20,000 Species Of Bees, the debut film by Basque filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, and Society Of The Snow, J. A. Bayona’s survival drama for Netflix, dominated the top honors at the eleventh Platino Awards Saturday evening.
The Mexican award show took place this year at the El Gran Tlachco theater in Xcaret Park, Riviera Maya. Bayona took best director on the night for Society Of The Snow. The film also won Best Feature while 20,000 Species Of Bees nabbed Best Screenplay and Best First Feature.
20,000 Species Of Bees debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, where lead actor Sofía Otero took the silver bear for best leading performance. The film is set during a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping and follows an eight-year-old and her mother experiencing revelations that will change their lives forever.
Bayona’s Society Of The Snow closed last year’s Venice Film Festival.
The Mexican award show took place this year at the El Gran Tlachco theater in Xcaret Park, Riviera Maya. Bayona took best director on the night for Society Of The Snow. The film also won Best Feature while 20,000 Species Of Bees nabbed Best Screenplay and Best First Feature.
20,000 Species Of Bees debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, where lead actor Sofía Otero took the silver bear for best leading performance. The film is set during a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping and follows an eight-year-old and her mother experiencing revelations that will change their lives forever.
Bayona’s Society Of The Snow closed last year’s Venice Film Festival.
- 4/21/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
In a triumphant night for Spain, J.A. Bayona’s Oscar-nominated “Society of the Snow” swept the top prizes at Platino Xcaret, named after the venue of the annual Platino Awards this year, which took place at the Xcaret Park, Riviera Maya, Mexico.
Argentina cinema’s plight, exacerbated by far-right president Javier Milei’s closure of its film institute, Incaa, was also on many people’s minds.
Citing veteran Argentine filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain as one of his inspirations, Bayona said upon receiving his best director award: “Argentina, we are here standing by your side, you’re not alone.”
Bayona’s harrowing account of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash, from which only 16 people survived after 72 days stranded in the Andes, became Netflix’s second most-viewed non-English film of all time. “I wouldn’t be here without the book that Pablo Vierci wrote,” said Bayona, who also thanked his cast and crew,...
Argentina cinema’s plight, exacerbated by far-right president Javier Milei’s closure of its film institute, Incaa, was also on many people’s minds.
Citing veteran Argentine filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain as one of his inspirations, Bayona said upon receiving his best director award: “Argentina, we are here standing by your side, you’re not alone.”
Bayona’s harrowing account of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash, from which only 16 people survived after 72 days stranded in the Andes, became Netflix’s second most-viewed non-English film of all time. “I wouldn’t be here without the book that Pablo Vierci wrote,” said Bayona, who also thanked his cast and crew,...
- 4/21/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: J.A. Bayona's "Society of the Snow" is an existential triumph, Jodie Comer delivers an unforgettable performance in "The End We Start From," and "Fallen Leaves" tells a timely love story amid war.)
The new year brings us the first installment of "Under the Radar" in 2024 and, with January having drawn to a close, it's worth looking back and taking stock of how no matter how much things change, the more things stay the same. You know how all our bright and optimistic New Year's resolutions are already aging like milk, despite our best intentions? Well, that's kind of like how Hollywood tends to approach the month of January -- except maybe without the "best intentions" part.
The new year brings us the first installment of "Under the Radar" in 2024 and, with January having drawn to a close, it's worth looking back and taking stock of how no matter how much things change, the more things stay the same. You know how all our bright and optimistic New Year's resolutions are already aging like milk, despite our best intentions? Well, that's kind of like how Hollywood tends to approach the month of January -- except maybe without the "best intentions" part.
- 2/5/2024
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
When Society of the Snow director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible; A Monster Calls) set out to tell the true story of notoriously horrific Andes plane crash, he wanted to give sensitive and authentic voice to the survivors and families of the dead. And to do that, the script needed to be in Spanish.
On Tuesday, following the film’s Oscar nomination in the Best International Feature Film category, Bayona told Deadline he believes young audiences have been influenced by the common use of subtitles on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, and are now much more willing to see them in a film.
“One thing that we are very surprised is the amount of young people who are embracing the film,” he said. “I think it’s actually the fact that they are more used to watching content with subtitles on the internet and on platforms, and also the...
On Tuesday, following the film’s Oscar nomination in the Best International Feature Film category, Bayona told Deadline he believes young audiences have been influenced by the common use of subtitles on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, and are now much more willing to see them in a film.
“One thing that we are very surprised is the amount of young people who are embracing the film,” he said. “I think it’s actually the fact that they are more used to watching content with subtitles on the internet and on platforms, and also the...
- 1/23/2024
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix might be known for pumping out a bewildering volume of "content," but the streaming service isn't just breathing new life into forgotten thrillers or showcasing terrible Spanish slashers. Often, amid the deluge of media, Netflix will serve up something decent, and "Society of the Snow" is the perfect example.
Spain's official 2024 Oscars submission for Best International Feature, "Society of the Snow" is the latest movie from "The Impossible" and "The Orphanage" director J.A. Bayona. Thus far, it seems to be the filmmaker's best effort, receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Non-English Language Film at this year's Golden Globes. Now, as of January 4, 2024, it's available to stream on Netflix ... though if you haven't yet watched, you might want to prime yourself for the harrowing story told within.
"Society of the Snow" is a thriller that follows the survivors of a plane crash as they try to stay alive...
