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Thursday 13th March 2025.
March 13, 2025
We have Dr computer with us talking tech in the 8’oclock hour this morning. In the last hour today we talk about the movie “Hijo de Tigre y Mula” which premiere’s in all theaters in the country today.
According to Canavaggio, “Today few Panamanians question the fact that we own a territory previously occupied by the United States. No one is surprised to see how a small country managed to bring the giant to its knees to sign a fair Treaty for Panama. That is the story I want to tell, the story of the negotiations behind the signing of the Torrijos Carter Treaties. Grandparents and parents should take their grandchildren and children to see the film so as not to lose this part of the story, to know why we should defend what is and always was our”.
The international team that participated in the production with director Canavagio is made up of producer María Neyla Santamaría, screenwriter and post producer Vicente Ferraz, dsound and music designer and direct sound Richard Córdoba and the director of photography and camera Carlos Arango.
The production tells the story behind the negotiations that changed Panama’s destiny and ended nearly 100 years of colonialism, revealing the most intense moments of diplomatic discussions between the United States and Panama that culminated in the return of the Canal.
The great elements of the film come from unpublished archival material, in different formats, from the National Archives, television stations in the United States, GECU films, and invaluable material from the Omar Torrijos Foundation. Additionally, account includes images and archival documents from newspapers, newscasts and reports from the time that transport us to the years of negotiations and show us the emotions and interests at stake during one of the most decisive moments of the negotiation.
For the director, this work is very important in this global context and at a time when the United States questions the Canal’s membership in Panama. The purpose is for young people to know the story of how an area that has always belonged to Panama was recovered and that was usurped through a treaty that no Panamanian signed. This film was possible thanks to contributions from the Panama Film Fund, GECU, DICINE, the Omar Torrijos Foundation and Ibermedia.