The revisionist doc attempted to set the record straight about a period of film-making once dismissed at home as nothing more than crummy Hollywood knockoffs.
On January 16th the Zenú sent out members of their Indian guard, armed with ceremonial staffs, to check the hats being sold in coastal cities and confiscate the knockoffs.
A fine of up to $330,000 is to be imposed on anyone caught selling the prohibited hats, and police in major Caribbean cities were ordered to round up the knockoffs.
So, expect a bloodbath in pricing as dozens of low-cost Chinese assemblers crank out knockoffs galore for western retailers.
In Colombian wholesale markets, they now go for about $1.50 a piece; on the street they fetch around $5.50.Carlos Bellido, who sells the original vueltiao hats outside the posh Santa Clara hotel in Cartagena's colonial centre, says the Chinese knockoffs were flooding the market, and many people, especially tourists, opted for the cheaper version of the hats.
In 1978 she succeeded her mother as head of the company which had by then shrunk to only a single store and hired as her primary supplier the Italian businessman Patrizio Bertelli, a leather-goods manufacturer whom she had met the previous year at a trade fair where he was selling Fratelli Prada knockoffs.
The issue of how to spot those who play the system – plus those selling knockoffs, and reselling the work of others – exercises the community considerably.
The company was late to adopt digital cell-phone technology, and found itself struggling by 2000; the executives who had worried about Chinese knockoffs should have been worrying about advances at Nokia.
In her autobiography, "My Beloved World," Sotomayor explains that the firm's primary target was the growing wave of "cheap knockoffs of Fendi handbags".
You can buy Adidas sneakers and Italian shoes, along with local knockoffs like a brand of toothpaste called Crust.
Now he's made the kind of album that could earn him young fans who have no idea they've been listening to James knockoffs for decades.
