© Lilo Vilaplana
Lilo Vilaplana (Nuevitas, Camagüey, 1961): writer, screenwriter, and film, theater, and television director.
Vilaplana is Cuban-Colombian but currently resides in Miami. He is the director of many programs made for children and adults. He became very known when he directed the Colombian series El capo (2009-2014). He has been a direction, acting, production, staging, and editing professor in Cuba, Colombia, and the United States.
Lilo Vilaplana started in the world of televisión in Cuba as a direction assistant in the children’s program Dando vueltas. Afterward, he became the screenwriter and director of the program. In 1997 he moved to Colombia and started working for FOX Telecolombia.
Vilaplana was remarkably successful with the series Perseguidos in México, his first production after Fox Telecolombia. The series was produced for the national free-to-air televisión network Imagen Televisión in 2016, together with Estudios TeleMéxico.
He was the director of many plays in Colombia. He also directed childrens plays like El extraño caso de los espectadores que asesinaron a los títeres in 2009. He has continued his theatrical career in Miami with numerous productions presented in the Spanish Cultural Center.
Vilaplana is also the author of published stories in several anthologies in Spain, the Dominican Republic, and the USA.
Filmography
1991-1997: Dando vueltas (Programa infantil semanal)
1997: Siguiendo el rastro (Largometraje para TV)
1999: Tabú (Serie de TV) (153 episodios)
2002-2003: Unidad investigativa (Serie de TV)
2003: Retratos (Serie de TV) (240 episodios)
2004: Me amarás bajo la lluvia (Serie de TV) (160 episodios)
2005: El pasado no perdona (Serie de TV) (150 episodios)
2006: Por Amor (Serie de TV) (145 episodios)
2007: Zona rosa (Serie de TV)
2008: Sin retorno (Serie de TV) (1 episodio)
2008: La Dama de Troya (Serie de TV) (240 episodios)
2009: Inversiones el ABC (Serie de TV) (100 episodios)
2009: Tiempo final 3 (Serie de TV) (1 episodio)
2010: Mentes en shock (Serie de TV) (3 episodios)
2012: Lynch (Serie de TV) (2 episodios)
2012: Agypnia (Cortometraje)
2011-2012: La mariposa (Serie de TV) (60 episodios)
2011-2012: La traicionera, AKA Conniving Renata (Serie de TV) (267 episodios)
2009-2014: El Capo (Serie de TV) (223 episodios)
2014: La muerte del gato (Cortometraje)
2014: Arrepentidos (Serie de TV)
2014: Un Sueño Llamado Salsa (Serie de TV) (90 episodios)
2015: Dueños del Paraíso (Serie de TV) (61 episodios)
2015: La casa vacía (Cortometraje)
2016-2017: El que la hace la paga, AKA Perseguidos (Serie de TV) (60 episodios)
2017: Leyendas del Exilio (Miniserie de TV) (2 episodios)
2017: Los ponedores (Cortometraje)
2018: The Man with the Golden Egg (Cortometraje)
2018: Telenovela cubana (Cortometraje)
2018: Irene en La Habana (Cortometraje)
2021: Plantados (Largometraje)
2021: El Caballo (Largometraje para TV)
2022: Plantadas (Largometraje en pre-producción)
Nominations and Awards
El infierno de Montoya (Arrepentidos)
- Emmy Award “Best Non-English Speaking Program”, USA, 2001
El Capo
- Best Director, India Catalina Award, Cartagena, Colombia, 2010
- Best Director, Diva Award, Panamá, 2010
La muerte del gato
- Best Latin American Short Award, Festival de cortometrajes del diario ABC, Madrid, Spain, 2014
La casa vacía
- Selected to Cannes International Film Festival, France), 2016
