Corporate & anniversary documentaries in Panama

Cine Animal, an independent production company in Panama City, founded in 2014. Behind it is a long run of artistic, human and institutional work, with cultural institutions, companies and foundations that have trusted us with their story. The same house makes its own cinema.

Between ten and twenty minutes, depending on the complexity and depth of the story, on the archive material and on what there is to tell. Once the whole story is covered, we cut adaptations and shorter versions for different media and purposes.

An archive is not only photographs. It is documents, letters, messages, and also intangible heritage: testimonies, people, places. We help catalogue personal and company archives, with an archival or an empirical approach depending on what each case needs, and we accompany the work of preserving that memory.

Earlier than you think. The shoot is the smallest part: what takes time is opening the boxes of archive, restoring what turns up and earning the trust of the people who will tell the story. The Canopy Family film was shot in 2024 and premiered in July 2025.

The voices that lived the story. Before the camera comes on we create a safe space for listening, so each story can unfold from its human side, with sensitivity. We make these films because the stories move us, and we tell them to move whoever receives them.

We do not publish rate cards: each film is scoped to the needs and the ambitions of the client. It depends on the size of the story, on the archive and on the objectives. Write to hola@cineanimal.com with the anniversary date and the basics, and a producer replies within 24 hours.