Spain's official 2024 Oscars submission for Best International Feature, "Society of the Snow" is the latest movie from "The Impossible" and "The Orphanage" director J.A. Bayona. Thus far, it seems to be the filmmaker's best effort, receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for Best Non-English Language Film at this year's Golden Globes. Now, as of January 4, 2024, it's available to stream on Netflix ... though if you haven't yet watched, you might want to prime yourself for the harrowing story told within.
"Society of the Snow" is a thriller that follows the survivors of a plane crash as they try to stay alive...
- 1/12/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
The doomed flight of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 remains one of the most astonishing stories of real life survival horror the world has ever known. Often called “the Miracle in the Andes,” this harrowing tale begins with a plane crash that left 12 dead and 33 stranded among the snowy mountain peaks of Argentina. With only a week’s worth of food, those left alive after the first few days were forced to eat the bodies of their fallen companions to survive the brutal cold and inhospitable environment. With the world assuming them dead, Fernando ‘Nando’ Parrado, and Roberto Canessa eventually made a desperate trek through the treacherous mountain range with little more than clothing assembled from the wreckage and a homemade sleeping bag. 72 days after the initial disaster, sixteen survivors emerged from the mountains, dirty, starving, but determined to live.
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
- 1/12/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Netflix's latest movie is the epic drama "Society of the Snow," directed by J.A. Bayona. The Spanish-language drama is based on the Andes tragedy (also referred to as the Andes miracle) of 1972, wherein a charter plane carrying 45 people — including members of a Uruguayan rugby team — crashed in the Andes mountains, leaving the survivors stranded in an extremely harsh environment for 72 days. This is a story that has fascinated people around the world for decades, inspiring three movies, many documentaries, and serving as the inspiration for "Yellowjackets."
Most adaptations tend to focus on the more sensationalist aspect of the tale: cannibalism. The first feature film based on the tragedy was a Mexican exploitation movie, and arguably the most famous film is the American production "Alive," directed by Frank Marshall and featuring a whitewashed cast that included Ethan Hawke. That movie turned the story into an uplifting tale of survival, more...
Most adaptations tend to focus on the more sensationalist aspect of the tale: cannibalism. The first feature film based on the tragedy was a Mexican exploitation movie, and arguably the most famous film is the American production "Alive," directed by Frank Marshall and featuring a whitewashed cast that included Ethan Hawke. That movie turned the story into an uplifting tale of survival, more...
- 1/11/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Behind the scenes of Society of the Snow.
All images courtesy of Netflix
by Chad Kennerk
While researching and preparing to make his 2012 survival film The Impossible, filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona came across the book La sociedad de la nieve by journalist Pablo Vierci. Though the story of the 1972 Andes accident was a familiar one, Bayona had never seen the account contextualised in the same way. Uruguayan native Vierci’s book, written 36 years after the tragic events, benefitted from distance, looking beyond the facts to provide a psychological approach to the circumstances and how they shaped the survivors’ lives. After completing The Impossible, Bayona bought the rights to Vierci’s book and began a decade-long journey to bring the story to the screen.
Society of the Snow marks the writer/director’s first Spanish language film since his 2007 directorial debut The Orphanage (El orfanato). A ghost story of a different kind,...
All images courtesy of Netflix
by Chad Kennerk
While researching and preparing to make his 2012 survival film The Impossible, filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona came across the book La sociedad de la nieve by journalist Pablo Vierci. Though the story of the 1972 Andes accident was a familiar one, Bayona had never seen the account contextualised in the same way. Uruguayan native Vierci’s book, written 36 years after the tragic events, benefitted from distance, looking beyond the facts to provide a psychological approach to the circumstances and how they shaped the survivors’ lives. After completing The Impossible, Bayona bought the rights to Vierci’s book and began a decade-long journey to bring the story to the screen.
Society of the Snow marks the writer/director’s first Spanish language film since his 2007 directorial debut The Orphanage (El orfanato). A ghost story of a different kind,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Chad Kennerk
- Film Review Daily
Picture: Netflix
Premiering at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, Society of the Snow is Director J.A. Bayona’s take on the story of the infamous 1972 Uruguayan Air Force flight that crashed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes Mountains. Chartering a rugby team to Chile, only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash. Finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Based on the book “La Sociedad de la Nieve” by Pablo Vierci, the film utilizes Vierci’s strong ties to the remaining survivors of the crash, many of whom he knew from childhood. The filmmakers recorded more than 100 hours of interviews with all of the living survivors and the actors had access to them & their families as well.
With a reported budget of around 60-70 million, Bayona spared no expense to bring the highest level of authenticity to the project.
Premiering at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, Society of the Snow is Director J.A. Bayona’s take on the story of the infamous 1972 Uruguayan Air Force flight that crashed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes Mountains. Chartering a rugby team to Chile, only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash. Finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Based on the book “La Sociedad de la Nieve” by Pablo Vierci, the film utilizes Vierci’s strong ties to the remaining survivors of the crash, many of whom he knew from childhood. The filmmakers recorded more than 100 hours of interviews with all of the living survivors and the actors had access to them & their families as well.
With a reported budget of around 60-70 million, Bayona spared no expense to bring the highest level of authenticity to the project.
- 1/4/2024
- by Andrew Morgan
- Whats-on-Netflix
Image: Netflix
It’s shocking that the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 has inspired such lackluster adaptations of the harrowing affair, in which a rugby team and their friends and family are stranded in the snow-covered Andes mountains for 71 days. Survive!, a low-budget Mexican production from 1976, played up the...
It’s shocking that the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 has inspired such lackluster adaptations of the harrowing affair, in which a rugby team and their friends and family are stranded in the snow-covered Andes mountains for 71 days. Survive!, a low-budget Mexican production from 1976, played up the...
