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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Lost In The Jungle" Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Juan Camilo Cruz

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"Lost In The Jungle" is a documentary film about four siblings who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle after a plane crash, directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, and Juan Camilo Cruz. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival to positive reviews and is now available to stream online. Chai Vasarhelyi and Camilo Cruz were kind enough during the Telluride Film Festival to spend time speaking with us about their work and experiences making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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