ECAM Incubator Title ‘¿Es Usted Secuestrable?’ Plumbs Highjacking

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Anna Marie de la Fuente As one of five intriguing titles selected by the Madrid Film School’s ECAM Incubator, now on its sixth year, Charli Bujosa Cortés’ feature debut “¿Es usted secuestrable?” (“Are You Kidnappable?”) offers a hybrid of sorts.

He describes it as non-binary, just like him. Developed at Eurodoc, Mallorca Talents Lab and the Mentoring Project of L’Alternativa Desarrolla among others, the film turns on Bujosa Cortés’ eccentric aunt Carmen, who in 1977, was one of the hostages in a plane hijacking that criss-crossed the globe for almost three days.

In the event that made headlines around the world, Italian car mechanic Luciano Porcari hijacked the plane to the Ivory Coast to gain custody of his young daughter as well as a ransom.

He then forced the pilots to take him to Morocco but they ended up hop scotching to Seville, Zurich, Turin, Warsaw, and ultimately failed to reach Moscow where the self-confessed communist wanted to turn himself in. “Identity, belonging, subjectivity or one’s own memory seem to be my great songs as a creator,” says Bujosa Cortes. “My aunt Carmen, who knows me well, one day suggested that I make a film about one of her experiences, her top, probably most-told story: Her delirious and surreal letter of introduction, the time when, aged 24, she found herself stuck for almost three days on a hijacked plane and traveling halfway around the world.” Her Aunt Carmen always starts her story by saying, “I have to admit that I had a great time.” A retired family doctor, she is now 70 and lives happily ensconced in her house that resembles a vaulted cave or perhaps, the interior of a plane.