- 1/3/2024
- by Courtney Howard
- avclub.com
Clockwise from top: Society Of The Snow (Netflix), Good Grief (Netflix), Sixty Minutes (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
Netflix kicks off 2024 with some high-profile originals, fan favorites, and cinema classics. J.A. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow is based on the true story of the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and its 16 survivors.
Netflix kicks off 2024 with some high-profile originals, fan favorites, and cinema classics. J.A. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow is based on the true story of the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and its 16 survivors.
- 12/30/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
The lore of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which fell out of the sky and crashed into the South American Andes in 1972, typically summons grisly images of cannibalism and gangrene. The 72 days that a Uruguayan rugby team en route to Chile endured, snow-drifted and hungry, have been dramatized elsewhere, including the 1993 survival drama “Alive,” starring a mostly white and Anglicized cast. Now, after a moment under the tentpole sun with the ill-conceived “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona returns to the style of more personal and human disasters with “Society of the Snow.” Shot in Spanish with Uruguayan accents, this muscular and often brutal depiction is chiseled with authenticity, but it’s too psychologically schematic to make much in the way of an emotional impact.
That’s not to say Bayona and his team haven’t devised some seriously impressive filmmaking: “Society of the Snow” was filmed in Spain...
That’s not to say Bayona and his team haven’t devised some seriously impressive filmmaking: “Society of the Snow” was filmed in Spain...
- 12/21/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Ja Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay alive
The story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors who resorted to cannibalism, is powerfully retold in this movie from Spanish director Ja Bayona. It is based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci and not (or only indirectly) taken from Piers Paul Read’s pioneering 1974 classic Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which popularised the idea that their cannibalism had become a kind of mysterious secular Eucharist, eating the blood and body of one’s fellow human beings to stave off death, in a profound spirit of fellowship and love.
Perhaps no movie about this extraordinary case can quite encompass what in some ways is its most poignant part: the aftermath,...
The story of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes, and the ordeal of the survivors who resorted to cannibalism, is powerfully retold in this movie from Spanish director Ja Bayona. It is based on the book of the same name by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci and not (or only indirectly) taken from Piers Paul Read’s pioneering 1974 classic Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which popularised the idea that their cannibalism had become a kind of mysterious secular Eucharist, eating the blood and body of one’s fellow human beings to stave off death, in a profound spirit of fellowship and love.
Perhaps no movie about this extraordinary case can quite encompass what in some ways is its most poignant part: the aftermath,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and its survivors has inspired many books and movies, even the TV series Yellowjackets. With Society of the Snow, J.A. Bayona adapts Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name to make something that’s close to the reality of the experiences endured by those aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The aircraft was carrying 45 passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team, when it crashed in the Andes. Of those, only 16 would survive across an ordeal that lasted two months.
The crash itself is harrowingly portrayed at the start of the film, and with a minimum of buildup. The plane’s tail and wings are torn away on impact while the fuselage sails down the snowy mountainside like a sled. We catch flashes of the passengers’ limbs twisting and breaking, of metal shooting into flesh. The story moves quickly from there,...
The crash itself is harrowingly portrayed at the start of the film, and with a minimum of buildup. The plane’s tail and wings are torn away on impact while the fuselage sails down the snowy mountainside like a sled. We catch flashes of the passengers’ limbs twisting and breaking, of metal shooting into flesh. The story moves quickly from there,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Steven Scaife
- Slant Magazine
We made it to 2024! Or, rather, we've almost made it at the time of writing. It's been a long year wherein a historical dual strike that was prompted (and then unnecessarily prolonged) by studio greed brought the film and TV industry to a grinding halt for months. But all that's behind us now, and it's time for a fresh start. Even Netflix is turning over a new leaf by making viewership data available for just about every title on the platform. Well, sort of. It's still Netflix, so, of course, its newfound transparency comes with an asterisk or two.
Staying on the positive beat, things aren't slowing down on the Netflix front in January. In fact, after a 12-month period that saw the streamer releasing a veritable treasure trove of notable animated features, international films, and star-studded projects (be sure and peruse through the /Film team's ranking of the 12 best...
Staying on the positive beat, things aren't slowing down on the Netflix front in January. In fact, after a 12-month period that saw the streamer releasing a veritable treasure trove of notable animated features, international films, and star-studded projects (be sure and peruse through the /Film team's ranking of the 12 best...
- 12/16/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Society of the Snow, directed by Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona and Spain’s submission into the 2024 Oscar race, is based on the true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster in which a flight carrying Uruguay’s Old Christians Club rugby team for a match in Santiago, Chile, crashed on a glacier at the Valle de las Lágrimas (Valley of Tears).
Of the 45 people aboard Flight 571 only 16 survived, including Roberto Canessa, who joined producer Belén Atienza and Bayona to discuss the film for Deadline’s Contenders Film: International.
The Netflix movie is adapted from Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book La Sociedad de La Nieve [Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story], which gives it distance from previous books and films about the story.
“You can that tell in this new take you have the gravitas, the weight of the time that has passed,” said Bayona. “It’s a much more spiritual book which was a challenge; what made the...
Of the 45 people aboard Flight 571 only 16 survived, including Roberto Canessa, who joined producer Belén Atienza and Bayona to discuss the film for Deadline’s Contenders Film: International.
The Netflix movie is adapted from Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book La Sociedad de La Nieve [Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story], which gives it distance from previous books and films about the story.
“You can that tell in this new take you have the gravitas, the weight of the time that has passed,” said Bayona. “It’s a much more spiritual book which was a challenge; what made the...
