tourism, global gentrification and reverse migration, by revealing that immigration between Latin America and the US is not just a oneway street. Producer: Anayansi Prado / Cinematographer: Victor Mares / Editor: Esteban Arguello / Consulting Producer: Lyn Goldfarb / Original score: Robert F. Trucios / Music: Ruben Blades / Supervising Editor: Tom Miller / Additional Editing: Carla Gutierrez / Additional Cinematography: Hilda Mercado, Anayansi Prado / Contact: Anayansi Prado impactofilms@hotmail.com, 3232517787.
THE DIRECTOR: Anayansi Prado was born in Panama and moved to the United States as a teenager. Her debut documentary Maid in America about Latina domestic workers in Los Angeles, CA screened nationally on PBS series Independent Lens. Her second production, Children in No Man’s Land about unaccompanied minors crossing the US/Mexico border is part of the State Department’s American Documentary Showcase and it’s been screened in more than 30 countries around the world. Paraiso for Sale is her third independent production. Anayansi is a recepient of a Rockefeller Media Fellowship and has received funding from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Creative Capital, ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, The Pacific Pioneer Fund, The Paul Robeson Media Fund, The Fledgling Foundation and Chicken and Egg Pictures. As of recently, she received grants from the Cultural Program Division of the State Department to teach documentary filmmaking in Burma and Paraguay. Ms. Prado is the founder of Impacto Films and the nonprofit Impacto Project. She holds a BA in Film from Boston University. Anayansi resides in Los Angeles, California. During my visits prior to filming, I got to network with a number of expats on Boca. The couple in the film was not my first choice. My original couple was from Utah and they had also invested their life savings into land with the plan of building a house in Boca. But as their house was being built, a developer told them that he had the title to the land and they spent the remainder of their money fighting him in court. Then, they simply ran out of money. So the house wasn’t finished and they moved back to the U.S. Their story was extremely complex and heartbreaking. That is when I met the couple you see in the film, whose story is similar in the land and title issues, but their house was already completed. It was a pleasure getting to know them and they honestly wanted to help the community. They were very sad to leave Boca. Anayansi Prado
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