It was Pedro Aguilera who filmed our very first “film.”
This  was back in the days of our little golden cans, and Pedro came to the Santa Ana Estate one weekend, camera in hand…

At that time, everything was just starting off: La Cultivada was taking its first baby steps.
We had such a good time filming, but what stayed with me most were the brilliant stories of cinema and youth my father told us while driving us around — he was our  elite chauffeur, and entertained us not only with his jokes but also with his country wisdom.

He studied agricultural engineering in Madrid, and had some fun on the side as a film extra. If memory serves me well, he actually  appeared in Doctor Zhivago and The Fall of the Roman Empire…

But that wasn’t his only link to cinema. He had many artist friends, one of whom was the filmmaker and humorist Manolo Summers.
Together they lived some surreal adventures in the Madrid of the ’60s, cruising around in the hearse that Manolo hired for his films, the height of irreverence that youth can conjure up.

Pedro Aguilera has since forged ahead, unstoppable in his remarkable career in independent cinema, garnering success after success. He is now about to premiere his fifth feature film, a remake of Saura’s La Caza called Días de Caza, with Rossy de Palma in the cast.

Going back to our humble “film,” the voiceover was undertaken by María Ballesteros, actress and super-fan of La Cultivada, who deliciously recited our Poem for Breakfast.

 I write about the story behind that very poem not so long ago; a poem written to describe and define the qualities of a fine extra virgin olive oil.

Would you like to see our film debut? Just click here.

Elena Vecino (fundadora de La Cultivada). Read all my CULTIVATED STORIES.