- 12/9/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1972, a small passenger plane crashed into a mountain in the Andes, its tail and wings ripping off in the impact. When the fuselage came to rest on the snow, it contained 33 survivors, among them the young members of a Uruguayan rugby team. Over an unimaginable 72 days, they would contend with starvation, exposure, hypothermia and two avalanches, until only 16 remained alive. Ultimately, they were forced to make an agonizing choice: consume the bodies of the dead or die themselves. J.A. Bayona’s film Society of the Snow, based on Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name, takes a fresh look at the story, giving voice to both the dead and the living. Here, the Spanish filmmaker and the Uruguayan author discuss how they collaborated to tell a vital story of human will and sacrifice that would honor the real experience of the survivors and their dear departed friends.
Deadline: Pablo,...
Deadline: Pablo,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
What do moviegoers want to see right now? For decades, studios have had very specific answers to this question, but considering that 2023’s box office was dominated by two films called Barbie and Oppenheimer, it seems like those preconceived notions might be changing. When we look at the films already scheduled for 2024, there certainly seems to be a lot of familiarity that might be old hat.
But look again at a few of the auteur pieces that have already been slated. Even the blockbuster class looks surprisingly ambitious, with new works from the likes of George Miller, Denis Villeneuve, and Bong Joon-ho. There are also familiar favorites, such as a new Deadpool flick, and curious question marks–like Robert Eggers remaking the greatest vampire movie of all time more than a hundred years later. 2024 should be an interesting year at the movies. So here are a few to watch out for.
But look again at a few of the auteur pieces that have already been slated. Even the blockbuster class looks surprisingly ambitious, with new works from the likes of George Miller, Denis Villeneuve, and Bong Joon-ho. There are also familiar favorites, such as a new Deadpool flick, and curious question marks–like Robert Eggers remaking the greatest vampire movie of all time more than a hundred years later. 2024 should be an interesting year at the movies. So here are a few to watch out for.
- 12/8/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
“To go back home with my people to shoot a movie was fantastic,” says director J.A. Bayona, whose film “Society of the Snow” has been selected as Spain’s entry for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. “Every time I work in Hollywood I bring my people with me. It’s been a whole journey. I did my first movies in Spain, ‘The Orphanage,’ ‘The Impossible’ and ‘A Monster Calls.’ I established my voice. I wanted to show the world, ‘This is who I am.’ I moved to Hollywood. Then, doing this film after so many years, this is where I really like to be. I’m going back to my people. Being selected for the Oscars was extraordinary.”
We talked with Bayona as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2023/2024 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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We talked with Bayona as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2023/2024 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Watch interviews...
- 12/1/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
20,000 Species Of Bees, the debut film by Basque filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, and Society Of The Snow, J. A. Bayona’s survival drama for Netflix, have dominated the nominations at this year’s Goya Film Awards.
The nominations for Spain’s premiere film awards event were released this morning. 20,000 species of bees clocked 15 noms, including best film, screenplay, and best new director. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow clocked 13 noms, also landing in best film. Veteran Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice trails behind with 11 nominations for his comeback feature Close Your Eyes, starring Ana Torrent.
20,000 Species Of Bees debuted at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where lead actor Sofía Otero took the silver bear for best leading performance. The film is set during a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping and follows an eight-year-old and her mother experiencing revelations that will change their lives forever.
Bayona...
The nominations for Spain’s premiere film awards event were released this morning. 20,000 species of bees clocked 15 noms, including best film, screenplay, and best new director. Bayona’s Society Of The Snow clocked 13 noms, also landing in best film. Veteran Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice trails behind with 11 nominations for his comeback feature Close Your Eyes, starring Ana Torrent.
20,000 Species Of Bees debuted at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where lead actor Sofía Otero took the silver bear for best leading performance. The film is set during a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping and follows an eight-year-old and her mother experiencing revelations that will change their lives forever.
Bayona...
- 11/30/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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With Bayona working alongside Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego to adapt Pablo Vierci's eponymous book, Society Of The Snow follows what happened when in 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes.
Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one...
With Bayona working alongside Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego to adapt Pablo Vierci's eponymous book, Society Of The Snow follows what happened when in 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes.
Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one...
- 11/27/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Last month, the Netflix streaming service unveiled a teaser trailer for the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve, the latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Now a full trailer for the film has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above.
Society of the Snow will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive,...
Society of the Snow will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
From director J.A. Bayona, the visionary filmmaker behind The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, comes the Netflix survival thriller Society of the Snow, which is based on both true events and the same-titled book by Pablo Vierci.
Society of the Snow will premiere in select theaters on December 22, 2023, followed by the film’s Netflix arrival on January 4, 2024. Watch the brand new official trailer below.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte,...
Society of the Snow will premiere in select theaters on December 22, 2023, followed by the film’s Netflix arrival on January 4, 2024. Watch the brand new official trailer below.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte,...
- 11/27/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Director J.A. Bayona makes his screenwriting debut with Spanish film “Society of the Snow,” based on the devastating true story of an Uruguayan rugby team that was stranded in the wilderness for months after a harrowing plane crash. The story behind the plane crash was previously dramatized in Frank Marshall’s 1993 narrative feature “Alive,” which starred Ethan Hawke.
The Netflix film, which Spain has already chosen as its entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar, follows the passengers of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, who were on their way to Chile before crashing in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the initial accident; the survivors were then trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, and had to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast of Bayona’s film includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi,...
The Netflix film, which Spain has already chosen as its entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar, follows the passengers of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, who were on their way to Chile before crashing in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the initial accident; the survivors were then trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, and had to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast of Bayona’s film includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi,...
