MIAMI, United States. – The movie plantedby the filmmakers Lilo and Camilo Vilaplana, had several screenings this Friday in different movie theaters in Miami-Dade County.
The film, which won the Audience Award for fiction films in the recently completed edition of the Miami Film Festivalwas released to the public at the Dolphin Mall and at the Silverspot Cinema – Downtown Miami.
According to Lilo Vilaplana himself, today’s performances are due to the wide demand that the film has had among different audiences.
plantedwhich gives continuity to the film planted, is a historical drama that collects the story of more than a thousand women who supported the first opponents of Fidel Castro’s regime. However, Vilaplana has insisted that it should not be seen as a second part plantedbut as “a different movie.”
Shot in Miami last year, the film has in its cast Alina Robert, Claudia Toma, Rachel Vallori, Yuliet Cruz, Ariel Texidó, Daniel Romero, among others.
The production of the film was possible thanks to the contribution of businessmen, companies, politicians and people who decided to support the work of Lilo and Camilo Vilaplana.
Although it is a fictional feature film, planted It is based on real events, since the stories of its characters were recreated from the stories of the surviving political prisoners of Castroism.
“There are three characters who lead the central line: a union leader, a university student, and a guerrilla who fought first in Escambray against (Fulgencio) Batista and then against Castro,” Lilo Vilaplana commented in an interview offered to the EFE Agency in December of last year.
planted It tells, among others, the story of the political prisoner Zoila Águila Almeida, known as “La niña del Escambray” for rising up in that area of the country against the Castro dictatorship.
