Anayansi Prado

Born in Panama, Anayansi Prado moved to the United States as a teenager. Her debut documentary MAID IN AMERICA, about the lives of Latina immigrant women working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, screened nationally on the PBS Independent Lens series in Fall 2005.

Recently, she served as executive producer for the Discovery en Espanol series Voces de Cambio about humanitarian issues of the Latino community living in the United States. Anayansi is also finishing her second independent project, the documentary Children in No Man’s Land about Mexican children who cross the border alone to be reunited with their parents in the US.

A recipient of a Rockefeller Media fellowship, Anayansi has received support for her work from foundations such as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Funding Exchange, Ford Foundation, Fledgling Foundation, Chicken and Egg Productions and Pacific Pioneer Fund.

Anayansi is currently in research and development of her next documentary project, Give Us Your Retired, Your Rich, Your Americans about the emigration of American retirees to Panama, which is being supported by ITVS.

In 2000, Prado founded Impacto Films, a production company dedicated to social issues. She received her BA in Film from Boston University.
(10/07)

Maid in America
A film by Anayansi Prado, Produced by Kevin Leadingham, 2004, 57 min., Color
They clean other people’s homes and raise other families’ children—often leaving their own families behind. MAID IN AMERICA is an intimate look into t...