- 11/27/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
It was freezing cold. The altitude was 11,000 feet. There was the occasional avalanche. No cranes. No dollies. But by getting as close to the Andes’ Valley of Tears as possible, the site of the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team’s infamous crash, Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona (“The Impossible”), his producing partner Belén Atienza, and their cast and crew brought the dead back to life. Sixteen survivors walked away from that crash after 72 days. 42 died.
The Spanish entry for the Oscars, “The Society of the Snow”, is about the contract the living made: They offered their bodies to keep their friends alive after their deaths.
“The people in the plane, the people who went through that story, were offering their bodies to their friends, in case they need them,” said Bayona. “And in that idea, there is something transcendent because it’s this unconscious realization that you and I are the same thing.
The Spanish entry for the Oscars, “The Society of the Snow”, is about the contract the living made: They offered their bodies to keep their friends alive after their deaths.
“The people in the plane, the people who went through that story, were offering their bodies to their friends, in case they need them,” said Bayona. “And in that idea, there is something transcendent because it’s this unconscious realization that you and I are the same thing.
- 11/23/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including WSJ. Magazine‘s Innovator Awards and Halloween party highlights.
Nhmc Impact Awards Gala
The National Hispanic Media Coalition hosted its annual Impact Awards Gala on Oct. 27, honoring those making strides towards a positive portrayal of the Latine community, both in front of and behind the camera. Hosted by actress Francia Raisa and Mj Acosta-Ruiz, the event honored Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez, Miguel, Gina Torres, Jharrel Jerome and Ángel Manuel Soto.
Jharrel Jerome, Jessica Sarowitz, Gina Torres, Aarón Sanchez, Brenda Victoria Castillo, Julissa Prado, Miguel, Angel Manuel Soto, Eva Longoria and Eugenio Derbez
Montclair Film Festival Filmmaker Tribute event
Martin Scorsese sat down for a tribute conversation with Stephen Colbert on Oct. 27 at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the 2023 Montclair Film Festival.
Martin Scorsese and Stephen...
Nhmc Impact Awards Gala
The National Hispanic Media Coalition hosted its annual Impact Awards Gala on Oct. 27, honoring those making strides towards a positive portrayal of the Latine community, both in front of and behind the camera. Hosted by actress Francia Raisa and Mj Acosta-Ruiz, the event honored Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez, Miguel, Gina Torres, Jharrel Jerome and Ángel Manuel Soto.
Jharrel Jerome, Jessica Sarowitz, Gina Torres, Aarón Sanchez, Brenda Victoria Castillo, Julissa Prado, Miguel, Angel Manuel Soto, Eva Longoria and Eugenio Derbez
Montclair Film Festival Filmmaker Tribute event
Martin Scorsese sat down for a tribute conversation with Stephen Colbert on Oct. 27 at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the 2023 Montclair Film Festival.
Martin Scorsese and Stephen...
- 11/3/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix’s Society of the Snow recounts the harrowing true story of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes that killed 16 people on impact and left 29 passengers struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment. The second one-minute teaser shows the moments before the plane carrying Uruguay’s Old Christians Club rugby team crashed into the mountains.
Director J.A. Bayona co-wrote the screenplay with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego, based on the book by Pablo Vierci. Speaking with Netflix, Bayona described his path to making the film.
“I discovered the book while we were preparing The Impossible, and I immediately thought that I wanted to make it into a film,” said Bayona. “We put the project together over a period of more than 10 years, developing an approach to the story while working closely with Pablo Vierci.”
Society of the Snow is Spain’s Best International Film entry for the 2024 Academy...
Director J.A. Bayona co-wrote the screenplay with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego, based on the book by Pablo Vierci. Speaking with Netflix, Bayona described his path to making the film.
“I discovered the book while we were preparing The Impossible, and I immediately thought that I wanted to make it into a film,” said Bayona. “We put the project together over a period of more than 10 years, developing an approach to the story while working closely with Pablo Vierci.”
Society of the Snow is Spain’s Best International Film entry for the 2024 Academy...
- 10/20/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – is the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve. We’ve previously heard that the film will be streaming on the Netflix service as of January 4th and now, with just over two months to go until that date arrives, a trailer for it has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to...
An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to...
- 10/20/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
J.A. Bayona’s Netflix drama “Society of the Snow” recounts the tragic story of the 1972 Uruguayan airplane crash high in the snow-covered Andes, of which 29 of the original 45 passengers initially survived, stranded on a glacier 4,000 meters above sea level aptly named the Valley of Tears.
Survivors of the doomed flight, which carried a rugby team and their friends and family members from Montevideo to Santiago, managed to stay alive for two and a half months by consuming the flesh of the deceased.
While it’s not the first cinematic re-telling of the harrowing ordeal, Bayona’s take and his source material — the book of the same name by Uruguayan writer and journalist Pablo Vierci — ensured that it would be unique not only in its authenticity, but also in giving voice not just to those who survived, but also to those who perished.
“We always intended to make the most realistic...
Survivors of the doomed flight, which carried a rugby team and their friends and family members from Montevideo to Santiago, managed to stay alive for two and a half months by consuming the flesh of the deceased.
While it’s not the first cinematic re-telling of the harrowing ordeal, Bayona’s take and his source material — the book of the same name by Uruguayan writer and journalist Pablo Vierci — ensured that it would be unique not only in its authenticity, but also in giving voice not just to those who survived, but also to those who perished.
“We always intended to make the most realistic...
