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Eating up Sundance Docs: Zeitgeist Lands ‘Stranded’

Less than a week after picking up the Grand Jury Prize winner (Trouble The Water) in the docu category, Zeitgeist Films have now picked up the harrowing true story that was that basis for that movie (Alive) that gave plenty of food for thought.

Less than a week after picking up the Grand Jury Prize winner (Trouble The Water) in the docu category, Zeitgeist Films have now picked up the harrowing true story that was that basis for that movie (Alive) that gave plenty of food for thought. 

Having received plenty of kudos, Gonzalo Arijon’s Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains speaks with the survivors of the infamous plane crash in the South American Andes that took place 35 years ago. This profiles the survivors, who subsisted the ten weeks in the freezing weather by consuming the remains of those who died after the plane went down.

Zeitgeist will preem the doc at the Film Forum on October 22, 2008 and follows this with a larger expansion.  

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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