The new audiovisual proposal of the award-winning Spanish filmmaker JA Bayonne‘The Snow Society’ has been one of the three feature films chosen by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences that will compete to represent Spain in the next edition of the Oscar awards. The film, which has not yet been released, opts to be the country’s candidacy to be one of the nominated for the Best International Film award.
After directing the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerthe director arrives with his fifth feature film, and the first to be shot in Spanish in sixteen with which he narrates a heartbreaking story based on real events and based on the novel by Pablo Vierci. The film recreates the tragic plane crash that took place in 1972 and in which only 29 of the 45 passengers on board the flight survived.
The flight number 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes and the plot of the feature film focuses on the survivors who were trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet. The feature film follows their fight to survive and shows some scenes in which they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive. In addition, the frames of the film show spectacular scenery, showing a faithful image of the events that occurred because they filmed in different locations in the Andes including The Valley of Tears, real location where the story happened. Although it was also recorded in other snowy areas such as Sierra Nevada, in Andalusia and Montevideo, in Uruguay.
Where and when to see ‘The Snow Society’
Despite the fact that Netflix has already revealed the first official preview of ‘The Snow Society’, from the creator of ‘The Impossible’ and ‘The Orphanage’, which will be in charge of closing the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival on September 9, It does not yet have a release date announced. However, it is known that the film will be released on the small screen and can be seen on the Platform of streaming from Netflix.
Therefore, those who want to enjoy the work will have to subscribe to the service of streaming which has a price that starts from 5.94 euros per month for the basic plan with ads and reaches 17.99 euros per month for the premium plan.
Source: Lasexta
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