Four Young Children Surviving a Plane Crash and the Forty Days That Followed in The Colombian Jungle. It seems like an unlikely story, but it really happened just about two years ago. The Children Talk Extensively About Their Experiences for the First Time in A New Documentary.
It is May 1 When a small plane with four children and three adults crashes over the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. The three adults, including the 33-year-old mother of the children, are killed. Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tién (4) and Cristin (11 Months) Survive the Crash, But Are Only Found After Forty Days. They are then dehydrated, starved and exhausted.
The Documentary Lost In The Jungle by National Geographic Consists of Reconstructions and Interviews with Family Members, Rescuers and the Children. They talk about their experiences and how they survived in the jungle. The children are not show on screen Until the Last Few Minutes. Their voices are accompanied by animation.
“In our view, the use of animation, the most respectful way to bring the children’s traumatic experiences to life,” producer and director Chai Vasarhelyi Tells Nu.nl was. For the Documentary, The Makers Worked Closely with Professionals Who Assisted the Children in Processing the Events.
Lost in the Jungle is not the first documentary or film about the events of 2023, but it is the first from the perspective of the children. “It was very important to us that the children would tell their memories in their own words, because it is their story,” Says vasarhelyi.
Trailer Lost in The Jungle
Emmy and Bafta Winner Juan Camilo Cruz is also Involved in the Documentary. For the colombian director and producer, IT was important to tell viewers more about his country. “Colombians live in a country full of problems, Differences and conflicts. For me, the documentary was an opportunity to address thesis topics, but at the same time bring a story of hope.”
The Documentary Shows The Deep Drust Between the Government and The Indigenous Tribes, Who Live in Great Poverty and Feel Abandoned. Both a Group of Soldiers and Members of the Huitoto Tribe – to which the Children Belong – Go in Search of the Four in the Jungle. But year of tension stand in the way of cooperation.
After Days of Searching, The Realization Comes That They Have A Common Goal. And then the Similarities Turn Out to Be Greater Than The Differences. “We All Belonged to the Same Group, Only We Wore Different Clothes,” Says One of the Soldiers. Camilo Cruz Calls It “A Beautiful Message in A Country That Is So Polarized”.
Another Theme in the Documentary is the Relationship between Magdalena and Manuel, The Parents of the Children. The Makers Wanted to Tell the Story of Magdalena, Who was a Victim of Domestic Violence. It explains why the mother and her four young children were on the plane. But it also tells something more about the inner conflict that the eldest daughter lesy probably experientiary in the jungle. “It must have leg a big dilemma for her: Returning to a violent father or finding a way to escape and leave her brother and sisters to their fate,” Says vasarhelyi.
In The Journey Through The Jungle – The Children Walk 3.6 Kilometers Through The Dense Area With Wild Cats, Snakes and Scorpions – The Exhausted and Desperate Lesy Thought Away Away. “I wanted to leave them Behind and Continue Alone,” The Thirteen-Year-old Girl Admits in the Documentary. But she can’t. And so shestays with her Sisters and Brother.
Baby survived on water from a Bottle Cap
The search for the children is hampered by the fact that they remain in motion. “It was like looking for a flea in an immense carpet,” Says a Soldier. Meanwhile, The Children’s Family is very worried. In Addition to the Presence of Dangerous Animals (Such As Poisonous Snakes), Very Little Food Can Be Found in the Jungle. And how can the young child Cristin Survive Without Baby Food? It later becomes clear that the eleven-month-old baby survived on water, which lesy cool her from a bottle cap.
When the children are found after forty days in the jungle, it is clear that it should not have tasks longer. They are severely emaciated and severely weakenend. When one of the rescuers asks lesy if she has any Idea how long they have bone missing, she thinks it has leg Eight or ten days.
In The Last Few Minutes of the Documentary We See the Four Children Briefly On Screen. “The images of the children at the moment they are found are QUITE SHOCKING,” Says Vasarhelyi. “We Therefore Wanted to Show How they have recovered and are Finding Their Own Way in the World.”