Behind the Scenes of Netflix's Society of the Snow

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It's time to go behind the scenes of the Netflix survival thriller movie Society of the Snow, directed by J. A. Bayona.  Society of the Snow Cast:  Enzo Vogrincic Roldán, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Tomas Wolf and Diego Ariel Vegezzi  Stream Society of the Snow January 4, 2024 on Netflix!

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:10 Society of the Snow is a movie that explores life, and

00:14 you cannot talk about life without talking about death.

00:17 It's not afraid of getting into those dark places to find light, to find love.

00:23 [FOREIGN]

00:33 But then in 2009, I read Society of the Snow, the book from Pablo Bierzi,

00:38 and I realized that the story was bigger than what I thought it was.

00:43 [FOREIGN]

00:45 And then I met the survivors, and after hours of interviews,

00:48 I realized that what hasn't been told is that part of the experience of those who

00:53 never had the chance to tell the story.

00:55 [FOREIGN]

01:02 When we told the survivors and the families of the victims the idea,

01:06 which was to play the story from a perspective that would put everybody

01:10 on the same level of importance, not only the survivors, but

01:13 also those who never came back.

01:15 Everybody was very supportive of the story, and

01:18 their help was fundamental to us.

01:20 It took us ten years to tell the story the right way, shot in Spanish,

01:26 using local actors and known faces to be as close as possible to the reality.

01:31 [FOREIGN]

01:41 [APPLAUSE]

01:44 [FOREIGN]

01:49 >> Those emotions make their work harder, but

01:52 at the same time, easier to get to the performance we were looking for.

01:56 We shot chronologically so they were able to be losing weight in front of camera.

02:01 [FOREIGN]

02:07 [MUSIC]

02:10 >> I wanted to move freely all the time.

02:13 I want to be able to tell the story in a very documentary style.

02:18 We went three times to shoot in the Andes to reproduce the exact geography on

02:22 the story, but also to explain the atmosphere, the cold, the hunger,

02:28 the loneliness.

02:29 [MUSIC]

02:32 We needed to tell the context.

02:33 You cannot understand this story if you don't tell the context.

02:38 [FOREIGN]

02:44 >> We had a lot of information, pictures.

02:47 The makeup team was able to talk with the survivors about the story,

02:51 to talk about the details.

02:53 I was all the time with the actors looking more for small gestures or

02:58 details that will tell the story, this idea that anything can happen on set.

03:03 [FOREIGN]

03:11 >> You're giving the audience the chance to feel it.

03:14 By feeling that empathy towards them, then we would be able to understand

03:19 what they went through and what they did in the mountain.

03:22 [FOREIGN]

03:28 >> I remember a beautiful line from the survivor.

03:30 He said, reality is not enough, only fantasy can explain the story.

03:37 So I believe that somehow through cinema we can explain better

03:44 the reality of what happened.

03:46 [FOREIGN]

03:56 [MUSIC]

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