Habanero Film Sales Snaps Up Worldwide Rights to ‘The Panama Canal Treaties – Son of Tiger & Mule’ in Advance of its Screening at the Panama Int’l Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Anna Marie de la Fuente Rio de Janeiro-based Habanero Film Sales has snapped up the worldwide sales rights to “The Panama Canal Treaties – Son of Tiger & Mule” (“Hijo de Tigre y Mula”) in advance of its special screening at the Panama International Film Festival (IFF Panama).

The topical documentary has been doing gangbusters at the local box office since its theatrical release on March 13, now among the top four highest-grossing films in Panama. “We’re currently at number one, beating ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ and ‘Snow White,’ said its elated director, Annie Canavaggio (“Breaking the Wave”). “I was inspired to create this documentary after realizing that younger generations have come to take the Panama Canal for granted and are unaware of the challenges that were involved in reclaiming it from the U.S.,” she told Variety.

She tapped newsreels from the National Archives in Washington D.C. and the Carter Center, among other sources, she said, working closely with screenwriter and editing consultant Leyda Napoles and DP Carlos Arango. “Son of Tiger & Mule” centers on the protracted negotiations that led to the fateful day on December 31, 1999, when the United States officially returned control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Agreements.

Behind the historic signing lay a complex web of international diplomacy and intrigue, orchestrated by General Omar Torrijos Herrera.