- 10/20/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has dropped a teaser for J.A. Bayona’s highly anticipated survival thriller “Society of the Snow,” which will represent Spain in the Oscars international feature film race. The film world premiered on closing night of the Venice Film Festival and is playing this week at the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon.
Based on Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book, “Society of the Snow” tells the true story of survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster who had to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is the first Netflix film to have been selected by the Spanish committee for the Oscars and marks Bayona’s second Oscar entry following “The Orphanage” in 2007.
The film will roll out in select theaters across Latin American on Dec. 14, as well as in Spain on Dec. 15 and in the U.S. and in the U.K. on Dec. 22. “Society of the Snow...
Based on Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book, “Society of the Snow” tells the true story of survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster who had to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is the first Netflix film to have been selected by the Spanish committee for the Oscars and marks Bayona’s second Oscar entry following “The Orphanage” in 2007.
The film will roll out in select theaters across Latin American on Dec. 14, as well as in Spain on Dec. 15 and in the U.S. and in the U.K. on Dec. 22. “Society of the Snow...
- 10/20/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish director J.A. Bayona talked about the long and arduous journey to bringing air crash survival drama Society of the Snow to fruition at Deadline Contenders London.
The immersive drama, which is Spain’s Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences of the 16 surviving members of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972.
“There is the question at the end of the trailer that says, ‘Who are we in the mountains?’ and basically to me the whole process of making this film was a process of trying to understand who they were in the mountains,” said Bayona.
The screenplay is adapted from the 2009 book The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci, who knew many of the people caught up in the tragedy.
Bayona said Vierci’s work had...
The immersive drama, which is Spain’s Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences of the 16 surviving members of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972.
“There is the question at the end of the trailer that says, ‘Who are we in the mountains?’ and basically to me the whole process of making this film was a process of trying to understand who they were in the mountains,” said Bayona.
The screenplay is adapted from the 2009 book The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci, who knew many of the people caught up in the tragedy.
Bayona said Vierci’s work had...
- 10/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest project from director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – is the Spanish-language survival thriller Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve. An adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci, the film is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive. That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive, which was based on Piers Paul Read’s book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. If you’re interested in seeing Bayona’s take on the story, you’ll be glad to hear that its release is just a few months away.
- 10/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Director J.A Bayona’s real-life-disaster Spanish film ‘Society of the Snow’, has been chosen as the Spanish pick for the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film. The decision comes less than two weeks after the film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Director J.A Bayona’s real-life-disaster Spanish film ‘Society of the Snow’, has been chosen as the Spanish pick for the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film. The decision comes less than two weeks after the film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
The director is best known for directing films such as ‘The Orphanage’ as well as the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’; and his most recent outing is about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster based on Pablo Vierci’s book.
This marks the second time that Bayona’s film has been selected by Spain for Oscar submission after this 2007 gothic horror film ‘The Orphanage’ which was also his last Spanish film. The film also marks the first time that a Netflix film has been selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
J.A. Bayona’s real-life disaster thriller Society of the Snow has been selected by Spain as it submission for the best international feature category at the 2024 Oscars.
The decision comes less than two weeks after the Netflix film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival.
Society of the Snow — about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book — becomes Bayona’s second time representing him home country for international feature award after his 2007 breakout The Orphanage, which was also his last film in Spanish.
It also becomes the first Netflix film selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race, with four wins — most recently in 2004 for The Sea Inside — from 20 nominations. Its last appearance in the category was in 2019, when Pedro Almodovar — who won in 1999 for All About My Mother — was nominated for Pain and Glory.
The decision comes less than two weeks after the Netflix film had its world premiere as the closing feature of the Venice Film Festival.
Society of the Snow — about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book — becomes Bayona’s second time representing him home country for international feature award after his 2007 breakout The Orphanage, which was also his last film in Spanish.
It also becomes the first Netflix film selected by Spain.
Spain has a solid track record in the Oscars international feature race, with four wins — most recently in 2004 for The Sea Inside — from 20 nominations. Its last appearance in the category was in 2019, when Pedro Almodovar — who won in 1999 for All About My Mother — was nominated for Pain and Glory.
- 9/20/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spain has selected J.A. Bayona’s latest film, Society of the Snow, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
The announcement marks the first time a Netflix-backed film has been selected by Spain and the second time J.A. Bayona has made the cut following his 2007 film The Orphanage.
Society of the Snow closed this year’s Venice Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, the film charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13, 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when the pilot began his descent too early, crashing into the Andes and killing 12 immediately. The survivors clung to the belief that help was coming,...
The announcement marks the first time a Netflix-backed film has been selected by Spain and the second time J.A. Bayona has made the cut following his 2007 film The Orphanage.
Society of the Snow closed this year’s Venice Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, the film charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13, 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when the pilot began his descent too early, crashing into the Andes and killing 12 immediately. The survivors clung to the belief that help was coming,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
"What happened to us? What happens when the world deserts you?" Another film I was lucky to watch on the big screen at the 2023 Venice Film Festival this year was the latest film by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona. It's called Society of the Snow, also known as La Sociedad de la Nieve in Spanish, adapted from the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. For his fifth feature, Bayona decided to head to South America to tell the famous story of the scary crash and survival of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. This is the same story told in the 1993 movie Alive, directed by Frank Marshall, which anyone who grew up in the 90s is absolutely familiar with for grotesque reasons. This is all a part of the story, a key part of the story, as it's a survival thriller. In the real world, their story became known as...
