Carolina Borrero
Director · Producer
A Panamanian filmmaker and one of the founders of Cine Animal, she works at the crossing of art, science and education. Trained in film directing at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, she moves between fiction and documentary, on projects that connect audiences with the natural and cultural heritage of Panama.
Her work includes the chapter «1913» of Historias del Canal (2014), the documentary Los Cuentos del Bosque (2019), the series of educational micro-films Matusagaratí (2021–2025) and Isla Escudo de Veraguas (2022). Her experience as a children's film educator and as a curator of audiovisual heritage led her to conceive films that work like seeds: cultural objects designed to germinate in the collective imagination.
La Selva Llama, her first feature documentary, brings together her commitment to making audiovisual tools that inspire future generations to recognise their place inside the forest.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Jungle CallingHer first feature documentary, and the tool she wanted to make: one that gets future generations to recognise their place inside the forest.Director · in post-production
Los Cuentos del BosqueA group of children walks into the forest guided by a naturalist, who tells them the story of the delicate balance that weaves life in Panama.Writer & director
Todo cuenta. La LeoneraThe story of La Leonera, the information, learning and culture centre that Fundación Casa Santa Ana is opening for the children of the neighbourhood.Written, directed & shot by
The Sorcerer: Julio ZachrissonWinner of the IDA Documentary Award 2025 and of the Audience Award at IFF Panama.Executive producer
MatusagaratíA series of educational micro-films about the largest wetland in Panama.Director
Isla Escudo de VeraguasAn island in the Caribbean of Panama, and the species that live nowhere else.Director
Historias del Canal · «1913»One of the five chapters of the Panamanian feature that tells a century of the Canal through the people who lived it.Director of the chapter
Stars at NoonThe film adaptation of the Denis Johnson novel of the same name, shot in Panama.Second assistant director
LAB de Arte y CienciaA web series on the meeting point of art and science, the ground her work has not left since.Director
SimbiosisDirector
CaspaDirector
Falling in ArtsDirectorEDUCATION
The same Buenos Aires school that trained Tomás, founded in 1991 by the director Manuel Antín.
The development programme of the Ibero-American fund, where a project stops being an idea and starts being a film.
Where the educator's side of her work comes from: films made to be watched with children, not at them.
Film as a tool outside the cinema, which is the thread that also runs through her curatorial and teaching work.