Anayansi Prado was born in Panama. She’s an award-winning documentary filmmaker who served as a film expert for the American Documentary Showcase in Angola last year. Her debut documentary Maid in America (2005) about Latina domestic workers in Los Angeles, CA was screened nationally on Independent Lens (PBS). Her second film, Children in No Man’s Land (2008) about unaccompanied minors crossing the US/Mexico border has screened in more than 30 countries around the world and was part of the American Documentary Showcase. The film Paraiso for Sale (2011), which explores the growing phenomenon of American retirees migrating to Panama, was broadcast nationally on PBS. Anayansi also developed and taught documentary production workshops in Myanmar/Burma (2010) and Paraguay (2011) funded by The State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. She is the founder of Impacto Films and the co-founder and executive director of the Impacto Project, a non-profit committed to the empowerment of youths in third world countries through hands-on training in photography, film and digital media.

All those interested in this lecture, that will be held in Hotel Park in Široki Brijeg on 10th of October 2012 at 12:00h, can contact the direction of Mediterranean Film Festival at: phone 039/704 631 or e-mail address topic@mff.ba.