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Unlike the filmmaker Lilo vilaplana, the Spanish-American businessman of Cuban origin and producer of PLANTING, Leopoldo Fernández PujalsHe said he was not worried about leaking on YouTube and various websites of his film about the political prison in Cuba.
“The film is pirated all over the world. This is not about me. What I want is for you to see the movie. I didn’t make the film to get rich, “he said in an interview Cubanet Fernández Pujals, founder of the Spanish multinational Telepizza.
“The story of the movie PLANTING it starts in 1996, “said the businessman, who also explained that the project” took a long time because we couldn’t find a suitable screenwriter. “
Fernández Pujals, born in 1947 in Havana, is his nephew Jose Pujals Mederos, one of the “planted” prisoners whose stories are told in the film directed by Vilaplana; hence their commitment to these testimonies.
Before accepting the final project, designed by Vilaplana and also the Cuban writer Angel SantiestebanFernández Pujals rejected the scenarios that “were either lies or did not want to scratch the cat.”
“They didn’t mean Castro was bad,” he said, citing one example: “One of the titles they once offered us was’Gentle men‘”.
The producer of the feature film, freed this month in Miami and Havana, was not worried about the persistent leakage of PLANTINGRather, he saw this as evidence of his impact.
According to Fernández Pujals, PLANTING It was one of his “pending subjects,” as his book puts it 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 know his “Cuban, Spanish roots”.
For his part, director Lilo Vilaplana regretted this week that his film was illegally released on YouTube. “It was terrible, a great commercial damage,” he said.
“We do not know what happened, how it happened. We still don’t know what happened. It was awful. They are reported Links and others enter. I don’t know why YouTube hasn’t already taken action, because the complaint was filed. It is an illegal act. It’s like going to a shoe store, picking up a pair of shoes and running away, “Vilaplana told the magazine. CyberCuba in the morning.
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