The story of Patricia Aguilar, a young woman from Elche, who was captured by a cult in Peru at the age of 16 in 2016, is now brought to the big screen with a documentary series. “548 Days: Captured by a Cult”You can see it on Disney+ on June 30 and premiere on May 26 at DocsBarcelona.
Inside DocumentsBarcelonaAn international documentary film festival, its directors Olmo Figueredo and José Ortuño and Disney+ vice president of original production Sofia Fábregas will make its world premiere.
This new mini-series produced by La Claqueta PC, responsible for TV series like “State Against Pablo Ibar” and movies like “Endless Trench”, ‘your will will be done‘ than a journalist vanessa lozano He was published about the case in 2020 and collected his first on-camera statement since Aguilar’s rescue.
He fell into the trap of a false guru.
Patricia Aguilar was 16 when she fell prey to the so-called guru. Felix Steven Manrique. They met through the internet while Patricia was searching for an answer to a question. sad family incident and they were in touch every day for two years.
When Patricia came of age, she took money from the family business and flew to Peru, where she was waiting for her. According to Manrique, Patricia one of the queens chosen to repopulate the world with her when the apocalypse comes. When Patricia arrived in Peru, she was met with a view very different from the paradise she had been promised.
Patricia’s purpose in telling her story warning about the risks of social networksas well as sensitizing dangers of coercive groups and cultsIn the statement they made, those responsible for this production so that no one else will experience the same thing.
Statements of his family and other victims
In addition, there are testimonies of his parents in the series, Alberto Aguilar and Rosa Poveda and her cousin Noelia Bru. Also in attendance were Luis Alfonso Capcha and Cristian Huarcaya, Two cops from Peru Maryorie García, one of the captured women, and her mother, Olinda Valverde, who are decisive in finding Patricia.
To document the story, the team relied on: access to court proceedings to videos and photos as well as multiple WhatsApp and Messenger conversations of the case, heroes. Scenes in Spain and Peru were also dramatized as both real-life and animated.
“548 days: captured by a cult” is Disney+’s second production, the first documentary series in Spain. “Amen. Francis answers”It was published last April.