Geraldine fernández barranquilla

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron will premiere in Colombia on January 25. Ahead of that debut, the film is getting an unplanned and likely unappreciated marketing push, as a local woman has gone viral for convincing major media outlets that she drew around 25,000 frames for the film’s production.

Geraldine Fernández is a graphic designer at Tecnoglass, a Barranquilla, Colombia-based company that produces architectural glass and aluminum products. In a series of recent interviews, though, she convinced several major media that she was heavily involved in the production of Studio Ghibli’s latest film. Most of the stories corresponding with her claims have been removed by their publishers – which included outlets such as El Heraldo and El Tiempo – but some interview clips are being reuploaded on Youtube, like the one linked below.

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