Félix «Trillo» Guardia
Director · Producer · Editor · Writer
Panamanian film director and musician, a graduate of the Film, Video and Digital Media programme at Towson University, Baltimore. His work explores audiovisual language, making moving images that come out of his own perception and give his projects an unusual directness.
El Brujo, his first feature as a director, premiered in April 2025 in his home country and won the Audience Award at IFF Panama. His second feature, Toro Volandero, an animated adventure based on Julio Zachrisson's universe, is due in 2027. In 2014 he co-founded the filmmakers' collective Cine Animal.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
The Sorcerer: Julio ZachrissonThe obsession of a young filmmaker with a painting he finds at his grandmother's house takes him to Madrid, in search of its author: Julio Zachrisson. Audience Award at IFF Panama 2025.Director & writer
Flying BullAn animated feature born from the etchings of Julio Zachrisson: surrealism, dark satire and psychological suspense.Co-director · in production
Enlaces · 15th AnniversaryFifteen years of Fundación Espacio Creativo's Enlaces Program, transforming the lives of children and adolescents through contemporary dance.Director & producer
Tropical Services · 50 yearsThe fiftieth anniversary film of Tropical Services, made to premiere at the anniversary and to keep telling the company's story afterwards.Director & editor
Panama BoundWynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra make an unexpected stop in Panama; this small documentary captures their stay.Director, camera, sound & editing
Un Chien Andalou en vivoAn open-air screening of the 1929 surrealist short, scored live by Full Monty.Live score with Full Monty