'Lost in the Jungle' filmmakers praise children at the center of their story

Oscar-Winner Chai Vasarhelyi Details Making Nat Geo Doc ‘Lost in the Jungle’: ‘The Most Complicated Film I’ve Ever Made in Terms of Access’

In “Lost in the Jungle,” Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”) teamed with Colombian filmmaker Juan Camilo Cruz to tell the story of four Indigenous siblings, aged 13, 9, 5 and 11 months who managed to stay alive for 40 days in remote part of the Colombian rainforest after the Cessna aircraft they were on crashed and killed their mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, and the plane’s pilot. The film, which premiered last month at the …

‘Lost in the Jungle’: A Real-Life Thriller in Documentary Form

The movie peels back the layers of a headline story to find a complex tale, centuries in the making.

'Lost in the Jungle' filmmakers praise children at the center of their story

They survived 40 days deep in the Colombian jungle. Now the children who survived a plane crash and harrowing conditions are telling their story. "Lost in the Jungle" premieres on National Geographic Sept. 12 and streams on Disney+ and Hulu the next day.

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Lost in the Jungle’ on Disney+, a superb...

This is the third, and likely best doc about four children who improbably survived a plane crash in the Amazon, and lived alone in the jungle for 40 days.