The Gran Canaria artist Koset Quintana has accused the film director Armando Ravelo of having incited him to have sex and offering him drugs and porn when she was 14 years old, facts that the filmmaker has acknowledged to EFE, although he denies that they can be considered sexual violence.

The multidisciplinary creator has been encouraged to make this public complaint after reading, in recent days, “the testimonies hidden for so long against Carlos Vermut”director and screenwriter from Madrid, winner of the San Sebastián Golden Shell with ‘Magical Girl’ (2014), who has been accused of subjecting them to sexual violence between May 2014 and February 2022, a film student, an employee of one of his productions and a worker in the cultural sector.

Regarding Ravelo, Quintana, who met him in 2014 at a film workshop, remembers that he has been subsidized by the Government of the Canary Islands and He claims to know “much more serious testimonies” than the one she has highlighted on the aforementioned social network, where she shows screenshots of telephone conversations held with the filmmaker.

The Gran Canarian creator assures in her publication that she believes she “speaks on behalf of many” when she states that “We are very tired of there being so many men in high places using their power to rape, harass and manipulate others” and emphasizes that in this case “it is once again a film director.”

In statements to EFE, Armando Ravelo, who was 31 years old in 2014, explained this Monday that At that time “he was very high and believed himself unpunished”which, together with a manifest sex addiction, which he claims to have overcome after going to therapy, led him to “do a lot of harm to many women” with whom he had “long-lasting relationships.”

For this reason, the Gran Canarian filmmaker, who accepts that after the complaint of Quintana “will not be able to work in cinema in the Canary Islands again”understands that now “many people have joined the bandwagon” of the creator’s complaint “because she has left many bodies along the way.”

In addition to emphasizing that when he met her in person thought Koset Quintana was “adult”so he believed that she was joking with him when she told him that she was a minor, Ravelo denies having exercised sexual violence on her, or any physical contact of that nature, but “reprehensible” behavior that she understands should be reported.

What’s more, it encourages everyone who has suffered a situation like this to do the same, although he asks “not to put everyone, or all situations, in the same bag.”

The filmmaker emphasizes that the therapy he has undergone in recent years has helped him “take control of his life and improve,” to the point of being able to have “beautiful relationships” with the women around him, hence that she now chooses to face with “honesty” the consequences of complaints such as that of Quintana, to which those of other women have been added on Instagram, who claim to have been mistreated by Ravelo, and for which she has received numerous supports.