The Happiest Guy in the World

Directed by Lance Oppenheim · Starring Mario Salcedo · 2018

A portrait of a man who has chosen to live permanently aboard Caribbean cruise ships, turning a holiday most people take for a week into an entire way of life.

A wry, quietly melancholy portrait of a man living an endless vacation that will make you question what happiness really is.

What kind of person takes a cruise not for a week or a month, but for the rest of his life? Meet Mario Salcedo, who says that nearly 20 years of nonstop cruise ship living have made him “The Happiest Guy in the World” —

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