- 9/15/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 1972 disaster in which Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in a remote part of the Andes while carrying a rugby team, their friends and family members to a match in Chile has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries and two dramatic features — the 1976 Mexploitation quickie, Survive!, which fell short of its exclamation point; and Frank Marshall’s 1993 Hollywood version, Alive, a middling entry in Ethan Hawke’s early screen career.
While it’s a fictionalized, gender-switched reinvention only loosely inspired by Flight 571, Showtime’s Yellowjackets has paradoxically made a bigger cultural splash than either of those films, with its genre mashup of horror, mystery and mordant humor.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona, who established his disaster/survival movie bona fides with the tsunami thriller The Impossible, now weighs in with the Netflix feature, Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la Nieve), reclaiming the real-life tragedy and story of human resilience — and,...
While it’s a fictionalized, gender-switched reinvention only loosely inspired by Flight 571, Showtime’s Yellowjackets has paradoxically made a bigger cultural splash than either of those films, with its genre mashup of horror, mystery and mordant humor.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona, who established his disaster/survival movie bona fides with the tsunami thriller The Impossible, now weighs in with the Netflix feature, Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la Nieve), reclaiming the real-life tragedy and story of human resilience — and,...
- 9/14/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed deep in the Andes, en route to Chile. The 45 passengers included the Old Christian Rugby team, friends, and family. 29 of them initially survived. A whole 72 days later, only 16 lived to tell the tale. And told they did in a carefully composed chronicle authored with journalist Pablo Vierci. Spanish director J. A. Bayona made a film bearing the same title, Society of the Snow, in collaboration with Vierci to bring this monumental survival tale to the Netflix screens, big and small. As the closing title of this year’s Venice Film Festival, it reaffirms the need for togetherness in the face of insurmountable dangers.
The snow-covered Andes are an emanation of the sublime: shiny silver, vast, perilous. Captured in wide-lens long shots, they appear foreign and impossible-to-touch, so when the passengers emerge from under the debris, this landscape’s infinitude overcomes all hope. Making home...
The snow-covered Andes are an emanation of the sublime: shiny silver, vast, perilous. Captured in wide-lens long shots, they appear foreign and impossible-to-touch, so when the passengers emerge from under the debris, this landscape’s infinitude overcomes all hope. Making home...
- 9/9/2023
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
Frank Marshall’s film “Alive” has never exactly been a classic, but for a certain bracket of moviegoers who saw it in 1993, it remains a vivid memory. A heart-in-mouth recreation of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash — from which 16 people eventually survived 72 days stranded in a remote, snowy stretch of the Andes in western Argentina, while 29 perished — it visualized the events past the remit of worldwide news reports and magazine stories. For those of us too young to remember, it became our first point of contact with the saga, triggering countless aerophobic nightmares and “what would you do” discussions relating to its most lurid details.
“Alive” was well enough made and well enough acted to stick, yet it never felt ideal that such preppy all-American actors as Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton, speaking in Yank-accented English, became the faces of this South American story in the popular imagination. That’s...
“Alive” was well enough made and well enough acted to stick, yet it never felt ideal that such preppy all-American actors as Ethan Hawke and Josh Hamilton, speaking in Yank-accented English, became the faces of this South American story in the popular imagination. That’s...
- 9/9/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The story of the harrowing 1972 crash of the airplane carrying members of the Uruguay Rugby team in the remote snowy mountains of Argentina has been told cinematically a few times before. There was a rather crass version released in America as Survive! in 1976, and later a notable take on the story from director Frank Marshall called Alive through Disney Studios and starring Ethan Hawke and others in 1993.
But now with Netflix’s Society of the Snow, director J.A. Bayona, who has previously found compelling stories depicting the will to survive in unspeakable human disasters, has made his own version of events of the half-century old story. The director of the 2012 The Impossible about tourists and locals caught in a killer tsunami in Thailand has taken a different approach here and based this stunning account on Pablo Vierci’s novel about it that was written 36 years after the actual crash. Bayona...
But now with Netflix’s Society of the Snow, director J.A. Bayona, who has previously found compelling stories depicting the will to survive in unspeakable human disasters, has made his own version of events of the half-century old story. The director of the 2012 The Impossible about tourists and locals caught in a killer tsunami in Thailand has taken a different approach here and based this stunning account on Pablo Vierci’s novel about it that was written 36 years after the actual crash. Bayona...
- 9/9/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Spanish director J.A. Bayona has gone from prehistoric blockbusters with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and mega-budget trips to Mordor with Amazon’s The Rings of Power (he directed the first two episodes). Now, he returns with something a little different. Society of the Snow, a survival thriller about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book, comes from Netflix and is set to close the 2023 Venice Film Festival out of competition on Saturday. But it also marks the director’s return to his native Spanish language for the first time in 16 years, since his 2007 breakout The Orphanage.
The disaster, which saw a plane of 45 mostly young rugby players from Uruguay crash in the Andes, with only 16 people surviving after 72 days in the snowy environment and after having been forced to take extreme measures — including cannibalism — to stay alive, has been put to screen before (most notably...
The disaster, which saw a plane of 45 mostly young rugby players from Uruguay crash in the Andes, with only 16 people surviving after 72 days in the snowy environment and after having been forced to take extreme measures — including cannibalism — to stay alive, has been put to screen before (most notably...
- 9/8/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With fall festival season on the horizon, Netflix has unveiled the first teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona’s latest project, “Society of the Snow.” The survival drama, based on the true story of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972, will have its world premiere as the Venice Film Festival’s closing night film on September 9.
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
From director J.A. Bayona, the visionary filmmaker behind The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, comes the Netflix survival thriller Society of the Snow, which is based on both true events and the same-titled book by Pablo Vierci.
