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‘The Treasure Hunter’ Filmmaker on Following His Friend Into the Heart of Darkness: ‘Many Times I Put the Camera Down, and Hugged Him’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Giacomo Gex’s “The Treasure Hunter” follows the director’s best friend, Jack, as he searches for treasure in the Philippines.
According to local legend, during World War II the Japanese Army took booty they had looted from across South-East Asia to the Philippines and buried it at various locations. “I am not someone who’s filmed in warzones or extreme conditions, but I have been in potentially dangerous situations,” Gex tells Variety, sitting on the quay in Thessaloniki, a Greek port city overlooking the Aegean Sea. “I hadn’t started filming him yet, but he was telling me about the story and I saw there was something about him that was extremely compelling, and even deeper than Jack, because he’s obviously an older man, and he brought a far greater seriousness to it, because there’s one thing – a young guy running around the jungle because he’s passionate about treasure – and another thing is this middle-aged, or more than middle-aged man, with an entire family, who’s putting his life on the line and taking big economical risks for this treasure.
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