After they won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019 for their thrilling Free Solo, directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin went underground—in a manner of speaking.They tunneled into the true-life story of kids trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for their filmmaking follow up, The Rescue, a documentary that has put the married couple back in contention for an Oscar nomination.Free Solo posed enormous cinematic challenges—capturing every angle of climber Alex Honnold’s daring ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan rock face without aid of ropes.
But if anything, The Rescue presented even greater obstacles.“So often in documentaries you come across people with tons of footage and no story,” Vasarhelyi says. “We had a great story and no footage.
Period.”A team of amateur cave divers from Britain and Australia assembled in 2018 to try to save the stranded children—members of a youth soccer club—and their coach.
But very little of the brave attempt had been documented on camera.“The cave is pitch black. The water is muddy. No civilians were allowed to film.
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