Los Frikis’ Star Eros Da La Puente Is on a Journey of a Lifetime

A new film that explores 90’s Cuba and its outlaw rock music scene is set to come out to critical acclaim. That film is called Los Frikis, after the name punks in Cuba gave themselves. 

Rising star of the acclaimed new film, Eros De La Puente, drops into the studio to chat with host Humberto Guida on the Checkitow Podcast, and he opens up about his life-changing journey out of Cuba and the culture-shock moments on and off-screen he had while filming.

Inspired by true events set against the backdrop of Cuba’s 1990s punk subculture, Los Frikis is a powerful coming-of-age story centering around Gustavo who idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk bandmates. As oppression and extreme poverty tighten their grip Cuba’s “special period,” the Frikis take a desperate and defiant stand, intentionally injecting themselves with HIV to gain refuge in a government-run sanatorium, where the inmates get much better treatment (and food) than they experience in their day-to-day life in Cuba. There, in a world meant for isolation, they carve out their own anarchic utopia—-an oasis of rock ‘n’ roll, joy, acceptance, and freedom. 

From the directors of The Peanut Butter Falcon and Academy Award-winning producer Phil Lord.  (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).

LOS FRIKIS follows the raw, unforgettable story of a group of punk rockers in 1990s Cuba (known as the “Frikis”) who inject themselves with HIV to gain refuge in government-run sanatoriums.

For more info visit https://www.losfrikismovie.com/.

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