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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!
Transcript
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]