Interview With "Lost In The Jungle" Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Juan Camilo Cruz
The Next Best Picture Podcast
The Next Best Picture Podcast
4.2 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the directors for Lost in the Jungle. |
| 0:07.6 | Elizabeth Chai Fatsarhele and Juan Camillo Bruze. |
| 0:11.3 | When one of the tragedy or something, you have to tell a story. |
| 0:23.6 | The story is of your life. For a mentira, much things can happen. |
| 0:27.6 | Today, a avionetta, Cenza, 206, was dragged by the |
| 0:33.6 | cellba. |
| 0:34.6 | There are four children, 13, 9, 5 15, 11 months, and are |
| 0:37.8 | solos in the |
| 0:38.6 | selva. |
| 0:39.5 | It's determined an area of busk of 320 kilometers quadras. Well, my mind was like to a water in a a bird. Well, this is Daniel Howitt from Next Best Picture. Chai and Juan, thank you so much for your time today, talking about Lost in the Jungle. |
| 0:55.3 | It is such a fascinating documentary and really goes in some unexpected directions, which was |
| 1:01.0 | exciting. Let's start right at the beginning of the project. Obviously, this story was global |
| 1:04.6 | news in 2023, but how did you each get connected to this story of the plane crash? |
| 1:11.6 | You know, I'm Colombian, so I was here in Wobota when the story started to unfold. |
| 1:16.1 | You know, at the beginning was just the, well, just not the crash of a plane, you know, |
| 1:20.6 | which didn't brought that much of attention. |
| 1:22.4 | But once, you know, it was understood that there were for survivors and there were children, |
| 1:27.3 | became huge in Colombia. |
| 1:28.7 | So, of course, as a documentary filmmaker, I got very interested into it. |
| 1:32.4 | And once the kids arrived after the rescue and the indigenous rescue teams were in Bogota, |
| 1:38.4 | I started to reach out to them and try to find ways to get into the story. |
| 1:42.9 | And at the same time, you know, I am represented by WME and so is Chai and Little Monster. |
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