Society of the Snow

Society of the Snow (Spanish: La sociedad de la nieve) is an upcoming survival thriller film directed by J. A. Bayona about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster. The film is an adaptation of the book La sociedad de la nieve (The Snow Society: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story) by Pablo Vierci, which documents accounts of all 16 survivors of the crash, many of whom Vierci knew from childhood. The cast is composed of Uruguayan and Argentine actors, most of whom are newcomers.