Endurance
Feature Documentary • 2024 • IMDb
Role: Set Decorator (Hillary)
PD: Tye Whipple
Dir. Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
For: National Geographic
Maritime Heritage Trust locates Shackleton's shipwrecked Endurance near Antarctica in 1915. Shackleton and 27 crew survive incredible journey to South Georgia to seek rescue after ship sinks, showcasing human resilience against all odds.
Starring: Ernest Shackleton (archive footage), John Shears, Mensun Bound
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Filmed in Los Angeles
Premiered at BFI London Film Festival 2024
BTS photos:
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The Academy Award–winning husband-and-wife directors (Free Solo) explain how they recreated the "greatest survival story ever told" for their new Nat Geo documentary | The Hollywood Reporter
Interviewer: You also shot reenactments — in both Los Angeles and Iceland — that can be hard to distinguish from that footage. Why were they necessary?
Vasarhelyi: There’s a fundamental constraint in the original Shackleton story, where once they hit the water in the three boats [to head to Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean], there was no footage or photographs. So everyone who’s told the story has had to tackle that part of it. We had Burberry recreate the original outfits they made for the expedition, using the same patterns and the same samples of leather.
‘Endurance’ Explorers and Filmmakers on Capturing the Shipwreck’s ‘Holy Grail’ Discovery | Variety