Society of the Snow
J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’ Sweeps Platino Awards as Filmmaker Offers Support to Argentina
J.A. Bayona’s Netflix epic Society of the Snow swept Saturday night’s Platino Awards, picking up a total of six trophies including the top award of the night for best Ibero-American fiction film. Bayona’s film follows the tragic events that take place after Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, […]
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Netflix Adds Cesc Gay-Directed Drama ’53 Domingos’ to Spanish Film Slate
Netflix will produce and release 53 Domingos, the new film from Spanish director Cesc Gay, an adaptation of his own award-winning theater play. The dramedy follows three brothers who meet up to discuss what to do with their octogenarian father who has started behaving oddly. As they debate whether to put him in a nursing […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Chilling Survival Story ‘Alive’ Landed in Theaters 31 Years Ago
More than three decades before Netflix’s Society of the Snow, which revisits the true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, Alive made an indelible impact. Frank Marshall directed the 1993 movie that was produced by his wife, Kathleen Kennedy, and focuses on the Uruguay rugby team’s chartered flight that crashed en route to a […]
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J.A. Bayona on His 10-Year Journey to Bring ‘Society of the Snow’ to the Screen
Quietly, J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow has become a contender in this year’s Oscar race. The Netflix drama made the Oscars shortlist in four categories: best international feature (for Spain), makeup and hairstyling, original score and visual effects. Since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year, the true-life tale of the […]
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“It Was Less About the Action and More About the Reflection”: ‘THR Presents Live’ at EnergaCamerimage With the ’Society of the Snow’ Filmmakers
In director J.A. Bayona and cinematographer Pedro Luque’s new film Society of the Snow, the filmmakers set out to create an ambitious adaptation of a book (of the same name) about the 1972 Uruguayan Andes flight disaster. The nonfiction book, which was written 40 years after the crash, documents the accounts of the 16 survivors […]
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Transgender Drama ‘20,000 Species of Bees’ Leads Spain’s Goya Awards With 15 Nominations
Spanish director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature, 20,000 Species of Bees, a touching and tender drama about an 8-year-old transgender child who begins to transition, is the frontrunner for the 2024 Goya Awards, the Spanish film academy’s equivalent to the Oscars. The film, which won its young star Sofía Otero the Silver Bear for best […]
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Oscars: Spain Picks J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’ for International Feature Category
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 […]
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‘Society of the Snow’ Review: J.A. Bayona Blends Visceral Action With Existential Despair in Overlong but Affecting Survival Thriller
The 1972 crash in the Andes of a charter flight from Uruguay and the harrowing ordeal of its survivors get intense treatment in this Spanish-language feature from Netflix.
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Venice Rising Star: Enzo Vogrincic on Going to the Limits for J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’
There are times, as a young actor, that you might start to question your career decisions. Like, for example, when you find yourself buried up to your chin in snow, your head pressed up against the fuselage of a plane and your director starts covering your mouth and nose in even more snow, so much […]
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