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‘Free Solo’ Directors Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin Set Amazon Plane Crash Survival Story as Next Doc (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Free Solo’ directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are working on a Nat Geo documentary about children who survived a plane crash in the Amazon
The feature docu will tell the story of the struggle for survival of the four children — who ranged in age from 11 months to 13 years — in the guerilla-held jungles of Colombia after a plane they were aboard crashed and killed their mother. Since their film “Free Solo” won the Oscar in 2019 for best documentary feature, the pair have worked with Nat Geo on several nonfiction projects including “The Rescue” and most recently the docuseries “Photographer.” “Chai and Jimmy’s virtuosic approach to telling stories about people who push the limits of human potential — Alex Honnold in ‘Free Solo’ and the cave divers in ‘The Rescue’ — will be on full display in ‘Lost in the Amazon,'” says National Geographic exec VP of Documentary Films Carolyn Bernstein.
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