John Battsek is one of the most successful producers in feature documentary filmmaking. Starting with Academy Award winning One Day In September which Battsek conceived and produced, he has since been responsible for some of the most acclaimed documentaries in recent years. Their film Meru won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.
Consistently over the past 20 years, Chin has led or participated in cutting-edge climbing and ski mountaineering expeditions to all seven continents and made the first and only American ski descent from the summit of Mount Everest. He has worked with many of the greatest explorers, adventurers and athletes of our time, documenting their exploits in the most challenging conditions and locations in the world. He has garnered numerous awards shooting on assignment for publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Outside Magazine, and has directed commercial work for a wide range of clients, including Apple, Chase, Pirelli and The North Face.
The Rescue is a dramatic and emotional retelling of one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times. The film keeps viewers on the edge of their seats as it shines a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys. In the tradition of their earlier films Free Solo and Meru, Vasarhelyi and Chin document a profoundly daring physical feat, laying bare the details of the seemingly impossible rescue.
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He has led and documented cutting edge expeditions around the world for over 20 years. He has climbed and skied Mount Everest from the summit and made the coveted first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. His photographs have graced the covers of National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Magazine. Their film Meruwon the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature. Their latest documentary Free Solowon a BAFTA® and the Academy® Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019, as well as seven Emmy® awards. Jimmy splits his time between New York City and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with Chai, their daughter, Marina, and son, James.
After winning best documentary feature at the 2019 Oscars for their film Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are back with their new documentary, The Rescue. Totally amazed by the skills and astonishing modesty of Rick and the rest of team – thank God for such amazing people. One of the divers in “The Rescue.” The film includes some re-enactments at Pinewood Studios in Britain.
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Following Initial Flight Training he assessed to become a Special Tactics Officer and was selected to cross train. In 2018 he received the Star of Courage, Australia’s second highest civilian award for bravery, and the Medal of the Order of Australia for his role in the Thailand cave rescue. Harry and his colleagues have explored caves to 245m depth, and shipwrecks to over 150m, in dives lasting over 16 hours.
For “The Rescue,” National Geographic, which financed the film, had the rights to the British divers, a ragtag group of mostly middle-aged men who happen to be the best amateur cave divers in the world. While the rescue effort was a global one, without the divers the boys probably would not have survived. National Geographic Documentary Films is committed to bringing the world premium, feature documentaries that cover timely, provocative and globally relevant stories from the very best documentary filmmakers in the world. National Geographic Documentary Films is a division of National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between Disney and the National Geographic Society. NGP returns 27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration, conservation and education.
He learned his trade-craft in the cold murky sumps of North Yorkshire, England in the early 1990s, where side-mount solo cave diving was the norm. From these solid foundations he quickly progressed to more technical cave diving, often requiring dive times of 20 hours or more. This culminated in his leadership of the international dive team to achieve World Record Dive penetration distances in 2010, 2011 and 2013 in Spain.
If documentary films like this fascinate you, you must watch ‘The Rescue.’ Here’s everything you need to know about it. The Rescuechronicles the against-all-odds story of the 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin reveal the perilous world of cave diving, bravery of the rescuers, and dedication of a community that overcame insurmountable odds to save these young boys. The Rescue chronicles the against-all-odds story of the 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave.
This documentary really said “fuck you Elon Musk, respectfully” without actually saying it and honestly, bonus half star for that. You’ll need your MyIDA login to join us for in-person Los Angeles screenings and to access on-demand films. The Rescue’s recreations of the lifesaving dives are so intense, beautiful, and terrifying that you might be tricked into believing it’s the real thing. “It’s a bittersweet thing,” says Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, who directed The Rescue alongside her husband, Jimmy Chin. “Because at once it’s incredibly hopeful, but then you remember that the poignancy of the story only become stronger through the pandemic because if we all could be our best selves, you’d be in a very different place when we think about the community’s well-being.” “What we wanted to do all along when we started the documentary was to sort of demonstrate what we actually did and what we went through when we were rescuing the boys,” said Stanton, 60, a retired British firefighter.
S. Military, Australia and China and other freelance divers from around the world. But, it was a squad of British civilians led by Rick Stanton and John Volanthen who took center stage because of their unique qualifications in such situations. In the summer of 2018, a short outing after soccer practice became a two-week saga of survival and a story that soon captured the world’s attention.
After The Rescue premiered last Friday, we Zoomed with Vasarhelyi and Chin to ask how they made what might go down as the best—if not the most human—documentary of the year. Below, we have an exclusive clip showing the initial rescue of four Thai workers who were also trapped in the cave. The documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi lives in fear of not telling a complete story. Those feelings were occupying large swaths of her brain back in May when she was finally able to travel to Thailand. The Rescue chronicles the efforts of an unlikely team of civilian cave diversto save a group of boys trapped in a waterlogged cave system. Jimmy Chin is an Academy® Award-winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and professional climber and skier.
Unfortunately, it’s unclear when The Rescue will be available on streaming. Right now, the only way to watch the movie is to check it out in theaters. You may know the story from the news but this documentary explains the details of how truly improbably this endeavor was, and the bravery required. While the narrative was a bit disjointed and scattershot, there are moments of transcendence to be found here.
‘The Rescue’ is releasing in select theaters all over the United States. Folks who love to watch movies in cinema halls are therefore in luck, and they can book their tickets on Fandango. Although it’s unclear when the film will be available on VOD platforms, we advise our readers to regularly check Google Play, Microsoft Store, Vudu, Redbox, and iTunes. The celebration soon turns into cries for help as a sudden flood blocks their way out. When worried parents begin to contact law enforcement authorities, it does not take long to connect the dots. Park officials discover the bikes left behind by the teenagers, and the gravity of the problem begins to dawn upon responsible authorities.
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