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Los Últimos Seis

DOCUMENTARY SHORT · 23:41 · 2004

Synopsis

Made by eighth-to-eleventh-grade students of Colegio Isaac Rabin between April and October 2004, filmed at the old Palo Seco leprosarium in Veracruz, Panama, a few years before it closed.

Of the six patients with Hansen's disease still living at the Palo Seco hospital, three, Rosa Fuentes, Ruth Thompson and Ricardo Thompson, generously gave us interviews. The other three did not take part, for personal or health reasons: Juan de León, Calixto Frías and Robustiano Ruiz.

Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still
Los Últimos Seis, still

PALO SECO · PHOTOGRAPHS

Shooting at Palo Seco, 1 July 2004
Shooting at Palo Seco, 1 July 2004
Tomás Cortés shooting, 2004
Tomás Cortés shooting, 2004
Corridor of the leprosarium, 2004
Corridor of the leprosarium, 2004
Empty ward, 2004
Empty ward, 2004
Lockers, 2004
Lockers, 2004
The chapel, 2004
The chapel, 2004
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
The city across the bay, 2010
The city across the bay, 2010
The chapel, 2010
The chapel, 2010
Common ward, 2010
Common ward, 2010
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
The wheelchair with Ricardo Thompson's name on it, 2010
The wheelchair with Ricardo Thompson's name on it, 2010
Portraits on the dresser, 2010
Portraits on the dresser, 2010
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph
Los Últimos Seis, behind-the-scenes photograph

MILESTONES

  • 01Best short film in its category · 2nd Ibero-American Short Film Festival «Imágenes Jóvenes en la Diversidad Cultural» · Fundación Kine, Argentina · 2005
  • 02Honourable mention for the screenplay · same festival
  • 03Official selection · ATEI Ibero-American Festival, Spain's Educational Television · broadcast by satellite across Latin America and Spain
  • 04Invited to FIDMarseille, France · 2005
  • 05Broadcast on Canal 11, Panama, and screened in the Film Appreciation Course at Cines Alhambra
  • 06Best editing and best camera · school competition it was made for