2 | 20/03/2021 – 21:07 (GMT-4)
Unlike the director Lilo vilaplana, The Hispanic-American businessman of Cuban origin and producer of Planted, Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, Has assured that he is not worried about the leak on YouTube and several websites of his film about political prison in Cuba.
“They’re hacking the film all over the world. I don’t care about that. What I want is for them to see the film. I didn’t make the film to get rich,” he said in an interview with Cubanet Fernández Pujals, founder of the Spanish multinational Telepizza.
“The story of the film Planted it starts in 1996, ”said the entrepreneur, who further explained that the project“ took a while because we couldn’t find a suitable screenwriter ”.
Fernández Pujals, born in 1947 in Havana, is the nephew of José Pujals Mederos, One of the prisoners “planted” stories tells the film directed by Vilaplana; hence his commitment to these witnesses.
Before accepting the final project, conceived by Vilaplana and the Cuban writer angel Santiesteban, Fernández Pujals rejected scripts that “were either lies or did not want to put the bell on the cat.”
“They didn’t mean Castro was bad,” he pointed out, citing an example: “One of the titles they ever proposed to us was‘meek men‘”.
The producer of the feature film, released this month in Miami and Havana, he was not concerned about the persistent leakage of Planted, But rather considered this a proof of its repercussion.
According to Fernández Pujals, Planted it was one of his “pending subjects,” as his book explains Aim for the stars and you will reach the moon: Turn your dreams into successes, Published in 2014 and written, he commented, so that his descendants would know his “Cuban, Spanish roots”.
For his part, director Lilo Vilaplana has lamented this week that his film has been illegally released on YouTube. “It’s been terrible, great commercial damage,” he said.
“We don’t know what happened, how it leaked. We still don’t know what happened. It’s been terrible. links and others enter. I don’t know why YouTube hasn’t taken action already, because the complaint has been filed. It is an illegal act. It’s like going to a shoe store, grabbing a pair of shoes and running, “Vilaplana told the magazine. The mornings of CiberCuba.
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