Clarissa Mazon Miranda

Collaborative conversations in filmmaking: a comparative look between the films Alive (1993) and Society of the Snow (2024)

Antonio Meneghetti Faculdade, Brazil

In October 1972, a rented airplane with 45 people, most of the players of a rugby team from Uruguay, fell in the Andes mountains and was not found until December of that year, with 16 people still alive. The real story is theme for a few books and two of them were adapted to movies. This research aims to compare these two adaptations to perceive the narrative strategies that are used in each movie to tell the same story and how these strategies might influence the point of view that we have towards the survivors of the story. To make these a more complete analysis, books who gave origin to the movies will also be studied. Society of Snow is based in a book of Pablo Vierci, friend of one of the survivors. Alive, is based on the homonymous book The Survivors, from Pier Paul Read, who interviewed some of the survivors. Also, two other books helped composing the script of the film of 2024: Miracle in the Andes, of Nando Parado and Coche Inciarte: Memoria de los Andes. The interest of this research is to understand how these adaptations composed the dialogues and narratives through means of the use of the narratives present in these books. As theoretical framework, we use Hutcheon (2013) and Fumagalli (2020), Cartmell (2022) on the thematic of adaptation; Jaeckle (2013) on the theme of dialogues for cinema; Welch (2018) and McVeigh and Miranda (2020) on the thematic of Latin American screenwriters.

In 2023, completed the Master en Guion Audiovisual of The Core Entertainment School (Spain) and the Certified in Filmmaking from National Film and TV School (UK). Holds a Ph.D. in Literature at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil) since 2018. Her PhD thesis explores the intersemiotic translation of novels into movie scripts. Holds a Master in Midiatic Communication at the same institution (2012) and a bachelor’s in journalism by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2005). Works as a lecturer for Antonio Meneghetti Faculdade; as PR and international affairs assistant for Fundação Antonio Meneghetti; as a journalist for the magazine Performance Líder, as cultural coordinator for the Recanto Maestro Youth Orchestra; and as a free-lancer screenwriter. Has worked as director, producer, and screenwriter of 2 feature documentaries and 10 short documentaries. It is a member of the Screenwriting Research Network, being part of its Executive Council as Early Career Researcher, and a member of the Association of Adaptation Studies.