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival as the closing night film on September 9, 2023 and follow in the Pearl’s section at San Sebastian Film Festival.
Watch the official teaser trailer below and expect a Netflix premiere date soon.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt,...
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival as the closing night film on September 9, 2023 and follow in the Pearl’s section at San Sebastian Film Festival.
Watch the official teaser trailer below and expect a Netflix premiere date soon.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident.
Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The film’s cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt,...
- 8/24/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
J.A. Bayona is taking on the almost-impossible true story of a 1972 plane crash.
The “Impossible” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” director helms Netflix film “Society of the Snow,” based on Pablo Vierci’s 2008 nonfiction book of the same name. Bayona co-wrote the script with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte, Felipe Otaño, Andy Pruss, Blas Polidori, Felipe Ramusio, and Simón Hempe.
The film’s story was previously...
The “Impossible” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” director helms Netflix film “Society of the Snow,” based on Pablo Vierci’s 2008 nonfiction book of the same name. Bayona co-wrote the script with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte, Felipe Otaño, Andy Pruss, Blas Polidori, Felipe Ramusio, and Simón Hempe.
The film’s story was previously...
- 8/24/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Society of the Snow: Netflix releases an ominous teaser based on a remarkable true story of survival
In 1993, Frank Marshall released the film, Alive, which was based on the extraordinary true story of a Uruguayan rugby team battling for survival after their plane had crashed in the Andes. The movie starred Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, and Josh Hamilton. Now, J.A. Bayona, the director of The Impossible and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, brings us a new film based on the book Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story about the same events.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at...
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at...
- 8/24/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Spain’s J.A. Bayona has carved a niche for himself in survivalist drama, starting with 2012’s The Impossible, in which a family’s dream trip to Thailand becomes a nightmare when a tsunami destroys their luxury resort. It was based on a true story, unlike 2018’s Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, which nevertheless featured human beings facing unimaginable odds when confronted by a terrifying new breed of carnivorous dinosaurs.
With his new Netflix production Society of the Snow, Bayona is back in the real world again, telling a story that might be his most extraordinary yet. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, it charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when...
With his new Netflix production Society of the Snow, Bayona is back in the real world again, telling a story that might be his most extraordinary yet. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, it charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when...
- 8/24/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Venice International Film Festival has announced which film will be closing the event in September.
La Sociedad de la nieve (‘Society of the Snow’), a story of survival in extreme conditions, will be screened on Saturday 9 September in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido di Venezia – the screening to be held after the Festival’s awards are handed out.
The film is directed by J.A. Bayona and tells the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which, in 1972, had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, and crashed in the heart of the Andes.
Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they had to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast of the film includes Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Esteban Kukuriczka and Tomas Wolf.
La Sociedad de la nieve (‘Society of the Snow’), a story of survival in extreme conditions, will be screened on Saturday 9 September in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido di Venezia – the screening to be held after the Festival’s awards are handed out.
The film is directed by J.A. Bayona and tells the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which, in 1972, had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, and crashed in the heart of the Andes.
Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they had to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The cast of the film includes Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Esteban Kukuriczka and Tomas Wolf.
- 7/22/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival will close with the world premiere of J. A. Bayona’s Netflix survival thriller La Sociedad De La Nieve (Society Of The Snow).
The latest film from The Orphanage and The Impossible director charts the iconic true story of a 1970s rugby team whose plane crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survived the crash find themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments. The story was told by Frank Marshall in 1993 pic Alive.
The Out Of Competition screening will take place September 9 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema after the awards ceremony.
Starring in the Spanish-language film are Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Esteban Kukuriczka and Tomas Wolf.
Pic is produced by Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida and J.A. Bayona. Screenplay comes from J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego from the novel by Pablo Vierci.
The latest film from The Orphanage and The Impossible director charts the iconic true story of a 1970s rugby team whose plane crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survived the crash find themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments. The story was told by Frank Marshall in 1993 pic Alive.
The Out Of Competition screening will take place September 9 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema after the awards ceremony.
Starring in the Spanish-language film are Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Esteban Kukuriczka and Tomas Wolf.
Pic is produced by Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida and J.A. Bayona. Screenplay comes from J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego from the novel by Pablo Vierci.
- 7/22/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Spanish director J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow,” a reconstruction of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes that forced survivors to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, has been set as the Venice Film Festival’s closing film.
The deeply immersive Spanish-language saga is a Netflix original film shot in Andalusia’s Sierra Nevada, mainland Spain’s highest mountain range, using a 300-person crew. “Society of the Snow” will world premiere on the Lido out of competition on Sept. 9. Its official screening will be held in the Palazzo del Cinema after the awards ceremony.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to bring Montevideo’s Old Christians Rugby Club team to Chile, crashed at an altitude of 11,712 feet in the Andes. Of its 45 passengers – which consisted mostly of the rugby team, friends and family – only 29 survived. Without food, the survivors, who belonged to Uruguay’s elite, were forced...
The deeply immersive Spanish-language saga is a Netflix original film shot in Andalusia’s Sierra Nevada, mainland Spain’s highest mountain range, using a 300-person crew. “Society of the Snow” will world premiere on the Lido out of competition on Sept. 9. Its official screening will be held in the Palazzo del Cinema after the awards ceremony.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to bring Montevideo’s Old Christians Rugby Club team to Chile, crashed at an altitude of 11,712 feet in the Andes. Of its 45 passengers – which consisted mostly of the rugby team, friends and family – only 29 survived. Without food, the survivors, who belonged to Uruguay’s elite, were forced...
- 7/22/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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