Society of the Snow

Society of the Snow is a 2023 survival thriller film directed by J. A. Bayona about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster. It is an adaptation of Pablo Vierci's book of the same name, which documents accounts of all 16 survivors of the crash, many of whom Vierci knew from childhood. The cast is composed of Uruguayan and Argentine actors, most of whom are newcomers. The film closed the 80th Venice International Film Festival, in an Out of Competition slot. It is scheduled to be released theatrically on 15 December 2023 before streaming on Netflix on 4 January 2024. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Cast The cast is as follows: Production Bayona discovered Vierci's book while researching for his 2012 film The Impossible, and bought the rights for the book at the end of shooting The Impossible. The filmmakers recorded more than 100 hours of interviews with all of the living survivors. The actors had contact with the survivors and the families of the victims. Society of the Snow was announced in November 2021. Filming took place in Sierra Nevada, Spain; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Chile and Argentina in the Andes, including the actual crash site. The production had 138 shooting days. Its budget was reported to be more than €65 million.