Hispanic Film Festival 2017

The Modern and Classical Languages Department and Pragda Spanish Film Club are pleased to announce that they are bringing to campus the 2017 Hispanic Film Festival. This film series will present a wide range of award winning movies spanning different parts of Latin America to showcase identity and culture through migration.

Screening: Panama Canal Stories (2014) (Historias del Canal)

This impressive, sweeping historical drama chronicles five incredible stories of people who helped build the famous canal and Panama itself. Spanning a century, from 1913 to 2013, the film weaves together the tales of five remarkable characters: Clarice, a young Jamaican laborer forced to choose between love and survival during the Canal's construction; Jake, the son of an engineer who grows up in the "American zone" in 1950s Panama but who really wants to be with his Panamanian friends; José, a student caught up in the 1960s political unrest and his love for a pretty American girl, Lucy; Silverio, a chauffeur for visiting U.S. politicians who is hired to spy on them by local political activists in 1977; and Clarice Jones, a jazz singer in New York City, who discovers that her great-grandmother worked on the canal and decides to go to Panama to explore her roots.

Free