Trivia / Bolívar, el Héroe

• Creator Backlash: Initially averted, since the director of the film, Guillermo Rincón, defended it in its early years, but over time, he ended up totally disowning it, thus playing it straight.
• Dear Negative Reader: Nixon Aguilera and Diego Zajec, the movie's producers and actual directors, replied to forum posts bashing the movie by rather condescendingly telling people that they should try making their own movies before saying anything.
• Development Hell: The movie apparently took 4 years to make because of the inexperience the entire crew had with making an animated movie.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: This infamous Colombian film was lost for a long time, to the point that it was thought that the existence of the film was a hoax to ridicule Colombia. However, its existence was verified when YouTube user A. Ariza uploaded the film in December 2015, and while the channel was terminated, it has been mirrored since. Nonetheless, the version with the original Colombian voice actors is still lost.
• Money, Dear Boy: Both Aguilera and Zajec basically admitted that they made the movie purely to make money to make more movies and had basically zero artistic integrity behind it.
• My Real Daddy: The basic premise was thought up by Guillermo Rincón, but everything else was done by Nixon Aguilera and Diego Zahec. Most people usually think of it as Guillermo Rincón's work because he bought the rights to it.
• Same Language Dub: Bizarrely enough, there's a Mexican dub of the movie voiced by very well-known voice actors, despite the movie never being shown or broadcasted there. Unlike with the movie and the original Colombian dialogue, the Mexican voice acting is considered by many as much better. Even more bizarrely, the narrator in the Mexican dub is the same one used in the original Colombian version (Luis Carlos Zabala).
• Short Run in Peru: Reportedly, the movie was actually shown in Japanese theaters for an extremely limited time. One can only imagine the reaction the very few Japanese moviegoers had when seeing it.
• Stillborn Franchise: The ending seemingly suggests that they were planning on making a sequel covering the latter half of Simon Bolivar’s life but because of the movie’s abysmal critical reception that never came to be.

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