THE DOCUMENTARY SERIES WILL HAVE ITS GLOBAL PREMIERE IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT THE SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Beyond Society, the documentary seriescreated by J.A. Bayona and Carlos Torresthat explores what happened after the survivors of Flight 571 were rescued from the Andes, will premiere globally on Netflix onDecember 18.
The project, directed byCarlos Torresand produced byJ.A. Bayona,Sandra Hermida, andBelén Atienza, picks up where the filmSociety of the Snowleaves off. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, won twelve Goya Awards, and received two Academy Award nominations, including Best International Feature Film. It also won the Audience Award in the Perlak section of the 2023 San Sebastián International Film Festival. This non-fiction series explores what happened after the rescue, when the survivors returned home and reunited with the families of those who did not make it back.
The three-episode documentary series is a gripping account that brings together, for the first time, the testimonies ofthe accident survivors, the families of those who did not return, authorsPiers Paul Read(Alive) andPablo Vierci(Society of the Snow), and the filmmakers who have brought this story to the big screen, includingFrank Marshall(Alive) andJ.A. Bayonahimself (Society of the Snow).
The story of Flight 571 did not end on the day the survivors were rescued from the Andes. For them, and for the families of those who did not return, the hardest part was about to begin. Whilst silence reigned amongst those directly involved, the rest of the world continued to try to understand what had happened through books, films and documentaries. But how does one rebuild a life after such a tragedy?
